Example sentences of "[noun] million over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this is an increase of £28 million over the figure for the previous year , Lord Hanson commented : ‘ We believe the recession has reached its nadir , but its effects will be felt longer than most anticipated , probably for another 12 months . ’ |
| 2 | SYLVESTER Stallone took a £1.2 million pay cut to save his latest movie after it went £15 million over budget . |
| 3 | ITT has invested £20 million over the past decade on the design of a television set that handles picture and sound signals in digital code , instead of the conventional analogue waveform . |
| 4 | BBC chiefs must cut costs by £20 million over the next six months after the discovery of an accounting mix-up . |
| 5 | With a total deal value of £960 million the fourth quarter was the strongest , showing an increase of £340 million over the third quarter but a rise of just £20 million over the corresponding period in the previous year . |
| 6 | The report also states that the university is to borrow £20 million over the next 25 years to finance the provision of 2,000 extra bed spaces for students by 1995 . |
| 7 | Owners has been reported as estimating that the benefits of the tie-up with Thomas Cook will be worth £20 million over the next two years . |
| 8 | It intends to spend £1 million over the next five years on this , and other polymer research . |
| 9 | The club 's financial performance has been shattered by the incurring of revenues expenditure approaching £1 million over a two-year period to make good various defects , including gas leaks , to the new Bedser Stand and Ken Barrington Centre . |
| 10 | Home shopping alone has spent £35 million over the past five years putting in computer systems . |
| 11 | The Department of Energy 's research station at Harwell estimates that industry could exploit a heat pump market of between £500 million and £1000 million over the next 10 to 15 years . |
| 12 | Following the government retreat over the terms of the Directive in 1988 it was estimated that Anglian would have to spend £60-£70 million over the following 10 years to clean up the water supplies of Bedford and Norwich , along with a total 25 supplies that had been subject to derogations . |
| 13 | The manifesto contains a promise to invest £6,300 million over the next three years in the trunk road and motorway network , with concentration on the building of bypasses , a further 40 of which will be opened by 1995 . |
| 14 | Conan suggests that Australia may have received £550 million from Britain in the period 1945–51 , South Africa perhaps £400 million over the same period . |
| 15 | O&Y has agreed to pay £400 million over several years but its bankers will have a say before any deal is ratified . |
| 16 | This rise in consumption will create a further increase in income in the next period of £1.2 million over and above the initial increase and this in turn will bring forth more consumption spending . |
| 17 | The Department of Defence announced on Jan. 11 , 1990 , that it was to streamline its weapons procurement system in a move to save $39,000 million over a five-year period ; the changes , it said , would involve some 42,000 job losses among the 600,000 staff currently engaged in some 15,000,000 transactions a year . |
| 18 | She rakes in £10 million over the past two years |
| 19 | ‘ This is a matter of considerable significance to us as three of the five districts in West Yorkshire ( Bradford , Kirklees and Leeds Metropolitan Districts ) have between them received an annual average of about £10 million over the last five years — a substantial figure . |
| 20 | The Bank 's commitment to fostering environmentally sound development projects was to be underscored by a pilot programme of concessional lending for projects which would yield benefits on matters of key international environmental concern , amounting to between $1,000 million and $1,200 million over the next three years . |
| 21 | Both women , who live in the same fashionable apartment block on New York 's Upper East Side , are now suing each other for nearly £7 million over the incident . |
| 22 | With a total deal value of £960 million the fourth quarter was the strongest , showing an increase of £340 million over the third quarter but a rise of just £20 million over the corresponding period in the previous year . |
| 23 | A further £12 million over the next three years will be made available for research into " clean coal " technology ( based largely on " topping cycle " gasification to reduce harmful emissions — see EDs 55 ; 64 ] . |
| 24 | The 3M company which makes floppy disks has saved around $300 million over a decade by halving the waste it produces — boosting its net income by around five per cent . |
| 25 | The scheme , costing £45 million over the next three years , will see the creation of children 's clubs , childminding facilities and extended classes after school and during long holidays . |
| 26 | In 1988/89 the Housing Corporation invested more than £1 billion — an increase of £80 million over the previous year — and approved 25,000 dwellings : 22 per cent more than in 1987/88 . |
| 27 | Under the electronics plan , government and industry ( including foreign firms in Prance like IBM ) should spend £12000 million over the next five years . |
| 28 | The appeal aims to raise £2 million over the next five years both to preserve the countryside and to finance education work in the area . |
| 29 | We have now licensed well over a hundred cable TV networks and this new industry expects to invest £3,000 million over the next five years . |
| 30 | Although Bush did not specify how much such assistance — which would be additional to the $203,000,000 already agreed — would amount to , some US officials suggested that it could measure more than $3,500 million over the next decade . |