Example sentences of "[verb] millions of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that , by and large , is what tests have done , enabling millions of people from poor or deprived backgrounds to develop their abilities better than the circumstances of birth would otherwise have allowed . |
| 2 | Yes , we are the Tourist Boards , the National Tourist Boards which include Scotland and Ireland ( northern Ireland ) and Wales have combined together , and we are going to combine together to produce a high profile advertising and marketing campaign to encourage millions of holidaymakers to make nineteen ninety one the summer to explore Britain erm and in a concentrated peak period from the twenty third of March to the twenty eighth of April over eighty five per cent of the U K's adult population will be continuously exposed to the message ‘ Britain 's Great ’ , and I think they will hear it on radio , they will see it on T V , there will large colour supplements and four page advertisements in every popular national newspaper from the Sunday Times to the Sun . |
| 3 | In its present form , rent restriction is causing an appalling wastage of existing accommodation and condemning millions of families to ever-worsening conditions , by restricting rents to levels which render the repair and maintenance of premises impossible . |
| 4 | The people of my constituency are appalled that Monmouth borough council has millions of pounds tied up from the sale of council houses and can not use that money for housing . |
| 5 | If we 're right , he also loathed the complete destruction of Stalinvast — even though he co-operated with Obispal in kindling the hydra , a task that cost millions of lives . ’ |
| 6 | Crumbling masonry means it needs millions of pounds of building work to make sure it is safe . |
| 7 | Seventeen-year-old Asian girl interested in having fun needs millions of friends . |
| 8 | He had a patent and had earned millions of dollars in royalties . |
| 9 | I must admit I was surprised to see so many of the players finding the water on the 18th hole but that just shows how much pressure there is even for players who have won Major Championships and who have earned millions of dollars and pounds from their ability . |
| 10 | On examination , it turns out that this fluid contains millions of sperm . |
| 11 | The International Toxic Waste Action Network is a global coalition of environmental , consumer and other citizen groups , representing millions of people worldwide . |
| 12 | Equally , mobilization drew millions of peasants into closer contact with national affairs and , especially in the urban garrisons behind the lines , created a concentrated pool of peasant discontent far more threatening than that of scattered villagers . |
| 13 | Bulgarian officials have agreed to close the reactor in principle , but want millions of dollars in compensation . |
| 14 | For example , in the 1950s and early 1960s a powerful Joint Committee of Congress committed millions of dollars to the development of civilian nuclear energy technologies under a single federal agency , which handed the technology over , free , to private corporations , which then built nuclear plants . |
| 15 | First , the high fecundity of the adult female parasite , some infected foals passing millions of eggs in the faeces each day . |
| 16 | You do it with your body just like it has been successfully done millions of times before throughout history . |
| 17 | If , however , they were described as services which can bring millions of pounds into the local economy annually , the perception of welfare rights might change . |
| 18 | For developing countries with large populations , the problems contributing to the decline in river dolphin numbers are often closely tied to regional and national economies which support millions of people . |
| 19 | Yet , when frog surface layer is placed on the newt near the mouth region , suckers develop in just the right place even though , in evolution , newts and frogs separated millions of years ago . |
| 20 | The five men , including one convicted murderer , were being tried on charges relating to the 25-day Strangeway prison riot in which inmates caused millions of pounds in damage . |
| 21 | Leading building societies and banks , including Halifax , Abbey National , Nationwide and NatWest , agreed to set millions of pounds to allow hard-pressed borrowers to convert their mortgages to rent . |
| 22 | DARLINGTON 's Bank Top railway station has benefited from a major facelift costing millions of pounds over the last decade . |
| 23 | The fact is , I work in the National Health Service , and regardless of what the media or politicians may say , the reforms are costing millions of pounds setting up a system which is not working . |
| 24 | Supercomputing — High-performance computers costing millions of pounds can not be sited at every university that needs their computational power ; Yet the vast amounts of data they produce require advanced data visualisation techniques for their human understanding . |
| 25 | and he 's planning all this damn , it 's costing millions of pounds and it 's costing thousands of pounds while he 's sat in that dammed office having it all drawn up and |
| 26 | It 's about to launch a Hollywood-style marketing campaign costing millions of pounds . |
| 27 | Hungry , driving people are what roadside restaurants are all about , and no one knows that better than Forte , the undisputed leaders in the field , serving millions of customers a year at hundreds of roadside locations nationwide . |
| 28 | The tanker which ran aground in Alaska , spilling millions of gallons of oil , has been refloated . |
| 29 | It would appear from investigations that this government in nineteen eighty four did a deal with the E E C to close down shipyards in future years , for which they received millions of pounds from E E C funds , and they never used them for the purposes they were supposed to be used for . |
| 30 | By the time it hits a distant screen , this ion-image has expanded millions of times . |