Example sentences of "million at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 2 | Sold below its estimate of $1.4–1.8 million at a nonetheless creditable $1.1 million |
| 3 | The USSR also agreed to lend Cuba $100 million at a yearly interest rate of 2.5 per cent . |
| 4 | Even as American investment slumped from £100 million annually at its peak to around £30 million at the beginning or the 1970s , the US companies were still doing a lot more for the British film industry than the British seemed able to do for themselves . |
| 5 | British Aerospace has already admitted that Rover 's assets were undervalued by £350 million at the time of the takeover . |
| 6 | It was not surprising that the amount spent on exploration sank from $760 million in the still relatively fat year of 1979 to between $120 and $150 million at the end of the 1980s and the size of known reserves remained static over a period of at least four years . |
| 7 | For instance , a study of the dies used for the bronze coinage of Antoninus Pius ( AD 138–61 ) circulating in Britain has suggested that the total stock of bronze coinage in circulation was of the general magnitude of about ten million sestertii ; as the population of the province was about five million at the time , we can conclude from the low figure of two sestertii per capita that most of the population can not have used coinage on anything like the scale required in a fully monetised society ( see also p. 51 ) . |
| 8 | But it has taken £69 million at the US box office since it opened at Christmas — all of which will delight Great Ormond Street Hospital , to which J M Barrie gave the rights of Peter Pan . |
| 9 | The cruellest cut of all , of course , was that Luton sold Black to Forest for £1.5 million at the start of the season to ease their perpetual money worries . |
| 10 | Yet the resources available to these boroughs through Housing Investment Programme allocations fell from around £160 million at the end of the 1970s to about £60 million in real terms by 1987–8 . |
| 11 | Little Big Man was released in 1970 and took a healthy $15 million at the box office . |
| 12 | Since Macaulay 's latest film Home Alone II : Lost In New York was released three days ago it has taken £2.2 million at the box office and a million people have packed cinemas across the country to watch it . |
| 13 | In the six years in which Ian Martin was secretary general , Amnesty International 's worldwide tally of members and subscribers doubled from about 500,000 in 1986 to more than a million at the beginning of the 1990s . |
| 14 | This had a circulation approaching two million at the end of the war , ranking it ahead of six out of ten national Sundays . |
| 15 | The growth of the colonies was likely to force new departures in policy and legislation on the British government ; the American population rose from about a quarter of a million at the beginning of the century to about two million by 1776 . |
| 16 | These savings were thought to be of the order of £0.5 million at the most . |
| 17 | The present texts indicate that the 70 souls of Joseph 's day had risen to two or three million at the time of the Exodus ( Numbers 1 ) and to at least five million in the time of David ( 2 Samuel 24:9 ; 1 Chronicles 21:5 ) . |
| 18 | Wayne 's World , in which he plays the villain , had grossed $110 million at the last count . |
| 19 | The CPR carried 3.9 million bushels of grain in 1882 ; 7.8 million bushels in 1885 ; 29.3 million bushels in 1892 ; 42.8 million at the end of the century ; and 175.5 million in 1921 . |
| 20 | Is my hon. Friend aware that the tyranny that controls education in Nottinghamshire holds back £10 or more for each and every child above that national average , that it is somewhere around two thirds of the way down the merit table for putting resources where they belong — at the school — and sits on about £3 million at the centre , which is the same as holding back £5,000 for every school in the county ? |
| 21 | At the end of 1990 , the latest date for which figures are available , the number of businesses registered for VAT in the United Kingdom was 1.7 million , compared with 1.3 million at the end of 1979 — an increase of almost a third . |
| 22 | Saying that controls would be maintained on capital construction , currency issuance , and expenditure and imports , he called for growth in exports to increase foreign exchange reserves , variously stated to be between $14,200 and $16,300 million at the end of 1989 . |
| 23 | On May 24 , 1989 , the Paris Club creditor nations agreed to reschedule approximately $550 million of Cameroon 's outstanding public foreign debt ( estimated at $2,785 million at the end of 1987 by the World Bank ) . |
| 24 | The report noted that sharp increases in arrears on interest payments to commercial banks , from about $10,000 million at the end of 1988 to about $16,400 million a year later , meant that " the prospects for any increases in sources of external financing for the developing countries are not promising " . |
| 25 | ( On Feb. 7 , 1990 , Deputy Finance Minister Janusz Sawicki had said that Poland 's foreign debt was US$40,000 million at the end of 1989 and that it was set to reach $43,000 million by the end of 1990 . ) |
| 26 | Gorbachev on Dec. 4 had announced to the USSR Supreme Soviet emergency plans to import basic foodstuffs to the value of 2,100 million roubles ( US$1,050 million at the new commercial exchange rate ) to ensure that supplies in the first quarter of 1991 were at the levels of the same period in 1990 . |
| 27 | The budget deficit was projected at nearly 79,000 million forint ( US$1,308 million at the Dec. 31 exchange rate of $1.00=60.404 forint ) , even with expenditure held back to 931,690 million forint . |
| 28 | Total outstanding credit provided by the Fund had also risen ( from SDR24,388 million to SDR25,603 million , but compared with a peak of SDR37,622 million at the end of April 1985 ) . |
| 29 | Soon after taking office the National Party government estimated that the budget deficit by the end of fiscal 1991/92 ( June 1992 ) would be NZ$3,700 million , rising to NZ$5,200 million at the end of fiscal 1992/93 . |
| 30 | Full details were not available but it was reported that it would be a balanced budget despite a doubling of general government expenditure to R 24,000,000 million ( about US$16,500 million at the floating rate ) . |