Example sentences of "[n mass] [num] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The profession can not be certain how much this will save , as it depends on the amount provided for when the supply estimates were settled ; but we estimate a saving of £15 million on the assumption that the Government would have provided for a 1.5% increase . |
| 2 | It is extraordinary to describe the Government or Welsh Office as philistine when the Government are currently spending £21 million on the extension and development of the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff . |
| 3 | In 1976 , Mr Clark Hutchison underlined his opposition to the establishment of a Scottish assembly by making an unsuccessful attempt to block Government plans to spend £1 million on the purchase and conversion of the Royal High School , Edinburgh , to house the Scottish assembly . |
| 4 | The circuit 's owners , the exclusive British Racing Drivers ' Club , whose members include Nigel Mansell , Stirling Moss , James Hunt and Jackie Stewart , admit that they need to spend £15-20 million on the track if it is to continue as home of the British Grand Prix . |
| 5 | English Nature , the statutory body which advises the government on nature conservation in England , has been allocated an additional £1.04 million for the protection and management of wildlife sites . |
| 6 | They have announced plans to invest more than £38 million in the area and to attract a further £23 million from the private sector . |
| 7 | Lord Rosebery responded quickly by saying that he would still sell to the nation , but was increasing the price from £2 to £3 million for the house and contents . |
| 8 | And then there 's poor Aldershot , over £1.2 million in the red and looking for handouts . |
| 9 | Following the Health and Safety ( Emissions into the Atmosphere ) Regulations 1983 , referred to earlier it is expected that local authorities will take over the responsibility for prosecuting persons for such offences , as Regulation 7 repeals s.78(3) of the 1974 Act which had required proceedings to be instituted by an inspector appointed under s. 19 of the Health and Safety at Work , etc . |
| 10 | If the deal is accepted , Fulham will share Stamford Bridge with Chelsea , paying in excess of £13 million for the ground while the £5 million Cabra owe Fulham will be waived . |
| 11 | Let us think what we could do with that £2.5 billion in the health or education services . |
| 12 | Hong Kong Land , owned by big Hong-Kong-based trading group Jardine Matheson , paid £79 million for the stake and wants to buy more . |
| 13 | Incident comet velocities are 25kms -1 and 50kms -1 for the short-period and long-period cases , respectively ; again these are approximate median values . |
| 14 | Assets valued at depreciated replacement cost amounted to £54.3 million in the group and £24.1 million in the company ( 1992 £52.5 million and £24.1 million respectively ) . |
| 15 | The sums involved were colossal : over £0.5 million for the spire and the roof . |
| 16 | There was now over £1,000 million on the table and the unions had refused to discuss it . |
| 17 | This leaves the two bands , near 400 cm -1 for the dichloride and near 300 cm -1 for the dibromide , as the GeX stretches , and the lowest frequency band in each case as the deformation . |
| 18 | Under an Appeal Court ruling , Chelsea have until tonight to meet Cabra 's asking price of £22.85 million for the ground or face possible winding-up procedings . |
| 19 | Even as American investment slumped from £100 million annually at its peak to around £30 million at the beginning or the 1970s , the US companies were still doing a lot more for the British film industry than the British seemed able to do for themselves . |
| 20 | Forstmann Little , the New York investment firm which has controlled Gulfstream Aerospace since its acquisition from Chrysler in 1990 , has invested a further $250 million in the company and repurchased the 31 per cent shareholding held by company founder Allen Paulson , who remains as chairman . |