Example sentences of "[prep] millions of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allied fears that mainland Japan itself would have to be invaded at the suggested cost of millions of fatalities on both sides , as well as a wish to pre-empt Soviet involvement , led to the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki , respectively , on 6 and 9 August 1945 . |
| 2 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |
| 3 | Most of the facts about how an investment group could be allowed to draw in tens of millions of pounds of people 's savings for years after regulators had first spotted that things were amiss at Barlow Clowes were revealed in a report by Sir Godfray Le Quesne commissioned last year by the then Trade Secretary , Lord Young . |
| 4 | They knew they would blow the lid on the hundreds of millions of pounds of defence equipment which they had allowed to go to Iraq . |
| 5 | The democratic forms of the Council and committees and the rigid hierarchical structure of the service have some great strengths but in many ways are not geared to the modern task of managing thousands of people and hundreds of millions of pounds of assets . |
| 6 | In those discussions , did the Secretary of State draw to the attention of the Occupational Pensions Board the loss of hundreds of millions of pounds of money owned by Maxwell and Mirror Group pensioners ? |
| 7 | All that the Government have decided so far is to cancel the scheme which British Rail spent hundreds of millions of pounds of our money developing . |
| 8 | Despite the need to spend hundreds of millions of pounds of public money on property acquisition , overnight we had the proposal for an eastern route into Stratford — a defeat for the Secretary of State , if we are to believe what we read in the newspapers , who wanted the original route . |
| 9 | REPRESENTATIVES of 1,600 Lloyd 's of London names who lost hundreds of millions of pounds through syndicates run by Mr Dick Outhwaite yesterday appealed for an out of court settlement of a threatened legal wrangle . |
| 10 | It 's a simple idea which should channel hundreds of millions of pounds into worthwhile causes . |
| 11 | President , congress I ask this congress to do all in their power to campaign on behalf of all sick members and pregnant women regarding the breakdown in the control over sickness and maternity benefits employers are depriving their employees of millions of pounds since the privas privatization of the benefits . |
| 12 | Summer resorts along the coast in the last two years have lost hundreds of millions of pounds in revenue . |
| 13 | Under chairman Roy Watts and chief executive Mike Hoffman , cost control has assumed unprecedented importance , hence its plan for a new water distribution system which could save hundreds of millions of pounds in pumping costs over its 150-year lifespan . |
| 14 | The original commitment to high quality and reliability has been reinforced , leading to the investment of millions of pounds in new products and new technology . |
| 15 | As it happens , there is a substantial engine refurbishment contract in the offing which ( although tenders have not yet been invited ) promises to bring someone several tens of millions of pounds in revenue over a period of a few years . |
| 16 | According to environmentalists , the government could become liable for claims of millions of pounds in compensation for lost business opportunities should the sites become de-notified . |
| 17 | Which is costing newspapers tens of millions of pounds in investment . |
| 18 | BRITISH insurers are bracing themselves for claims totalling hundred of millions of pounds from the storm-battered U.S. |
| 19 | This is because the deliberate burning of the rainforests pumps hundreds of millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere . |
| 20 | Hundreds of millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide are pumped into the atmosphere each year from tropical forest burning , contributing to the ‘ Greenhouse Effect ’ — or global warming — which could severely disrupt the world 's climate . |
| 21 | But even after the distribution of millions of tonnes of food aid , and spending $162 million on measures to prevent soil loss , the spectre of another disaster hangs over the countries of the Sahel , Mauretania , Mali , Upper Volta , Niger , Chad and part of the Sudan are all threatened . |
| 22 | Under the terms of the agreement , representatives from these five countries would help oversee the movement of millions of tonnes of grain and other food aid expected to arrive at South African ports . |
| 23 | Every minute of every day , hundreds of millions of tonnes of coal are burned . |
| 24 | Erm Gascoigne Woods this er this great big erm dump of of coal waste that 's gon na be er left in the Selby area a mile long consisting of millions of tons of of spoil from the tip . |
| 25 | These have a radius of about ten miles and densities of millions of tons per cubic inch . |
| 26 | They would have a radius of only ten miles or so and a density of hundreds of millions of tons per cubic inch . |
| 27 | The most obvious result of the evolving technology is increased speed , from a few thousand instructions per second to several millions or tens of millions of instructions per second . |
| 28 | In practice , of course , many hundreds of millions of households in the rest of the world will contribute to the overall sales picture . |
| 29 | The tropical rainforests are the richest source of life on earth , the result of millions of years of evolution . |
| 30 | It is hardly surprising that it is a poor fit for animals removed from the present by hundreds of millions of years of evolution . |