Example sentences of "million [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By abolishing the composite rate tax in his 1991 Budget his successor Norman Lamont enabled 15 million savers on low earnings to gain at least a quarter more interest on bank and building society deposits . |
| 2 | A million hours of accident-free working by ICI workers brought a £1,000 windfall to a school in Middlesbrough . |
| 3 | Outside , a million splinters of light stream by in the Parisian murk . |
| 4 | The world seemed to shiver into a million splinters of prismatic colour , silent and fiery , so that they themselves seemed to become beings other than themselves , inhabitants of another planet , out of time . |
| 5 | Even after his £880 million purchase of British Sugar last year , the company still has a £300 million cash pile . |
| 6 | President George Bush on Jan. 29 unveiled a $1,520,000 million budget for fiscal 1993 . |
| 7 | We will put more of the Housing Corporation 's £2,000 million budget into Do-It-Yourself shared ownership . |
| 8 | Brailsford , the leading socialist authority on foreign affairs , wrote in 1920 of the peace settlement : " The worst offence was the subjection of over three million Germans to Czech rule . " |
| 9 | So the ordered structure of the Sun , with its retinue of planets , repeated what was occurring a million times around other similar stars of the same mass and density — what is known as ‘ main sequence ’ stars . |
| 10 | The warning came yesterday as Labour dismissed the announcement by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , of a £500 million rise in Scottish Office expenditure . |
| 11 | An government austerity programme which went into effect on June 1 raised rates for public utilities by up to 30 per cent and planned for a further devaluation of the colón and a C6,000 million reduction in public spending ( as at June 18 the official exchange rate was US$1.00=C88.8 ) . |
| 12 | According to Earth Report ( 1988 ) , some 100 million t of nutrient-rich silt were deposited annually in the pre-Aswan period but is now reduced to just a few tomes per year , necessitating extensive fertiliser use at considerable cost and , presumably , inviting long-term eutrophication problems that characterise many developing countries ( section 6.3.1 ) . |
| 13 | THE first of 30 homes aimed at providing affordable housing for islanders in Arran 's dear market was opened yesterday in The Park , Lamlash , by Kirk Care Housing Association , with help of a £1.1 million grant from Scottish Homes . |
| 14 | FINANCIER George Soros 's £35 million donation to Bosnian aid agencies was generous but surely something should be done about the crazy money markets that allowed him to make so much money so quickly . |
| 15 | The trust hopes to have 25 centres by the end of 1994 with the aid of a £1 million donation from British Telecom . |
| 16 | In the late 1980s nearly 40 million prescriptions for psychotropic drugs were issued every year , of which 40 per cent were minor tranquillizers such as Valium . |
| 17 | Of the total amount of financial aid of 12,000 million ECU , 10,800 million ECU ( compared with 7,400 million ECU under Lome III ) was to be channelled through the European Development Fund ( EDF ) : ( i ) 7,995 million ECU as general grants ( comprising 350 million ECU for emergency aid , 280 million ECU for interest-rate subsidies , 1,150 million ECU for structural adjustment and 6,215 million ECU for other grants ) ; ( ii ) 1,500 million ECU for the system of stabilization of export earnings from agricultural and fishery products ( Stabex ) ; ( iii ) 480 million ECU for the special facility for mining products ( Sysmin ) ; and ( iv ) 825 million ECU risk capital . |
| 18 | Of the total amount of financial aid of 12,000 million ECU , 10,800 million ECU ( compared with 7,400 million ECU under Lome III ) was to be channelled through the European Development Fund ( EDF ) : ( i ) 7,995 million ECU as general grants ( comprising 350 million ECU for emergency aid , 280 million ECU for interest-rate subsidies , 1,150 million ECU for structural adjustment and 6,215 million ECU for other grants ) ; ( ii ) 1,500 million ECU for the system of stabilization of export earnings from agricultural and fishery products ( Stabex ) ; ( iii ) 480 million ECU for the special facility for mining products ( Sysmin ) ; and ( iv ) 825 million ECU risk capital . |
| 19 | ACP representatives considered this allocation incommensurate with both the additional needs of the ACP recipient countries and the overall gross domestic product of the EC donor countries , but were only able to secure an overall increase of 1,200 million ECU in subsequent negotiations . |
| 20 | MANCHESTER CITY are weighing up a £1 million bid for Dutch forward Eric Viscaal , 24 , of top Belgian side Ghent . |
| 21 | HOLIDAY company Airtours yesterday failed in its hostile £294 million bid for rival company Owners Abroad , travel industry sources said . |
| 22 | ‘ There was nothing special about it for me , ’ said Hirst , the subject of a £3.5 million bid by United . |
| 23 | Mr Bond has been threatened with receiverships , the loss of boardroom control at his key Bell Resources company , failure to secure sale of the breweries , share suspensions , disclosure that a former employee may have been involved in telephone bugging and the final indignity of a derisory A$53 million bid from rival Kerry Packer for his TV interests . |
| 24 | A £2 million investment in new component repair facilities has enabled the company to handle greater volumes of work in-house and allowed space for the RB211 and Olympus workshops to double in size . |
| 25 | The Easoe scientists said that the ozone loss was more serious than they had expected when they embarked on the £14 million experiment in late 1991 . |
| 26 | In 1955 Soviet trade amounted to 122 million rubles with Asia , 40 million rubles with Africa and 58 million rubles with Latin America . |
| 27 | By 1962 , while trade with Asia reached 636 million rubles , and with Africa 265 million rubles , it was still only 96 million rubles with Latin America ( excluding Cuba ) ( Mirovaia ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia , no. 3 , 1964 , p. 87 ) . |
| 28 | For example , Royal Mail Postcode Centre offers the postcodes of the UK 's 24 million addresses on compact disc and in directories . |
| 29 | Shipping giant P&O dipped 9p to £3.40 , despite a £28 million surge in half-year profits to £101 million . |
| 30 | The British National Corpus is a project which is in the process of collecting 100 million words of contemporary spoken and written English taken from a range of text types . |