Example sentences of "million a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven million are already HIV infected in sub-Saharan Africa , increasing by over one million a year . |
| 2 | One estimate puts the cost in terms of sickness absence alone at over £700 million a year . |
| 3 | Soon InterCity were claiming that sales had doubled to 5 million a year . |
| 4 | Hamburg enjoys an extremely high level of film subsidy - approximately £6 million a year , or three times the sum available in Britain . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a world market of over £100 million a year in clean technology and I want to see British industry winning a much larger share of it . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Cecil Parkinson , the Transport Secretary , has told BR that all subsidies for commuter services on Network South East — currently £141 million a year — will be removed by March 1993 . |
| 7 | Tax-payers ' backing for the loss-making provincial operation , now £400 million a year , will be cut by 25 per cent in the next three years , according to Mr Parkinson . |
| 8 | Appearance money or guarantees previously were illegal — though not unknown — and under the new system it has been estimated that some top players ( Lendl and Boris Becker make around £1.5 million a year ) could increase their annual earnings by 40 per cent . |
| 9 | The environmental pressure group calculates that the wasted energy costs £12 million a year and generates nearly 200,000 tonnes a year of extra carbon dioxide ( the primary greenhouse-effect gas ) from power stations . |
| 10 | UNEP and others have estimated that it would cost approximately $4,500 million a year over the next 20 years to slow and stop desertification , and to begin to reclaim the land that we have already lost . |
| 11 | FoE made a number of recommendations on taxes , incentives and greater spending on research ( including the government 's Energy Efficiency Office , which , remarkably , given the nature of the times , saw its budget restricted to £15 million a year for two years in succession — a loss in real terms ) . |
| 12 | After a review of the state of research , the government decided , in 1988 , that it could not justify continued expenditure of £100 million a year on a project with such an elusive prospect of commercial return . |
| 13 | From 1990 there would be a core research and development programme costing £10 million a year , just enough , in the government 's view , to allow continued collaboration with the French and Germans on the European Fast Reactor ( EFR ) . |
| 14 | One man died in the 1977 protest at the Creys-Malville FBR site in France : the Kalkar fast reactor in West Germany is mothballed ( at a reputed cost of £30 million a year ) largely as a result of green agitation . |
| 15 | Fitting catalysts is expected to cost British motorists £800 million a year . |
| 16 | We have to find means of increasing , by £400 million a year the credit side of our balance of payments . |
| 17 | Total investment in the NFC in the years since privatization has totalled almost £700 million , whereas in state ownership investment never exceeded £25 million a year . |
| 18 | Now it 's finally open , nearly two years after De Niro first approached Nieporent with the idea , the Tribeca Bar and Grill will need to turn over more than £1.2 million a year just to break even , something that may prove difficult , given that the average bill for the restaurant 's simple fish and pasta dishes is around $40 a head . |
| 19 | Britain , with a defence budget of £1,500 million a year , was actually spending an even higher proportion of its wealth on arms — between 8 per cent and 10 per cent of the Gross National Product , a third of its tax revenue . |
| 20 | The product 's sales are heading for £1 million a year , benefiting from ecological concern over the kangaroo skin that traditionally covers soccer boots . |
| 21 | The average salary for the nearly 700 players on the 26 teams tops $1 million a year for the first time . |
| 22 | However , it is believed to be in the region of £15 million a year for the world-wide rights , plus a percentage of profits over and above that figure . |
| 23 | If FTC 's bid does guarantee UEFA a minimum of £15 million a year , it will work out at £1.25 million a game for the 12 matches in the eight-club , mini-league series , an experiment in making money that is certain to be continued next season , Premier League clubs will be glad to know . |
| 24 | With BBC TV and BSkyB joining forces to rival ITV 's £20 million a year bid for Premier League games , and another mysterious , well-funded satellite company lurking in the background , English football 's value to TV is now ‘ beyond the wildest dreams of any club chairman in the land , ’ says Jim Cadman . |
| 25 | But the true figure is much higher , with one London health authority estimating that its hospitals alone lose up to £1 million a year . |
| 26 | The churches fulfil a valuable social function which the government would otherwise have to meet , and the state receives about £100 million a year for levying and passing on the church tax . |
| 27 | SCOTTISH Ambulance Service fleet manager Ed Hodson believes he is on the way to knocking £1 million a year off fuel bills by gradually switching totally to diesel . |
| 28 | The savings on operating costs alone were immense , some experts putting it in the order of £2 million a year . |
| 29 | An estimated 3,000 prostitutes , many lured to the city from Eastern Europe on illegal visas with promises of glamorous jobs in nightclubs , turn over £52.6 million a year . |
| 30 | DisneyWorld alone can draw in 13 million a year . |