Example sentences of "million [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Market leader Thomson wiped a total of £50 million off the cost of trips abroad . |
| 2 | Wellcome , the drugs firm which makes AZT , suffered a slide on the stock market , wiping £800 million off the company 's shares at one stage . |
| 3 | The early drop wiped around £800 million off the company 's market capitalisation — before staging a modest comeback to stand 51p down . |
| 4 | The hon. Member for Sherwood ( Mr. Stewart ) wiped about £30 million or £40 million off the take from the coal industry . |
| 5 | The British Government , despite widespread support for investment in , and expansion of , training , is cutting £350 million off the training budget . |
| 6 | In addition , to avoid seriously misleading Parliament , when we table the revised estimate for the cash injection on the day of the statement , we can not include the £150 million as a receipt due this year . |
| 7 | Opposition came from the Treasury ministers who objected to a handout of a cool million as a near sacrilegious attack on the principle of sound finance , and from the Foreign Secretary who had no faith at all in the capacity of the Evian Committee to agree on joint action . |
| 8 | Underspendings from Kensington Chelsea and Westminster ( on its demise ) eventually provided a source for enabling the strategy to be implemented , and the regional health authority contributed £1.8 million as a loan from its Strategic Development Fund . |
| 9 | The probability of my being struck by lightning in any one minute of my life is perhaps 1 in 10 million as a conservative estimate . |
| 10 | Stewart , who started his career with Blackpool , was signed by Tottenham for 1.7 million as a striker from Manchester City in July , 1988 . |
| 11 | Foreign trade turnover in 1989 grew to US$1,200 million as a result of vigorous government efforts and new measures under the policy of perestroika . |
| 12 | Camdessus made a brief visit to Buenos Aires on Nov. 27 to discuss the possibility of the IMF making a loan of US$3,000 million as a preliminary step to Argentina being able to participate in the US-sponsored Brady Plan for Third-World debt reduction ( introduced in March 1989 — see pp. 36541-42 ) . |
| 13 | The Alberta Land business achieved a turnover of $12.3 million as a result of the sales of properties in the Calgary and Edmonton areas . |
| 14 | The profits contribution from Spanish hotels fell from £5.3 million to £4.6 million as a result of the recession in the package tourist business . |
| 15 | This included £11.5 million as a result of unlawful borrowings by the council and £6.6 million placed on deposit with the bank without regard to limitations placed on sums lent to any single institution . |
| 16 | Calum Macdonald , the Labour MP for the Western Isles — which lost £24 million as a result of the BCCI affair — said the committee had stated in the clearest and strongest terms that the Bank of England was negligent and had failed in its supervisory duties . |
| 17 | Mr Thomas also claimed the taxpayer had lost at least £29 million as a result of the 1990 sale of the Post Office 's Girobank operations to the Alliance & Leicester building society , in preference to the Co-op Bank 's bid . |
| 18 | Profits were boosted by an interest charge slashed from £9.9 million to £4 million as a result of measures to cut debts . |
| 19 | The deficit on invisible items rose by 46 per cent to $22,600 million as an increasing number of Japanese made overseas visits . |
| 20 | The hon. Member for Dagenham quite rightly used the Government figure of £780 million as the amount by which the discount system will be beneficial to single-person households . |
| 21 | In mid-January India had secured from the IMF the equivalent of US$1,800 million ( $777 million as the first tranche of a standby arrangement and $1,009 million under the compensatory and contingency financing facility — CCFF ) in order to boost foreign exchange reserves which had been eroded by rising oil prices and the loss of remittances from the Gulf and which had reached an unprecedented low in late 1990 . |
| 22 | UK profits soared 60 per cent to £60 million as the loss-making shirt and fabrics businesses were turned around . |
| 23 | If the transactions and precautionary demands are estimated at £80 million during a certain time period , and the money supply is fixed at £100 million , then the speculative demand is £20 million . |
| 24 | Notwithstanding such erosion , landed wealth showed remarkable resilience and several landed estates were proved at more than £2 million during the inter-war years ; the eighth Duke of Northumberland , for instance , leaving more than £2,500,000 in 1930 . |
| 25 | When Arab governments refused to provide the subsidies promised to the late government Husayn turned to the United States , which provided a $10 million emergency grant , and a further $30 million during the course of the year . |
| 26 | Perhaps the murkiest issue of all — certainly an issue never addressed by the Bush administration — is why the US , after paying Noriega $1.2 million during the 1980s , when it clearly knew that Panama — headquarters for the formidable US Army Southern Command ( USASC ) that monitors all events in Central and Latin America — was a conduit for drugs , turned so suddenly and harshly against Noriega . |
| 27 | Danson , 42 , has earned over £65 million during the 11-year run . |
| 28 | His point was that a war in peacetime would have to be fought against unemployment , as it persistently remained above one million in the 1920s , and rose towards three million during the severe cyclical depression between 1929 and 1932 . |
| 29 | The population of Korea averaged around eight million during the Yi era but increased rapidly in the twentieth century growing from approximately ten million in 1900 to about thirty million in 1949 . |
| 30 | Section 4 assistance to the industry has tripled from £1 million to nearly £33 million during the same period and has been of great advantage to the economy of Wales . |