Example sentences of "million had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1917 roughly one million had been employed on the Russian railway network . |
| 2 | Thus in 1988 the Tanzanian Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee reported that about $5 million had been taken in 1987 in the form of ‘ outright theft ’ from parastatal companies . |
| 3 | Court staffing levels would be increased by 400 in the next financial year and an extra £2 million had been allocated to the court service for this financial year . |
| 4 | Almost $700 million had been invested over seven years in such things as home insulation , efficient lighting systems and triple glazing , resulting in a saving of 220 HW of electricity , about the output of a small power station . |
| 5 | By 1986 UDGs worth £78 million had been approved for 177 projects , with a public-to-private-sector ratio of 1:4.5 . |
| 6 | By the end of last year , almost £300 million had been allocated under the scheme to more than 7000 companies . |
| 7 | In 1977 , after $217 million had been spent , President Carter slapped a ban on commercial reprocessing . |
| 8 | Of £50 million that the government then made available to encourage mining companies , only about £10 million had been taken up by the middle of last year ( see above ) . |
| 9 | Three days after the riveting Panorama , the £350 million had been upped to £880 million by the Daily Express on the assumption that it would be built by contractors . |
| 10 | It confirmed that £2.9 million had been spent in the Maynard renovations and that one million of the sum had gone astray . |
| 11 | The Maxwell name has been reviled by 20,000 pensioners outraged that £400 million had been pillaged from their pension funds . |
| 12 | Cumbria council said more than £7 million had been spent improving safety in five years . |
| 13 | Finance was available from the treasury , and by the end of 1987 the equivalent of $12 million had been allocated . |
| 14 | It was reported on 14 October that eight sixteenth-century paintings valued at £25 million had been stolen from Weimar Castle in the former DDR . |
| 15 | By the end of the 1980s , over 1 million had been sold ( Brindley and Stoker 1988:49 ) . |
| 16 | At a time when the national income was little more than £2 billion a coal production loss of nearly £100 million and a total loss of nearly £250 million had been incurred . |
| 17 | By September 1989 , however , only £44 million had been pledged by industrial sponsors , and since this £44 million can be offset against tax , industry 's share is actually £26.4 million ; the Treasury has committed £140 million . |
| 18 | By the end of the colleges ' last school year on 31 August , nearly £19 million had been contributed to city technology colleges by the private sector . |
| 19 | In his budget speech Babangida announced that a provision of $2,000 million had been allocated for external debt servicing in 1990 , which he considered to be " unsustainable " . |
| 20 | In a statement issued on Feb. 7 , 1990 , however , it said that some $2,000 million had been spent on an operation which had been halted in mid-September for climatic reasons . |
| 21 | US Treasury Under-Secretary David Mulford , who chaired the meeting , said afterwards that a total of $14,300 million had been pledged in financial support for 1990 and 1991 . |
| 22 | The Saudis confirmed on Feb. 17 that $3,500 million had been raised by borrowing from foreign banks , the first such resort to the international money market . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , by early December Jordan had received firm commitments for some US$500,000,000 in aid ( from Canada , China , France , Germany , Japan , South Korea , the Netherlands and Taiwan ) ; in addition , a further US$12,600 million had been pledged by the European Communities ( EC ) and the Gulf financial crisis co-ordination group to the three so-called " front-line states " , Jordan , Egypt and Turkey . |
| 24 | Only around Rbs18,500 million out of a required Rbs54,000 million had been contributed by the republics in the first quarter of the year [ for passage in January of 1991 union budget see p. 37970 ] . |
| 25 | According to Vietnamese officials , 217 foreign investment projects worth a total of US$1,400 million had been approved since the passage in late 1987 of liberal foreign investment legislation [ see pp. 35900-01 ] . |
| 26 | On May 2 , the Minister for State for Relief , Lutfur Rahman , said that property worth US$1,500 million had been destroyed in 13 districts in the coastal region . |
| 27 | On July 9 , 24 people were detained in Milan , Turin , Rome and in the region of Calabria after an official inquiry led by High Commissioner Domenico de Sica concluded that around L15,000 million had been laundered annually through a regional bank , the Banco Populare di Scilla . |
| 28 | Of the Bank 's new lending in fiscal 1991 , $5,200 million had been to Latin America and the Caribbean , $3,400 million to Africa , $7,500 million to Asian countries , and $6,600 million to Europe , the Middle East and North Africa . |
| 29 | $1,500 million had been promised to countries disrupted by the Gulf crisis of late 1990 and early 1991 , and a similar sum would go to the creation of the new Global Environment Facility , while the special programme of assistance for Africa had attracted $7,400 million in new pledges . |
| 30 | For the first time Albania attended the meeting , at which EC Commission Vice-President Frans Andriessen reported that US$32,000 million had been given in aid since early 1990 . |