Example sentences of "in a million [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I have to worry about is designing , instead of production ETAs or trying to work out my taxes whilst being in a million meetings a day . |
| 2 | The violence in Blackburn , in which riot police were attacked , has resulted in a million pounds worth of damage . |
| 3 | The expressway turns to cross water full of the redness of the sky , and there , floating on the horizon above the shining red water , are the clustered towers of the inner city , purple with distance , lights shining in a million windows — exactly as he has always known they would be . |
| 4 | They landed the King Air at Sir William Robert 's strip there and found a couple of former Irish Air Corps two-seaters and one former Belgian Air Force Mk XIV all in a million bits . |
| 5 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |
| 6 | Now I have met poisoners , dark , subtle souls who can strike at any time and in a million ways . |
| 7 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
| 8 | Government research says that the presence of dioxins in flue gases from plants such as that at Pontypool ‘ are in the low range of parts per trillion ’ ( one part per trillion is of the order of 30 seconds in a million years , or one ounce in 28 million tons ) , and that all the UK PCB-destroying plants together emit only a ‘ few grammes per year ’ . |
| 9 | The SDP were likely to be a far greater danger to us , as disgruntled ex-Conservative voters who would never have voted Labour in a million years turned to a cosy middle party . |
| 10 | Not in a million years . |
| 11 | You 'd never in a million years see a dancing man in a field in the country . |
| 12 | Not in a million years . |
| 13 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 14 | Even if the Sun is shrinking at a rate of merely 0–01 per cent per century it would totally disappear in a million years ; and it would have been twice its present size a million years ago . |
| 15 | It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction . |
| 16 | When the war was over , in a million years , and little Marie asked , ‘ What was your war like , Auntie Vi ? ’ she would tell her , ‘ Drab , queen . |
| 17 | No parent is going to believe this pigtail story , not in a million years . |
| 18 | The Roy I knew would never take that from anyone , not in a million years . ’ |
| 19 | And I could n't tell a triple Axel from a double Salko in a million years , let alone perform one ! |
| 20 | Not in a million years . |
| 21 | I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms . |
| 22 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 23 | There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there . |
| 24 | Ye 'd never have got it out of him in a million years . |
| 25 | Other world-wide eustatic causes of sea level change include sedimentary infilling of ocean basins which could give a sea level rise of 4 mm/100 years equivalent to 40 m in a million years ( Higgins , 1965 ) ; orogenic eustasy whereby orogenic uplift creates ocean basins of different size ; geoidal eustasy whereby the ocean surface reflects the variations in the geoid surface due to the earth 's irregular distribution of mass which can give a difference between lows and highs of as much as 180 m . |
| 26 | From historical records it can be deduced that there have been more than two hundred notable tsunami in the last two thousand years ; this would allow us more than 100 000 in a million years . |
| 27 | For some reason the thought that he seriously did n't care one way or another what her opinions were wounded her pride more than she would ever have admitted in a million years . |
| 28 | The real reason for her lack of promotion , she knew , would never in a million years occur to him . |
| 29 | Not in a million years , Mr. Kopek . |
| 30 | It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years . |