Example sentences of "[verb] a few million " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they probably paid a few million more for Alan Bond 's Irises . |
| 2 | He predicted the Chancellor would ‘ throw a few million at the issue ’ in the Budget , whereas what was required was a new skills strategy . |
| 3 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 4 | And it must be prepared to lose a few million pounds in the process . |
| 5 | He could , of course , join a few million others and draw the dole . |
| 6 | We also know that the specialization took place very early in the evolution of mammals and that the ancestors of the main groups that are alive today all appeared around the same time , give or take a few million years . |
| 7 | By investing a few million pounds into the anti-poaching forces of Kenya and Tanzania , as is happening at the moment , we will probably reduce and even stop the poaching problem for the time being but the long-term survival of the elephant in eastern Africa is going to depend ultimately on those countries ' abilities to incorporate wildlife and wild area protection into an overall land use policy . |