Example sentences of "[n mass] million [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The field of Old Master and modern drawings has been much less hyped than other markets and rarely sees fireworks like the world record of £4.18 million paid for a Van Gogh drawing in December 1990 . |
| 2 | His proposals would limit Harlow 's spending to £11.20 million instead of £17.953 million budgeted by the council , and that of Castle Point to £7.97 million instead of £8.47 million . |
| 3 | As many as 40 local councils stood to lose up to £100 million from the collapse of BCCI , the largest likely loss being that of the Western Isles which had £23 million invested in the bank . |
| 4 | Monthly PC sales have topped six figures for the first time , with 100,165 computers worth £111.6 million shipped in the UK during November 1992 . |
| 5 | Phillips also contradicts Clarke 's view that cuts of £28 million forced on the Science and Engineering Research Council are the result of ‘ reckless overcommitment ’ by the SERC . |
| 6 | The house was then advertised for sale at £15 million compared to the £6 million it had sold for in 1988 . |
| 7 | The total costs are now estimated at £25 million capital costs , plus either ] £10 million or £16 million needed for the endowment necessary to fund the operating costs of the extended library and the permanent outhousing of 50 staff . |
| 8 | LASMO 's profit after tax ‘ before exceptional items ’ for 1992 of £41 million compares with a profit for 1991 of £17 million on a restated basis . |
| 9 | On its traditional business , the Building Society itself returned a pre-tax profit of £34.0 million compared with a figure of £29.8 million in 1988 . |
| 10 | On Jan. 9 , 1990 , the US administration announced its support for the restoration of World Bank loans to China which met " basic human needs " ; the International Herald Tribune reported on Jan. 13 that this covered about $2,000 million of the $7,000 million sought by the World Bank . |
| 11 | In December , the DoT decided against granting the £5 million needed for the road , which would stretch from nearby Snape Hill to Red Bridge . |
| 12 | Under pressure : oil firms fear the impact of changes which will mean up to £400 million lost to the industry |
| 13 | The Wolfson Foundation spends about £17 million a year on medical research ( compared with a total of about £400 million spent by the other charities ) . |
| 14 | One of the hallmarks of Conservative British governments in the 1980s was the readiness to spend large sums of money promoting the private market and a set of values which have come to be known as the ‘ enterprise culture ’ — witness the £1,200 million spent on the privatisation of Shorts and the shipyard . |
| 15 | The Minister of State , Foreign and Commonwealth Office said today in an answer that we are giving £2 million or £3 million to assist with the repatriation of refugees in camps in Thailand . |
| 16 | In fact , it 's taken 4 years and £600 million to create to the new Peugeot 605 range . |
| 17 | They were chiefly concerned with the destiny of the £2.1 million identified within the strategy for community developments ( Table 2 ) . |
| 18 | Take a married couple with about £1.6 million invested in the stock market living off dividend income of slightly under £80,000 a year . |
| 19 | And £1.66 million came from the sale of the paper-making and packaging businesses . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , BASE is due to announce this week how it intends to spend an extra £4 million awarded by the Office of Science and Technology over the next three years . |
| 21 | Net investment in your Society during the year amounted to £256.2 million compared with a figure of £321.3 million in 1988 . |
| 22 | And they 're looking for your money-raising ideas to top the record £2 million raised in the south last time … and the zanier the ideas the better , say the organisers . |
| 23 | A report prepared by head teachers in Cambridgeshire and circulated to all county councillors comments on the impact of the £2 million cut in the county council 's budget . |
| 24 | Pension fund frauds came next at £147 million followed by the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise with a total of £99 million . |
| 25 | They calculated expected gains of from $16.5 million to $97.2 million spread over the expected length of employment of the employees . |
| 26 | The £11 million fetched by the Turner trumps the previous highest price for a work by British artist : in 1990 Constable 's The Lock went to a Swiss collector for £10.78 million . |
| 27 | The joint Royal College of Nursing and Nursing Standard survey has come at a time when Essex Rivers Healthcare is trying to save £2.2 million to cope with an overspend of £1.3 million last year , waiting lists are at a record high and the closure date of a Colchester hospital has been set . |
| 28 | As no one individual or institution in the Czech Republic has $10 million to spend on a painting , the collection would almost certainly be split and leave Bohemia if it ever does come under the hammer . |
| 29 | He was paid $1.5 million to walk through a movie , went out with a princess , ran anywhere that celebrity can take a man . |
| 30 | Full acceptance of the Offer by Palatine shareholders would involve the issue of 11.8 million new AW ordinary shares ( representing 32 per cent of the issued ordinary share capital of AW as enlarged by the issue ) with a value of £134.1 million based on the closing middle market price of an AW ordinary share of £3.75 taken from the Stock Exchange Daily Official List for 4 July 1985 ( the last dealing day before the announcement of the Offer ) . |