Example sentences of "over £1 " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chevaline in all had risen in cost from £350 m. in 1974 to over £1 billion by 1982 , on top of the Polaris missile programme-even though by this time US-Soviet arms limitation agreements had made Chevaline redundant . |
| 2 | It 's true that Atari is offering a card drive for desktop PCs , and battery-backed add-in memory cards , but these cost over £1 per kilobyte . |
| 3 | The decision means that annual government support for the railways will have dropped from well over £1 billion to around £300 million in 10 years . |
| 4 | We raised extra resources for health from common-sense policies like contracting-out , selling surplus land ( which alone raised over £1 billion ) and controlling the drugs budget . |
| 5 | Commonly called yellow fumitory , it comes up like mustard and cress at the foot of every shady wall in the garden and I used to wrench it out with the ruthlessness I used on sycamore seedlings until I discovered it on sale in a nursery for well over £1 a plant . |
| 6 | THE rock group Queen has handed over £1 million to the Terrence Higgins Trust , the Aids charity , as a tribute to Freddie Mercury , its former lead singer . |
| 7 | In 1981 we introduced private competition for deliveries over £1 . |
| 8 | Between 1986 and 1990 the UK deficit with Germany rose by over £1 billion , although this has temporarily improved . |
| 9 | Even with a budget of over £1 million , governors should realise that almost all is firmly committed from day one , particularly for the teachers ' and ancillary-staff salaries . |
| 10 | But no details are yet available of the cash to be made available , except that it ‘ may be over £1 million ’ . |
| 11 | Thorn EMI Technology , with support from the Department of Industry , has spent well over £1 million on developing a communication system between supplier and customer . |
| 12 | Our first Secretary of State for National Heritage had spent his Easter hols at the Lucerne festival , where the London Symphony Orchestra ( last year 's Arts Council grants : over £1 million ) proved its world-class rank with a ‘ peerless ’ Mahler One . |
| 13 | ‘ They have raised over £1 million for the redevelopment — they deserve to reap the reward , ’ says the man who was captain when Charlton went down in 1956 to begin their troubles . |
| 14 | Total fines were just over £1 million . |
| 15 | It may even win Mr Rowland backing within the market and among outside names ( the individuals who provide Lloyd 's capital ) , though they will be dismayed by his forecasts of losses of up to £2.8 billion ( $1.4 billion ) for 1990 and over £1 billion for 1991 . |
| 16 | During the 1980s the college built up a deficit of over £1 million because for several years its grant was not increased . |
| 17 | The first was over £1 million to set up the George Pitt-Rivers Chair of Archaeological Science in memory of the distinguished anthropologist , the late Captain George Pitt-Rivers . |
| 18 | Mr Khalili values it at over £1 billion . |
| 19 | Around 150 Italian works of art will be shown by around forty dealers and galleries , ranging from antiquities to nineteenth-century paintings , about with prices from £500 to over £1 million . |
| 20 | Spending on social security has increased by 41% over and above inflation — to well over £1 billion per week . |
| 21 | Continental style breakfast from any cafe just over £1 ; try yoghurt and honey too . |
| 22 | ‘ The latest announcements bring the amount raised from the 1992/93 disposal programme to over £1 billion , of which £363 million represents proceeds from peripheral upstream assets . |
| 23 | There are also too many vehicle accidents , the costs of which now amount to over £1 million a year . |
| 24 | The European dimension is firmly at the centre of college activities , and funding generated for projects now stands at over £1 million . |
| 25 | I have recently approved an additional allocation of over £1 million in aid for vulnerable groups in both the north and south of Iraq . |
| 26 | Public expenditure on energy efficiency benefiting such customers will total over £1 billion in 1991-92 . |
| 27 | This financial year , they are expected to be just over £1 billion — about one half of 1 per cent . |
| 28 | We are continuing to invest in it at a rate of over £1 million for every working day . |
| 29 | Private sector investment of well over £1 billion will be attracted into the area and 4,800 homes will be built , of which a quarter will be low-cost social housing . |
| 30 | The Government have doubled the resources available to housing associations , from just over £1 billion last year to more than £2 billion in 1993-94 . |