Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [num] of [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | In February 1990 , a firm called Garston Amhurst , a tied agent of Target , the life company sold by TSB to Equity & Law in January at a substantial loss , was shut down by the Securities and Investments Board after £2 million of investors ' money went missing . |
2 | Mr Maclean said the use of £2.3 million of taxpayers ' money in buying Orford Ness seemed a lot , but he was sure that future historians would regard it as money well spent . |
3 | Questions could be asked about the failure of the NRA to include in its cost estimate the sum of £6 million of taxpayers ' money that it has already spent promoting the scheme , or it could consider any of the indirect costs arising from the construction of the channel . |
4 | A healthy distrust since Big Bang in October 1986 of stockbrokers ' research . |
5 | Will he also condemn the scandalous proposal that when the PSA is privatised , up to £85 million of taxpayers ' money should be handed over by the Government to Tarmac , which will take it over , so that any proposed redundancies of men and women in the PSA will be paid not by the privatising company but by the taxpayer ? |