Example sentences of "be three million [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , it was also draining the working class : in 1917 there had been three million workers employed in Russian industry , by the winter of 1920–1 the number had declined to 1,480,000 .
2 There are three million companies in Britain of Which only a thousand employ more than a thousand employees .
3 There are three million refugees from Afghanistan in Pakistan .
4 Well , there are three million people in the U K who suffer from asthma , and about forty percent of that number , er I , I ca n't do the fi , ca n't the figures either , er are allergic to dust mites .
5 In fact , there are thought to be three million people who suffer from it .
6 I think we should note that in the current year , and you 've corrected Mr , that it 's three million pounds extra that we 've spent , even though we 've spent three million pounds extra in May , with our decisions then to restore the sheltered workshops and to give more money to education and to keep elderly peoples homes open .
7 By 1920 , production of Guinness was three million barrels a week .
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