Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Szeliga has a promotional budget of £1 million this year to carve a slice of the UK market for loudspeakers , which he estimates to be worth £50 million , and an R&D budget of up to £20 million over five years to develop amplifiers , compactdisc players and cassette decks , a sector estimated to be worth £1 billion a year in Britain . |
| 2 | Ahead of the vote for Supreme Soviet Chairman scheduled for May 26 a total of 13 candidates were formally nominated , including Yeltsin and Vlasov , but on May 25 Vlasov unexpectedly withdrew his candidacy , as did all but three of the nominees . |
| 3 | What Delors had in mind was aid worth £10 billion a year for ten years . |
| 4 | In a drive against counterfeiting , the association is asking member companies , which sell drugs worth £3 billion a year to the NHS , for ‘ greater openness ’ when they detect fraud . |
| 5 | According to the Africa Economic Digest of March 18 a number of key posts went to members of the southern tribes under-represented under Habré . |
| 6 | In the early hours of March 1 a group of four soldiers seized weapons and ammunition from the Ministry of Defence headquarters in the fort of Tiuna in the capital . |
| 7 | The report 's publication followed a conference at which it was estimated that older people were then spending upwards of £14 billion a year in the marketplace . |
| 8 | However , it is believed to be in the region of £15 million a year for the world-wide rights , plus a percentage of profits over and above that figure . |
| 9 | Yet , defending the cuts , the Minister claims that most of his department 's spending of £1 billion a year on museums , heritage , sports and the arts , directly aids tourism . |
| 10 | Oh yes , they are still going down the pan , to the tune of £1 billion a year in the UK , according to the Management Consultancies Association . |
| 11 | In the example of Figure 15–5 a tax on meals leads to too few meals being produced . |
| 12 | In terms of Figure 15–1 a move from A to B or A to G is a Pareto gain . |
| 13 | The first was that during the dispute of 14 June to 5 August 1911 , Wilson undercut an agreement which he had made with the Clyde shipowners for a minimum of £pound5 10s a month by " temporarily patching up his bitter quarrel with the Shipping Federation and simultaneously accepting an all-round payment of £pound5 a month " which the shipowners were eventually forced to increase to the Glasgow level as standard . |
| 14 | Jeffrey Sachs , a Harvard economist who has advised the Polish government , has suggested that an aid package of $30 billion a year for five years might be in order . |
| 15 | The first withdrawal of US troops began on Jan. 2 with the return of about 300 troops to the USA , and as of Jan. 7 a total of 3,300 troops had returned home , out of a total of 26,000 who had been in Panama . |
| 16 | Prior to the conclusion of the Bensonhurst trial , in the early hours of May 13 a gang in the predominantly black neighbourhood of Brooklyn assaulted three Vietnamese men , one of whom suffered a fractured skull . |
| 17 | On the weekend of May 11-12 a group of about 200 radical ecologists and feminists broke away from the Greens to form the Ecological Left/Alternative List . |
| 18 | As of May 20 a total of 6,700 Vietnamese boat people had arrived in Hong Kong since January ( as compared with 6,600 for the whole of 1990 ) , and the arrival of 387 on May 7 was the highest recorded daily influx since 1989 . |
| 19 | He needs to persuade foreigners that it is safe for them to lend the best part of £1000 million a week to the Treasury ; and he needs to persuade Britons that it is safe for them to start spending their money again . |
| 20 | the Regional Council earns in excess of £3 million a year from its Trade Effluent Control Scheme |
| 21 | For if at the end of period 1 a rise in aggregate demand is predictable , the government could reduce its own spending and thereby maintain the position of the aggregate demand curve at AD and hence maintain aggregate real output at y n . |
| 22 | Charlie , 50 , battled for 35 minutes to beat the specimen which was hooked in 70 feet of water half a mile off Stout Point near Aberthaw , Mid-Glamorgan . |
| 23 | To a pound of sugar half a pint of water . |
| 24 | Pressure from Lord Scarman and others in the House of Lords forced a change on the Government when it was enacting the Police and Criminal Evidence Act . |
| 25 | In 1964 , the House of Lords considered a case in which a union were met by a refusal of a company to negotiate with them on terms and conditions of service although they organized the majority of the men concerned , being watermen in the Port of London . |
| 26 | In Lim 's case [ 1980 ] AC 174 , at pp187F-188D the House of Lords affirmed a ruling of the Court of Appeal to this effect given in Cunningham 's case [ 1973 ] QB 942 at p957 per Lawton LJ . |
| 27 | According to India Today of Dec. 31 a total of 3,560 people had been killed in Punjab between Jan. 1 and Dec. 11 , 1990 . |
| 28 | , The UN Secretariat has come up with a figure of $165 billion a year for saving the world 's environment . |
| 29 | Among other personal touches , he introduces seafaring imagery on several occasions : Christ is helmsman in psalm 31 , and in psalm 89 he adds to the raging sea of verse 9 a reference to the navy which is very expressive of his Englishness . |
| 30 | After a review of the state of research , the government decided , in 1988 , that it could not justify continued expenditure of £100 million a year on a project with such an elusive prospect of commercial return . |