Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] million [verb] be " in BNC.
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1 | MORE than £1.7 million has been shared out among victims of a child care scandal . |
2 | More than £15 million has been spent on a broad range of training measures . |
3 | The Pakistan government is hampered by lack of resources in launching any large-scale projects , and in the last 13 years less than $120 million has been ploughed into crop substitution programmes by foreign aid organisations . |
4 | Cumbria council said more than £7 million had been spent improving safety in five years . |
5 | We expect it to fall again in 1993 , although $200 million has been earmarked for growth projects . |
6 | At this factory an immense research and development programme is headed by electronics wizard Bob Podhrasky , and in recent years more than $3 million has been pumped into the never ending pursuit of treasure hunting 's Holy Grail … the ‘ perfect ’ machine . |
7 | In the past year , more than £6 million has been invested in new Edinburgh premises for HMSO . |
8 | More than £30 million has been committed in all . |
9 | Since its implementation , fines totalling more than £24 million have been imposed under the Act and clearly some airlines have adopted practices aimed at minimizing the number of penalties incurred . |
10 | In private , as much as £4 million has been discussed as a realistic figure . |