Example sentences of "of a million [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia . |
2 | It had been previously owned by Maurice Macmillan MP , son of the late Conservative Prime Minister Lord Stockton , and the Duchy paid over three-quarters of a million pounds for the property . |
3 | 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 . |
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5 | Telegrams of ‘ interest ’ and ‘ support ’ were received from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York respectively , and by the end of the year Mrs Whitehouse and Mrs Buckland were claiming to have over a quarter of a million signatures on the Manifesto . |
6 | A DOCUMENTARY programme from NBC-TV in January 1973 , had such an impact that in the following 48 hours more than a quarter of a million copies of the associated book were sold . |
7 | For Britain 's three quarters of a million miners in the nineteen thirties and forties , dust was a massive problem . |
8 | A quarter of a million injectors in the city , 125,000 of them already HIV positive . |
9 | Every year , over a quarter of a million children under the age of 3 contract polio . |