Example sentences of "[vb pp] [unc] million " in BNC.
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| 1 | Total expenditure was expected to grow by 24 per cent to P2,899 million , resulting in an overall budget surplus of P419,000,000 ; recurrent expenditure was set at P1,357 million , with 20 per cent of this allocated to education ; development expenditure totalled P1,286 million , with the largest allocations earmarked for roadbuilding , primary schools and village infrastructure ; on-lending to parastatals and so on totalled P339 million . |
| 2 | Speaking at the beginning of June the Minister reported that the debt from rent and service charge boycotts totalled R1,500 million . |
| 3 | Exports totalled US$1,275 million in 1990 , while imports totalled $1,050 million , giving a positive trade balance of $225 million . |
| 4 | Arrears to all creditors totalled US$52,000 million by the end of 1989 , up from US$41,000 million in 1988 . |
| 5 | ECU1,250 million were in the form of a new grant , but the package included ECU250 million of food aid and a ECU500 million ecu credit guarantee already earmarked for the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | In September the Bank 's Aid-to-India consortium had committed US$6,700 million to ease the country 's balance of payments crisis and help encourage public-sector reforms [ see p. 38439 ] . |
| 7 | Germany had committed DM60,000 million in aid to the Soviet Union since 1989 . |
| 8 | US intelligence analysts were said to have been divided on the purpose and implications of Iran 's reported US$2,000 million annual military spending . |
| 9 | The German Ministry for Research and Technology has committed DM18.1 million ( US$11.5 million ) over the next four years . |
| 10 | Tax cuts totalling F16,700 million , included F4,400 million worth of cuts in savings taxes and a further reduction of corporation tax on reinvested income , while distributed profits remained taxable at 42 per cent ; there was a reduction in the lower rate of value added tax ( VAT ) for medical goods from 5.5 to 2.1 per cent ( on Sept. 6 Bérégovoy had announced that the top rate of VAT would be cut from 28 to 25 per cent ) . |
| 11 | More than half the book is based on material from the ensuing trial , which resulted in six BCCI staff being sentenced to terms of up to 14 years and BCCI being fined US$14 million . |
| 12 | The bundle included C$4 million from trustee Joey Tanenbaum 's family , C$2 million from the province , and C$900,000 more from Ottawa . |
| 13 | Soft loans to support the programme would be provided by the Indian Renewable Energy Development Energy Agency , which had received US$200 million in aid . |
| 14 | On Aug. 4 Kazakh radio had reported that trade between Kazakhstan and the Chinese autonomous district of Ili Kazak had totalled US$122 million in the first four months of 1992 . |
| 15 | The company was owed I£180 million for supplies exported to Iraq since 1986 , and according to an announcement by O'Malley on Aug. 28 , 1990 , the group owed over I£450 million to 33 banks . |
| 16 | According to a survey by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) , Financing and External Debt of Developing Countries , published on July 11 , Latin American and Caribbean countries transferred US$15,000 million to creditors in 1989 , as against US$16,000 million in 1988 . |
| 17 | It looked at 1,800 projects in 113 countries , for which the Bank had lent US$138,000 million , and found that 37.5 per cent of the projects were regarded as failures , compared to 15 per cent in 1981 and 30 per cent in 1989 . |
| 18 | A loss of confidence by his bankers coupled with some damning judgments on his corporation 's business conduct culminated in the action by the National Australian Bank , which heads a syndicate of lenders owed A$880 million by the Bond organisation . |
| 19 | Without the adjustment , it had been estimated that the budget deficit would have exceeded L147,000,000 million , which was the level predicted by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in criticisms made at the time of the adoption of the 1990 budget in December 1989 [ see p. 37509 ] . |
| 20 | For their part Republicans were delighted with the outcome , and took the offensive against the Walsh investigations , whose costs had exceeded US$27 million without achieving a single conviction which was deemed watertight ; Senate minority leader Robert Dole of Kansas issued a statement on Sept. 16 calling for the Iran-contra inquest to be closed . |
| 21 | Kaifu promised to make efforts to reduce his country 's large trade surplus with South Korea — estimated to have exceeded US$6,000 million in 1990 — but he did not commit himself to any specific measures to achieve this . |
| 22 | Keating described the situation as " the recession that Australia had to have " in order to reduce its huge current-account deficit which had exceeded A$21,000 million in 1989/90 . |
| 23 | Foxley forecast a surge in foreign investment flows , which had totalled US$1,100 million in 1991 . |
| 24 | The reintegration programme , known as WIP ( Wissenschaftler-Integrationsprogramm ) , was originally given DM440 million ( US$250 million ) for four years . |
| 25 | Yesterday , Century Park Picture Corporation offered US$10 million ( £6.9 million ) in cash to acquire all the outstanding capital stock of International Broadcasting Corporation , the entertainment group . |
| 26 | You 've had US$40,000 million in the last 10 or 12 years . |
| 27 | In April the World Bank-sponsored Aid to Bangladesh Consortium promised US$1,800 million in soft loans and grants — far less than the US$2,500 million requested by the government — reportedly because of continuing concern over the government 's economic policies . |
| 28 | In return the Soviet Union exported US$156 million worth of goods to Canada . |
| 29 | Since its inception in 1991 it has had ECU2.9 million to spend in order to increase the knowledge of the culture and heritage of the Community countries and to support artistic innovation . |
| 30 | The Financial Times of May 16 reported that the Indian government had been offered US$1,200 million in suppliers credits by the Hinduja group , the London-based trading and financial company . |