Example sentences of "[num] million [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tore up the Pope 's picture in front of 30 million TV viewers . |
| 2 | VISCOUNT has revolutionised the work of Lending Services , because it provides a greatly improved means of access to both bibliographical and library location information : the system currently details over 30 million library locations for more than 3 million titles ! |
| 3 | There are an estimated 30 million cannabis users , 1.7 million opium-dependent and 0.7 million heroin-dependent people in the world . |
| 4 | According to an estimate by the entanglement Network , a coalition of 18 environmental groups in Washington , DC , lost or discarded plastic is killing up to 2 million sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals each year . |
| 5 | 2 MILLION WATCH ARMADA 'S LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL |
| 6 | Some criterion must then be devised for dividing these shares between the potentially more than 2 million investor applications . |
| 7 | They are likely to influence , for instance , the negotiations between leaders of 2 million engineering workers and the Engineering Employers Federation . |
| 8 | Then , in a fit of excess , he ratcheted it up to a full 2 million job losses . |
| 9 | For many , the roads debate therefore rested on measures of speed restriction and road safety , but with 2 million motor cars on British roads in 1939 , and urban congestion a growing problem , this was scarcely a satisfactory situation . |
| 10 | In the interim report of the Tripartite Coal Industry Examination in 1974 , the NCB , the unions and the government accepted the elimination of ‘ a broad average of some 3–4 million tonne capacity a year ’ . |
| 11 | The 53 million renewal programme at the Park Royal Brewery in West London is well underway , with the project due for completion in 1994 . |
| 12 | I believe we are a forty million pound organisation . |
| 13 | A forty million pound organisation needs proper management , and therefore you do have costs on top of it , and they are proper costs . |
| 14 | It 's we 're very conscious that erm the costs that we 've incurred we need to keep strapped down to a minimum , but we have to manage a forty million pound organisation and you can not do this on the back of an envelope . |
| 15 | Two airmen have appeared in court on a forty million pound arson charge after a fire destroyed a hangar at an RAF base . |
| 16 | Two airman charged with starting a forty million pound fire at an RAF parachute packing centre have been released on bail , and given bodyguards . |
| 17 | A report from the Health and Safety Commission says that 23.2 million working days were lost to work-related injuries . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , they say , Windows NT will be fundamental in Microsoft 's strategy to move it business from desktop personal computers — MS-DOS already runs on about 90% of the 140 million PC machines worldwide — to mid-range and high-end systems . |
| 19 | Tim lost his job as the Queen 's equerry and was made commander of the Pounds 140 million frigate HMS Boxer . |
| 20 | It 's the sixty-four million dollar question . |
| 21 | The fenestral discovery , incidentally , also filled in a missing link to provide a 300 million year sequence of fossils showing a smooth evolution from reptiles to mammals . |
| 22 | In order to provide 300 million twig tips , only 29 successive doublings would be required . |
| 23 | LOYD Grossman has spent six years showing 12 million TV viewers how the other half live . |
| 24 | But 3M , the US company , is already making 12 million video tapes a year in Gorseinon , South Wales and employing 950 people . |
| 25 | This will enable items from the 12 million volume London holdings to be retrieved within 30 minutes . |
| 26 | Fourteen million holidaymakers go to the Lake District every year , while 12 million visit Snowdonia in Wales . |
| 27 | The scheme was launched in 1975 , at a time of high oil prices ; today , more than 4 million of Brazil 's 12 million car owners use vehicles powered by sugar-cane alcohol ( or ethanol ) . |
| 28 | But the power of this strong life-giving vibration is said to wane slowly over a 4.32 million year period , until man even forgets that he is really alive and conscious . |
| 29 | She demanded that Education Secretary John Patten apologise to Britain 's six million State schoolchildren — for forcing them to share text books in overcrowded classrooms . |
| 30 | Producer Curt Hamilton said : ‘ You 've heard of the six million dollar man — this is the 10 million dollar bum . ’ |