Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] million pounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | It saves the government more than a hundred million pounds by cutting the number of expensive court hearings , and it 's a quick and easy way for the police to clear up crime . |
| 2 | Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later . |
| 3 | Erm the cost of sales is two and a half million pounds which gives us a gross profit of almost two and a half million pounds . |
| 4 | Erm the cost of sales is two and a half million pounds which gives us a gross profit of almost two and a half million pounds . |
| 5 | You 'll notice on the overhead cost the big cost is the advertising which is two and a half million pounds and that unfortunately takes us into a a net loss at the end of the year of one point almost two million pounds . |
| 6 | He died intestate 27 May 1930 in Ryelands , Leicester , leaving a fortune of ten and a half million pounds , the largest intestate legacy in British history to that point . |
| 7 | In nineteen ninety one , arrears totalling one and a half million pounds was due to those twelve thousand eight hundred and twelve workers . |
| 8 | Er , we also announced at the same time as the Alton , er , Towers acquisition that Longman had acquired Rank Training for eleven and a half million pounds . |
| 9 | I 'd just like to make two or three points first of all the exchange factor which Frank touched upon when , when talking about profits you probably all totally familiar but I have forgotten quite how much the dollar has strengthened recently beginning of the year it was nearly two dollars and the result of that is that for the erm first half as a whole the impact of er exchange translation was adverse for our profits compared with last year to the tune of about one and a half million pounds . |
| 10 | Two and a half million pounds may sound a lot to run a profession of just over 7,000 practising barristers — but we are only able to hold that figure by reason of the hard work from our small but totally dedicated Secretariat , and by the voluntary work of many members of the profession . |
| 11 | In total , we estimate that next year , police and fire pensions will cost , gross , nearly seven and a half million pounds . |
| 12 | structural benefits that we do have this backlog twenty six and a half million pounds of work . |
| 13 | I see no reason whatsoever for a council that will still have two and a half million pounds in balances after the labour group proposals , why on earth we need to build another hundred thousand pounds into the budget , paid for by er council tax payers to provide for unforeseen expenditure . |
| 14 | So in net terms we can have maximum , we wo n't go to this in the current till next year , erm two and a half million pounds of growth . |
| 15 | These may be trying times for estate agents but Croome Court 's still expected to go for one and a half million pounds |
| 16 | Count Nikolai Tolstoy , who was ordered to pay record libel damages of one and a half million pounds , is fighting in the High court to have the debt cancelled . |
| 17 | Two and a half years ago , he faced having to pay record libel damages of one and a half million pounds . |
| 18 | The one and a half million pounds damages has risen with interest and costs to two million pounds . |
| 19 | The High Court has ruled that the historian from Oxfordshire will still have to pay Lord Aldington one and a half million pounds for allegations he made about his war record . |
| 20 | A writer who was ordered to pay two and a half million pounds in libel damages and costs , has uncovered new material which he claims casts doubt over the judgement . |
| 21 | The government is giving back nine and a half million pounds to Oxford City Council , after admitting a mistake in the calculations for the housing budget . |
| 22 | The Government is increasing the council 's spending limit by two and a half million pounds . |
| 23 | This afternoon , the Environment Secretary Michael Howard , back pedalled a little by announcing that he would allow the authority to spend another two and a half million pounds . |
| 24 | A rescue plan 's been drawn up to save England 's hedgerows , The government is offering farmers grants totalling three and a half million pounds to restore damaged hedges and plant new ones . |
| 25 | It 's budget — around one and a half million pounds a year . |
| 26 | Thirty years ago this week a gang of audacious , daring robbers held up the London to Glasgow mail train and made off with over two and a half million pounds . |
| 27 | Leatherslade Farm was the hideout used by the Great Train Robbers after they stole two and a half million pounds from the Glasgow to Euston mail train in 1963 . |
| 28 | They hit coshed the driver and made off with two and a half million pounds in used five pound notes . |
| 29 | An extra four and a half million pounds is to be spent on home care schemes . |
| 30 | It cost one and a half million pounds — but the hospital says it 's money well spent . |