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 .
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