Example sentences of "[prep] [num] million [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1986 data destroyed the myth that the foreign kill rate was comparable to the US rate , and confirmed that the widely accepted official figure of 6 million dolphins killed by purse seiners over the past 30 years was a gross underestimate . |
| 2 | A telegram from the new Chair of the Central Bank , Viktor Gerashchenko , to local bank branches on July 28 had authorised them to finance the estimated debts of 1,190,000 million roubles accumulated between Russian state enterprises . |
| 3 | The bill provided for expenditure cuts of over 30,000 million kronor over the next three years in addition to cuts of 27,000 million kronor already announced in January ( the figure of 14,000 million kronor given on p. 38737 representing the net spending cut ) . |
| 4 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Out of a total of 15 million investment provided by a number of financial institutions , the SDA contributed £500,000 in the form of preference shares . |
| 5 | In January 1983 , the water content of reservoirs in South Africa had fallen to 50 per cent of its level at the same time last year , and the 1982 maize crop was 40 per cent lower than the record of 40 million tonnes harvested in 1981 . |
| 6 | Extrapolation from experimental data from one study on the infective dose in animals provided an estimate of 14 million organisms required to produce disease in human beings . |
| 7 | That 's an increase of four million households compared to 1979 . |
| 8 | Hodder offers an ‘ idealized ’ example of a company evaluating a project with an outflow of 1,000 million yen followed by an inflow of 200 million yen per annum for ten years . |
| 9 | On the positive side , production of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons has fallen 46 per cent since the peak year in 1988 ; bicycle production surpasses car production , with 95 million bikes built in 1990 , compared with 36 million cars ; and world petroleum production fell by 1 per cent in 1991 , continuing a downward trend since the record output of 62.7 million barrels in 1979 . |
| 10 | Says a company spokesman : ‘ The Game Boy success story is staggering , with 25 million machines sold worldwide by the end of last year . |
| 11 | Over the preceding week the Riksbank had spent 158,000 million kronor defending the currency ( as compared with 80,000 million kronor spent over the three-week September crisis ) , which represented virtually all Sweden 's foreign reserves . |
| 12 | With 250 million volumes sold annually , Mills and Boon is the source of a construction and perpetuation of a particular concept of female desire and sexuality that can always be assuaged through the consummation of a heterosexual romance . |
| 13 | With over 10 million users on 1.5 million computers connected by 1993 , finding your way around does need some formal system and help . |
| 14 | Even though the injury statistics are thought to under-estimate the problem by between 20 and 40 per cent , the known pedestrian accident rate — at 400 accidents per 100 million miles walked — is greater than that for car drivers . |
| 15 | It is estimated that up to one million Americans invested in shares — from millionaires to the ordinary man and woman in the street . |
| 16 | Revenue was expected to rise by around 40 per cent to 1,090,460 million forint compared with 1992 , while expenditure was expected to rise by around 30 per cent to 1,275,830 million forint . |
| 17 | That moment was watched by 750 million people gathered around television sets in more than seventy countries . |