Example sentences of "million [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | A much more widespread resurgence has since followed , especially in South-East Asia , so that cases reported to WHO rose from 3–1 million in 1972 to 13–5 in 1980 ( although the latest figures include 3–3 million cases from China , from which no figures were available in 1972 ) . |
| 2 | We have lost 2 million homes from the rented sector . |
| 3 | By removing 2 million homes from the rented sector at a time when families are becoming smaller , the Government have left young people with nowhere to go . |
| 4 | Altogether , therefore , over a quarter of a million candidates from over 800 centres became involved with SCOTVEC at a variety of levels during the session . |
| 5 | There were more than eleven million trips from East Germany to Czechoslovakia last year . |
| 6 | The charter granted Calvert palatinate powers over a domain of almost seven million acres from what had once belonged to Virginia . |
| 7 | The pressure for an insurance market settlement of the £305 million losses from Dick Outhwaite 's syndicates has intensified after the $50million threat of legal action against the corporation of Lloyd 's for breach of fiduciary duty from US investors . |
| 8 | Muirshiels mine produced 0.3 million tonnes from veins in Lower Carboniferous trachytic and basaltic lavas ( MRP 67 ) . |
| 9 | Consequently , at the end of 1992 , the Group 's net debt of £1,146 million [ including preference shares ] represented approximately 111 per cent of shareholders ' funds , after having received £732 million proceeds from the sale of assets . |
| 10 | During the period net borrowings have fallen by twenty one point eight million principally due to the twenty one point four million proceeds from Carpet Right . |
| 11 | There are three million refugees from Afghanistan in Pakistan . |
| 12 | Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia . |
| 13 | It is intended that it will draw in towns , villages , fields and woods and , according to the commission , 20 million visitors from an 80 mile radius . |
| 14 | A treasure hunt was launched in February 1986 by the new Philippine President , Corazon Aquino , who hoped to return some of the missing fortune to the 45 million Filipinos from whom it was swindled . |
| 15 | Employment in industry and services , which gained 2½ million workers from agriculture , grew by only around one-quarter , which seems modest in relation to the increase in the capital stock . |
| 16 | By the end of the Palaeocene , only a few million years from the Cretaceous extinction of the giant reptiles , there were representatives of many of the living mammalian orders , including , for example , the primates ( the order to which man belongs ) , the carnivores ( cats dogs , and most living predators ) and the rodents ( rats , mice ) . |
| 17 | The CURL libraries represent major research library collections , around ‘ million volumes from 500 years of collecting and maintenance , comprising some 56% of the total stock of pre-1922 universities . |
| 18 | You quoted David Griffiths saying that he had told the RAF Benevolent Fund that we would be ‘ pretty disappointed if they failed to raise one million pounds from the Marathon ’ . |
| 19 | A yearly budget of a million pounds from the cigarette company make Fusil 's dream for an annual multi-discipline event in the most beautiful corners of the world come true . |
| 20 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 21 | This reinforced the government 's decision of October 1988 to trim five million pounds from the UK fusion budget ; this did not affect JET but threatened 150 jobs at the adjacent Culham Laboratory . |
| 22 | Now we 've been approached by Irish Railway with regard , they 've got something like thirty million pounds from the to upgrade line from Dublin to Belfast . |
| 23 | In 1838 he inherited a fortune of a million pounds from his uncle , Robert Holford . |
| 24 | Each fundholding budget removes approximately one million pounds from the DHA 's purchasing budget . |
| 25 | We will have to be very sure that we know what we 're talking about when we meet them to persuade them that we need their funds more and we can make better use of them and we hope to raise around half of that twenty five million pounds from them . |
| 26 | About twenty thousand business rate payers who face the largest increases following the nineteen ninety revaluation , will benefit by five point three million pounds from the transitional changes . |
| 27 | Thousands of primary school children in Gloucestershire faced sandwiches when county chiefs cut 3 million pounds from the education budget . |
| 28 | He was among four MPs and a group of councillors who went to ask the government for more money.Education in the county they say will be hit because the council needs to cut thirteen million pounds from its budget.This could mean the loss of 250 teachers . |
| 29 | George Walker , the former chairman of the property and leisure group , Brent Walker , has appeared in court charged with stealing twelve million pounds from his company . |
| 30 | Britain 's trade gap narrowed in February to seven hundred and fifty million pounds from eight hundred and fifty-eight million , but the figures are worse than expected by City analysts . |