Example sentences of "[adj] million [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Finance Ministry estimated that this was likely to add between 40,000 million and 50,000 million forint to the previously estimated cost of 100,000 million forint . |
| 2 | According to Hattat , 10% of the country 's 30 million males between the ages of 20 and 60 suffer from some kind of sexual dysfunction . |
| 3 | According to one estimate , China 's reserves amount to 100 million tonnes , as against 30 million tonnes in the rest of the world . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , Ali is chosen by most boxers as the most proto typical figure , though Bunny Johnson cites Jack Johnson and many of the newer recruits to boxing look to Sugar Ray Leonard , the quick-fisted American multiple world champion who blazed his way from an Olympic gold medal at Montreal in 1976 to an estimated 30 million dollars by the end of 1981 . |
| 5 | The UN tells us that there are now 17.5 million officially registered refugees — there are probably many more who are not registered — with an extra 2 million refugees in the past two years . |
| 6 | By 1963 there were over 2 million members in the PKI while 12.5 million were in Communist mass organisations . |
| 7 | We are not the Government who have put 2 million people on the dole from our manufacturing industries in the past 10 years . |
| 8 | In 1989 , it was estimated that over 2 million people in the UK still drank water contaminated with lead . |
| 9 | In addition , Britain 's total housing stock has increased by 2 million units in the past 12 years — a far higher rate of increase than that of the population as a whole . |
| 10 | We have lost 2 million homes from the rented sector . |
| 11 | By removing 2 million homes from the rented sector at a time when families are becoming smaller , the Government have left young people with nowhere to go . |
| 12 | A new compressor for fridges and air conditioners could reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the USA , where it was developed , by the equivalent of taking 2 million cars off the road . |
| 13 | In this case , the difference in redshift of 19000 km per sec corresponds to a separation of about 800 million parsecs between the two objects , ( 1 parsec is roughly 3.25 light years ) . |
| 14 | That linkage technology was one of the factors behind Philips 's investment of thirty-six million pounds in the company last year . |
| 15 | The scheme , which required the passage of enabling legislation and which was scheduled for July 25 , was expected to generate revenue of some 91,000 million roubles for the government . |
| 16 | That itself is some forty million pounds below the association of Welsh counties assessment of what is actually needed to meet the needs of the community and it is in any event not available for general spending . |
| 17 | The child care initiative launched by my predecessor involving expenditure of over forty million pounds over the period is giving training and enterprise councils the opportunity to come forward with some very imaginative and innovative schemes . |
| 18 | But by nineteen ninety one , that had turned in to a deficit of a hundred million and one prediction suggests the deficit would have widened dramatically to six hundred and forty million pounds by the end of the decade . |
| 19 | The WHO estimates that 30–40 million people throughout the world will have become infected with HIV by the year 2000 , of which 12–18 million may have developed symptoms . |
| 20 | A US Department of Energy report has predicted output to rise from 890 million tonnes to 1,240 million tonnes in the next 20 years . |
| 21 | There 's a cool half million pounds in the kitty just waiting to be snapped up … a NEW 50,000 Generation Name Game , the latest thing in family fun … the chance to scoop a fortune on Vernons Pools and , of course , diamonds , diamonds , diamonds . |
| 22 | Leatherslade Farm was the hideout used by the Great Train Robbers after they stole two and a half million pounds from the Glasgow to Euston mail train in 1963 . |
| 23 | He 's worth a few million pennies at the moment . |
| 24 | By investing a few million pounds into the anti-poaching forces of Kenya and Tanzania , as is happening at the moment , we will probably reduce and even stop the poaching problem for the time being but the long-term survival of the elephant in eastern Africa is going to depend ultimately on those countries ' abilities to incorporate wildlife and wild area protection into an overall land use policy . |
| 25 | As a lowly , poorly paid teacher and a member of Mensa , I wonder if RUNNING could put me in touch with sponsors and promoters who might make me a few million pounds over the next couple of years , even though I 'm not Canadian . |
| 26 | Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later . |
| 27 | And it must be prepared to lose a few million pounds in the process . |
| 28 | However , the Pacific-North American plate boundary has undergone significant changes over the past few million years with the subduction of part of the East Pacific Rise spreading ridge and the evolution of a predominantly transform margin . |
| 29 | The real significance of these comparisons remains unknown , as do the real workings of the dolphin mind , but it seems that dolphins and porpoises achieved their modern enlarged brains about 15–20 million years ago , whereas the evolution of the human brain is a phenomenon of the past few million years at the most . |
| 30 | By the end of the Palaeocene , only a few million years from the Cretaceous extinction of the giant reptiles , there were representatives of many of the living mammalian orders , including , for example , the primates ( the order to which man belongs ) , the carnivores ( cats dogs , and most living predators ) and the rodents ( rats , mice ) . |