Example sentences of "[art] million [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God needs his nourishment , his daily fix of souls as by the million every day we drop off the perch , and so Bernard and Apricot — renamed Ellen as a condition of marriage — if they 're to do God 's will , must reproduce till the cows come home , though nowadays of course the cows never leave home in the first place , they 're linked up permanently to milking machines . |
| 2 | Though Pitt was always sceptical about the likelihood of an invasion he clearly thought the extra half a million a year it cost to keep the militia under arms was money well spent . |
| 3 | By 1964 there were 4.4 million TV sets ; a second TV channel began transmitting programming in April ; the amount of programming transmitted by the two channels rose from 4000 hours annually to 7400 hours ( 1964–7 ) ; the number of TV sets rose by a million a year between 1964 and 1967 . |
| 4 | But this , at a million a year , was a cheap dream . |
| 5 | Summonses for non-payment are now running at a million a year |
| 6 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 7 | What 's a bit , a million a year or ? |
| 8 | and it 's likely to be at half a million a year , and the production will start in nineteen |
| 9 | More than 40 per cent of the output is exported to overseas markets : the equivalent of over 300 million pints annually or almost a million a day . |
| 10 | Peskibe continues to thrive , operational profits there are now well over a million a week and I think it 's worth remembering that one subscriber may have three subscriptions say to two movie channels and one sports channels and if you count these individually , it means that we now have four point nine million subscriptions achieved during the second worst recession , recession this century . |
| 11 | This should beat a recent ban on the plastic variety — half a million a month used to litter the seas and endanger dolphins , whales and turtles . |
| 12 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Windows 3.1 is the biggest selling application of all time , with unit sales of around a million a month . |
| 13 | A House of Commons Library reference note on the latest housing benefit changes points out that these cuts alone will result in an annual saving of £1.8 billion ( Public Expenditure White Paper , Cmnd. 228 — II , table 15.6 ) , while reducing by about a million the number of people eligible for housing benefit . |