Example sentences of "of [adv] a million " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sukarno 's repressive nationalist regime led directly to the massacre of perhaps a million of his communist supporters , gross civil rights abuses , torture , the illegal invasion of East Timor , and the current police state . |
| 2 | It is as if somebody had slipped an extra sheet of paper between the pages of the book which now , at one point consists of perhaps a million pages , at another of a million and one . |
| 3 | It is one of over 4,000 genetic diseases , and in this country alone these affect the lives of nearly a million under 25s . |
| 4 | In the meantime , the UK is now the third largest producer of beef and veal in the EEC , though its production of about a million tonnes is only half of that of France and it is only seventh in the table of per capita consumption at 22.3kg per annum . |
| 5 | We have developed from the geocentric cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears , through the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo , to the modern picture in which the earth is a medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy , which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe . |
| 6 | ‘ He ripped off a firm of disreputable City stockbrokers to the tune of about a million pounds and spent it on high living — yachts , mistresses , that sort of thing . |
| 7 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Windows 3.1 is the biggest selling application of all time , with unit sales of around a million a month . |
| 8 | Sudan is Africa 's largest country with an area of almost a million square miles , ten times the size of Great Britain . |
| 9 | Ten years later there would be four hundred Americans with an annual income like hers , of over a million dollars . |
| 10 | He had lived quietly and unobtrusively for weeks behind Marble Arch , one of over a million foreigners in the British capital . |
| 11 | The emplacement of over a million tonnes of alkali-rich cementitious material into a saturated groundwater environment would be likely to make the groundwater more alkaline . |
| 12 | So we serve a population of over a million people . |
| 13 | The ‘ standing army ’ of over a million unemployed was mopped up during the first year of hostilities , and between 1939 and 1943 almost 3 million jobs were added to the labour market , including many jobs for women . |
| 14 | The water supply of over a million people living in the area are is contaminated by a range of pollutants , including heavy metals , and nitrates at concentrations of up to 25 times the permitted EC limits . |
| 15 | I would suggest even that since there is a surplus in C P D , of over a million pounds , that er , they are perfectly capable of funding their own studies . |