Example sentences of "of [noun] million [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He explained that the Government 's original pledge last year of £55 million had been increased to £75 million , with a further £40 million funding to spearhead the regeneration of east Manchester . |
| 2 | Dyson-Hudson ( 1984 ) has also commented that since c. 1970 the equivalent of $US600 million has been given as development funds to Africa 's rangelands but has brought few rewards as far as more efficient and productive pastoralism is concerned . |
| 3 | A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose . |
| 4 | A grant of £1.3 million has been handed to the club by the Football Trust and a new 6,000 tier will take the capacity to 40,500 by August , 1994 . |
| 5 | US Treasury Under-Secretary David Mulford , who chaired the meeting , said afterwards that a total of $14,300 million had been pledged in financial support for 1990 and 1991 . |
| 6 | On reflection , does my right hon. Friend agree that precious police resources — the figure of £2 million has been mentioned — should not be used on vindictive , Soviet or Israeli-type show trials which are bound to be a travesty of British justice as practised by this country for a long time ? |
| 7 | Mr Robin said exceptional losses of £68.4 million had been incurred from property writedowns , the loss on a Swiss bond deal and restructuring costs . |
| 8 | I can also tell him that urban aid of £9.7 million has been made available over the years for homelessness projects in Scotland . |
| 9 | In his budget speech Babangida announced that a provision of $2,000 million had been allocated for external debt servicing in 1990 , which he considered to be " unsustainable " . |
| 10 | A negative external financing limit of £66 million has been set for the Post Office for the year 1992-93 . |
| 11 | A total of £1.5 million has been invested in new premises , plant and equipment both in Abu Dhabi and Dubai to service valves , wellheads , high speed rotating equipment and heavy frame turbine components . |
| 12 | Finance was available from the treasury , and by the end of 1987 the equivalent of $12 million had been allocated . |