Example sentences of "millions [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early days of the Space Rush , there was no reason to go and build hundreds of millions of kilometres away from everyone else . |
| 2 | You do it with your body just like it has been successfully done millions of times before throughout history . |
| 3 | With friends , and sometimes with sister Dannii , Kylie , like millions of youngsters all over the world , acted out her fantasies of pop stardom in front of her bedroom mirror . |
| 4 | The worms are prolific egg layers and an infected dog may pass millions of eggs daily for several weeks . |
| 5 | Let us suppose that a person well acquainted with the woollen trade sets himself to inquire what would be the normal supply price of a certain number of millions of yards annually of a particular kind of cloth . |
| 6 | It would have been no use asking him whether he thought there was a unifying purpose in life , whether it could really be chance that an animal so small that it could n't be seen by the naked eye could die millions of years ago in the depths of the sea and be resurrected by science to prove a man innocent or guilty . |
| 7 | Of course , in many cases this rigidity is perfectly justified — the notion that the Moon is in fact a vast spaceship placed in Earth-orbit millions of years ago by visiting extraterrestrials has , shall we say , little in its favour . |
| 8 | And as the Western media talks about a 3rd World War starting in the Gulf , millions of people all over the world know that the Third World War started long before the battle in the Gulf . |
| 9 | But although her books are read by millions of people all over the world she 's never had a fan club … until now . |
| 10 | A GREAT black question mark faced millions of people recently in their newspapers . |
| 11 | That We must remember that 300 years ago British slavers dragged millions of Africans halfway round the world to work on British sugar plantations in the Caribbean ? |