Example sentences of "million was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea was that the leading countries on the Evian Committee would join in promoting a public subscription of £20 million , of which £5 million was to be raised in London . |
| 2 | Baker said on Sept. 10 that $12,000 million was to be provided by Saudi Arabia , the UAE and the Kuwaiti government , half of it to defray the costs of foreign forces , and half to assist Egypt and Turkey [ see below , but also p. 37728 for Saudi measures against Jordan , the other state most seriously affected by the economic impact of the Gulf crisis ] . |
| 3 | The control of 11 federal programmes totalling an estimated $15,000 million was to be passed over to individual states in order to encourage " flexible " spending . |
| 4 | The $9,000 million was to be borrowed by issuing short-term bonds to be redeemed in the next financial year by increasing taxes on oil and cigarettes and by introducing a corporate tax surcharge . |
| 5 | The final $100 million was to be provided from insurance carriers under directors ' and officers ' liability policies . |
| 6 | By 19 August , the Big Five had reluctantly agreed to economies of 79 million , of which nearly 50 million was to be met by cuts in unemployment benefits ; the remainder of the budget would be balanced by additional taxation . |
| 7 | These were now reduced to 56 million , of which only 22 million was to be cut from unemployment benefits . |