Example sentences of "[num] million [noun pl] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They each have stringent but achievable targets such as a commitment that 99 per cent of deliveries will be case-accurate — no easy matter when ten million cases are delivered each week . |
| 2 | Ten million bats are born each summer in Bracken Cave , Texas . |
| 3 | During the next three years , nearly 10,000 million dollars were made available to Europe in ‘ Marshall Aid ’ , which not only enabled Europe to recover and increase goods and services by twenty-five per cent over that three years , but also ensured a market for American-made goods . |
| 4 | Over five million crimes were recorded last year , but the real total is certainly higher . |
| 5 | According to the official figures , in 1984 , 1 million women were registered unemployed , compared with 2.3 million men . |
| 6 | Over one million claimants were denied further guaranteed payments and the amount of relief was fixed by Public Assistance Committees on the basis of family resources . |
| 7 | Nearly four million animals were used each year for experiments , eighty per cent of which were rodents , which gave the activists a problem as rats do n't have good PR potential . |
| 8 | Approximately two million cars are sold each year in California — about the same number as registered annually in the UK . |
| 9 | Today , 2.5 million magnetrons are made each year for the microwave oven market . |