Example sentences of "over £1m " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one 10-year period from the mid-1970s it rose from just over £30,000 to nearly £250,000 , and analysts calculate that in 20 years - when all the men it was specifically designed to help will be long dead — it will be worth well over £1m and increasing in value at more than £100,000 a year . |
| 2 | The list was so long because he counted every programme over £1m — the previous definition was over £5m — and included such projects as a car park at Medway Hospital in Kent . |
| 3 | At the Conservative Party Conference in 1986 , Norman Fowler , then Secretary of State for Health , produced a computer printout of 380 new ‘ large hospital schemes ’ : the list was so long because he had counted every programme over £1m , whereas schemes had previously had to cost over £5m in order to qualify . |
| 4 | ‘ We have lent over £1m this year , above our target , ’ Mr Lowman says . |
| 5 | It has an overdraft of just over £1m , and its finance committee was told this week that , after hoarding trade-union and individual affiliations since 1987 , the party would have some £6m to spend in a May or June election — still much less than the Tories , but twice what it spent in the last election . |
| 6 | Shell , recently fined over £1m for an oil spillage , got into more trouble . |
| 7 | A survey of 4,020 such companies by Glasgow-based JDH Consultants shows that several hundred , whose sales range from £10,000 to well over £1m , are paying fees of £1,000 or £2,000 . |
| 8 | Last year , the Newport office , whose practice relied largely on small clients , saw its fee income drop from well over £1m to £760,000 . |
| 9 | Top accountants make over £1m |
| 10 | Two top accountant directors scooped over £1m in dividends during the year of their latest company accounts , according to a survey by Labour Research . |
| 11 | John Tame , chief accountant for the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund , which was awarded first prize in Category 1 ( best report and accounts from a charity with income over £1m ) , explains : ‘ We 've entered for many years . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Villa chairman Doug Ellis will meet officials of Italian club Bari this week to thrash out a dispute over £1m missing from David Platt 's transfer . |
| 13 | Well over £1m has gone into the project so far but exact figures are not available . |
| 14 | In the west midlands 26 fundholders made a combined saving of over £1m on their drug bill : the ability to retain the savings for practice development seems to have provided a strong incentive . |
| 15 | Western Provident Association spent over £1m but recruited just 120 new subscribers . |
| 16 | The Ice Rink and Temple Cowley Swimming Pool cost us well over £1m a year . |
| 17 | Council house rent arrears amounted to over £1m , though they are at long last being reduced . |
| 18 | Media spend on the personal care brands through LH-S totalled just over £1m , but the brands have historically been worth much more . |
| 19 | BELFAST could soon see annual profits of over £1m go up in smoke and become a dumping ground for waste from all over Europe , it was warned today . |
| 20 | The inquiry is believed to have cost well over £1m already . |
| 21 | The Iliad went in for the triumvirate in the Ladbroke of 1991 at Leopardstown and then the biggest success of all came at Cheltenham where Destriero was supposed to have landed a gamble of over £1m in taking the Supreme Novices Hurdle . |
| 22 | ‘ He said Tottenham were receiving over £1m for Lineker . |
| 23 | Profits surge : Share dealing and information group ShareLink , which is planning a £30m stock market flotation next month , has announced a profits rise of just over £1m to £3.5m in the 12 months to March 31 . |
| 24 | The Yorkshire club are over £1m in debt . |
| 25 | The previous year they lost just over £1m , despite transfer profits of £640,000 . |
| 26 | He runs a small electronics firm in Darlington with a turnover of just over £1m and drives a brand new top of the range BMW . |
| 27 | Once again , I understand this year over £1m has to be found again by Darlington Health Authority to meet this shortfall . |
| 28 | Since it joined the MOPs quality programme in late 1990 , Weston Point Salt Section has eliminated over £1m from its Cost of Quality . |