Example sentences of "be a million [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos you know they 're a million times ahead . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're a million miles from that . |
| 3 | The British government over the water could have been a million miles away ( for detailed accounts see Arthur 1984 ; Buckland 1979 ; Farrell 1976 ; for a summary see McAllister 1983 ; for a summary of all forms of discrimination adopted , see Whyte 1983 ; Hillyard 1983 ) . |
| 4 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 5 | Could have been a million miles away . |
| 6 | But it might as well have been a million miles away . |
| 7 | This fool butterfly must have been a chrysallis — there are a million tortoiseshells pirouetting on the purple flowers all the warm months — a chrysallis left from last August . |
| 8 | The fact is that they are a million times better than many of the new trainers on the market and a lot harder to find . |
| 9 | But in a written statement Chelsea said tonight : ’ As far as the playing situation is concerned we are a million miles apart and we 're quite happy if necessary for it to be settled by the Football League appeals procedure . ’ |
| 10 | The local density in our galaxy could be a million times higher than this figure if primordial black holes were concentrated in the ‘ halo ’ of galaxies — the thin cloud of rapidly moving stars in which each galaxy is embedded — rather than being uniformly distributed throughout the universe . |
| 11 | There 'd be a million fools by now , |
| 12 | Yeah , there must be a million Marks about |
| 13 | There were a million questions she wanted answering herself . |
| 14 | There were a million things . |
| 15 | So here we were a million miles away from his world of steak and more steak and steak Tartare and steak Bernaise and Moet and Lanson and Dom Perignon . |
| 16 | So it 's a million times minus a million . |
| 17 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 18 | I further question the policy erm which , erm just mentioned , the average salary issue is that we want , erm that 's , that 's gon na cost us a million pounds next year , but we are doing it , so there 's a million pounds in growth in everybody 's er budget and basically everybody 's budget when we come to later . |
| 19 | If we 're going to increase nursery provision , we 've got to do it by putting , putting money where our mouths are , huh , putting our money where perhaps some Conservative government peoples ' mouths are as well , and they 're all very keen to will the ends but they 're not so keen to will the means , anyway this is the means , there 's a million pounds here erm , next year we we effect , and other members can speak about that and the work that they first have erm , I do notice that , that the latest report from the erm commission on on education and the book we all had to read does give us this first priority , er provision in nursery education particularly in areas , er deprived areas . |
| 20 | Now again you see i there 's a million ways that you can do it . |
| 21 | It 's a million miles away from a cold wet evening in Hereford , but that does n't dampen the enthusiasm of the Holmer School Steel Band . |
| 22 | It 's a million miles in style from our usual sweeping lawns and landscaped vistas , but in the latest in our series Summer Gardens , we visit the little piece of England where a little really HAS to go a long way . |
| 23 | There 's a million bands in America like them . |
| 24 | One of the priorities is a million pounds that 's been spent on community consultation structure and about a quarter of a million on a marketing and public relations unit . |
| 25 | Measures underway to effect this are ; increased substitution of gas for oil in industrial complexes and combined heat and power ( CHP ) schemes , but it is still reckoned that the USSR is a million miles behind the West in terms of energy efficiency . |
| 26 | But his luxury home , complete with a trout farm and stables , is a million miles from the council prefab he was brought up in during the '50s . |
| 27 | The world of interface development goals and positive confrontation resolution is a million miles from fast wickets and slow bowlers . |
| 28 | Happiness on Mary 's face reveals more than words about contemporary care that is a million miles from formal institutions of the past . |
| 29 | ‘ But equally , when you get to Lavondyss you may find that Harry is a million years away . |
| 30 | Stefan : It was a million light-years away from our planet . |