Example sentences of "[noun] billion [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Town Halls will take the extra £1 billion out of the £9 billion in their coffers from the sale of council houses . |
| 2 | Prof Tim Congdon , from Lombard Street Research in the City , is the only one who wants Mr Lamont to take £3 billion out of the economy in taxes this coming year and £4.5 billion in 1993-94 , but that is to balance a loose monetary policy and another cut in interest rates , which he thinks is the best way of stimulating demand without fuelling inflation . |
| 3 | Prof Tim Congdon , from Lombard Street Research in the City , is the only one who wants Mr Lamont to take £3 billion out of the economy in taxes this coming year and £4.5 billion in 1993-94 , but that is to balance a loose monetary policy and another cut in interest rates , which he thinks is the best way of stimulating demand without fuelling inflation . |
| 4 | Fiscal , monetary and administrative reforms , and the elimination of almost all subsidies , are designed to squeeze $35 billion out of the government deficit . |
| 5 | He has not done enough to satisfy the hardliners in the City who wanted him to take at least £2.5 billion out of the economy in 1993-94 . |
| 6 | But if , as seems likely , the Chancellor 's commitment to take more than £6 billion out of the economy in 1994-5 and £10 billion in 1995-6 has done enough to reassure the foreign-exchange markets , the risk of a big misjudgment of market sentiment will diminish over the next few days . |