Example sentences of "over [adj] million [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in 1958 , when over eight million households had television licences , the various trade associations formed the Film Industry Defence Organization ( FIDO ) in an attempt to ensure that none of the nation 's producers sold their films to television . |
| 2 | Over one million tonnes of agricultural related products pass over the quays in Belfast each year . |
| 3 | A joint Greenpeace/WWF petition in favour of the " world park " had raised over one million signatures . |
| 4 | Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million . |
| 5 | Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million . |
| 6 | Cells fitted with diamond windows have been operated at pressures of over one million atmospheres at the Carnegie Institute in Washington . |
| 7 | To meet the needs of over one million customers , British Gas South Western offers employee training which is second to none . |
| 8 | Cruzcampo has enjoyed some important successes in 1992 , with its pavilion at Expo being the most popular with over one million visitors . |
| 9 | The grant recognizes their ownership of a little over one million hectares in the Pastaza region , in the east of the country . |
| 10 | Over one million claimants were denied further guaranteed payments and the amount of relief was fixed by Public Assistance Committees on the basis of family resources . |
| 11 | German Brief , a monthly English language news-letter with a four-page weekly news update , is published by the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung Informationsdienste , a division of West Germany 's most respected daily and business newspapers with over one million readers . |
| 12 | Some UK sewage farms have run off sludge gas for years , and in China over one million digesters produce methane from human and animal sewage to provide gas for cooking . |
| 13 | In 1987 , over one million children were living in families with an unemployed head . |
| 14 | ‘ Rewards on her total over one million dollars , for offences that range from felony bank robbery to first degree murder . |
| 15 | I was never told exactly how much these tests cost , but I understand it was well over one million dollars and probably nearer two million . |
| 16 | RTE Radio 1 has over one million listeners daily , while 2FM has over 700,000 . |
| 17 | Since only 39 per cent of India 's population is literate , the government authorises the production of posters and other aids which are mailed to over one million addresses . |
| 18 | Since only 39 per cent of India 's population is literate , the government authorises the production of posters and other aids which are mailed to over one million addresses . |
| 19 | The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago . |
| 20 | This is one reason why over one million pensioners who would be entitled to supplementary pension are not claiming , although the benefits are a right , not a charity , and we all pay for them through our taxes . |
| 21 | In 1902 the Trans-Siberian railway carried well over one million passengers , and the statistics of their class breakdown are fascinating : |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman will know that the House was advised in the summer of a new scheme to assist people during periods of very cold weather — well over 1 million payments are expected to be made for the recent cold spell . |
| 23 | Trade during the war years declined from over 2.5 million tons in 1939 to just over 1 million tons in 1944 . |
| 24 | In the 1979 election the Labour and Conservative national party organizations are estimated to have each spent a little over 1 million pounds on the campaign , roughly the same amount expended in total by their candidates in the local campaigns . |
| 25 | On board will be the British-built instrument that will attempt to answer why the Sun 's outer atmosphere — the corona — is heated to over 1 million degrees , boiling off charged particles to produce the solar wind . |
| 26 | If these are instincts which human beings have inherited over several million years , any understanding clearly entails demonstrating how they are combined with the social and cultural relations of contemporary society . |
| 27 | They yielded over 68 million roubles by December 1921 . |
| 28 | We bought over 61 million lipsticks last year in the UK alone . |