Example sentences of "than a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New car registrations — only half a million in 1958 — jumped in 1963 to more than a million ( Today , they are running at two million . ) |
| 2 | More than a million and half vehicles enter or leave central London every working day . |
| 3 | The Daily Telegraph has slipped into decline over the last 10 years , losing more than a million readers ( 3.59 million in 1980 ; 2.55 million 1989 ) . |
| 4 | It was a visit to Peking by the Soviet president in May that helped to bring more than a million demonstrators out on to the streets on two successive days , pushing China 's student-led protest movement towards its tragic climax . |
| 5 | The scheme , which already covers more than a million motorists in the UK , can cost as little as £6.50 a year . |
| 6 | It sold more than a million copies in Britain alone and won me the Billboard award for best singer/songwriter in America . |
| 7 | The length of time for which the earth had been at a temperature suitable for life was estimated at not more than a million years . |
| 8 | Nor is it good news for the majority of people who already own-especially those who became first-time buyers over the past four years and whose complete capital has been wiped out : more than a million such people are probably technically bankrupt but need not admit it so long as they keep paying their mortgage . |
| 9 | More than a million foreigners live in Libya , including more than 10,000 Europeans , 500 to 1,000 Americans and 2,000 Canadians . |
| 10 | Over the past year Peskin and his family have bought more than a million shares . |
| 11 | Election Call , the daily phone-in , has attracted audiences of more than a million , compared with between 300,000 and 700,000 who normally tune in at that time . |
| 12 | MORE than a million people in southern Ethiopia are at risk of starvation in a famine that has killed 5,000 in five months , according to the country 's Relief and Rehabilitation Commission . |
| 13 | More than a million bulbs have been planted and half a million annuals will succeed them for the summer . |
| 14 | WHAT are we to make of a claim by the Surrey Wildlife Trust that more than a million wild animals and birds are ‘ probably ’ killed every year on the roads of Britain ? |
| 15 | The American Civil War , the first ‘ modern ’ war with ultimately more than a million men under arms , divided families and friends as much as it split a great nation in two . |
| 16 | As a result , the number of days lost each year through strikes has fallen from an average 12.9 million in the 1970s to less than a million last year — the lowest figure since records began a century ago . |
| 17 | Such a sequence of failures is the nightmare of nuclear opponents but a situation on which the nuclear industry sees the remote probability of more than a million to one . |
| 18 | During the early 1920s the Italian economy expanded dramatically , and by 1931 Milan had more than a million inhabitants , a formidable industrial power base . |
| 19 | They can now say that some of it has been in the ground for more than a million years . |
| 20 | More than a million and a half children — one in eight — live in these one-parent families . |
| 21 | In 1986 , the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) , estimated that there were just over a million ( 1,010 thousand ) one parent families in Great Britain caring for more than a million and a half ( 1.6 million children ) . |
| 22 | There are , however , more than a million Serbs living in other republics , mainly in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina . |
| 23 | The Evangelical Alliance , representing more than a million Christians of all denominations , was so concerned over the increasing problems created by the occult that it published Doorways to Danger . |
| 24 | The story of the creation of the time-scale of magnetic reversals ( the Jaramillo Reve provided the final entry in the time-scale ) goes back to the early 1950s when the scientists at Berkeley perfected the detection accuracy of the potassium/argon method of rock-dating for samples less than a million years old . |
| 25 | The Israeli potash and bromine works at the southern end produce more than a million tonnes of these minerals a year . |
| 26 | In 1981 , EDF distributed , on request , more than a million documents dealing with geothermal power , biomass , and heat pumps , as well as the French nuclear programme . |
| 27 | More than a million Chinese live in such cave dwellings . |
| 28 | More than half the programs we write at Bell Labs contain more than a million lines of code . ’ |
| 29 | The People 's Party and the Democrats had between them polled over 5,500,000 votes in 1928 , but in 1932 they polled less than a million . |
| 30 | And here I am , Kate thinks , sitting opposite you and thinking there 's more distance between us in terms of class and sex awareness than a million years of chat over drinks at six dollars a go on the Oriental Hotel terrace could ever hope to bridge . |