Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeds Diocese has to find more than £1 million a year towards the cost of Catholic schools . |
| 2 | And so the wish-lists of Arran , Cumbrae , Cowal , the rest of Argyll and west Moray — where the Highland MEP , Winnie Ewing , has a home — will have to wait until June , when the heavily lobbied council of ministers finally approve — or not — what could be more than £20 million a year for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 3 | Yesterday , Norman Lamont presented the bill for that cleverness , with a demand for more than £10,000 million a year in extra taxation from 1995/6 onwards . |
| 4 | THE man from the Pru is shelling out more than £10 million a DAY on insurance settlements and maturing savings plans . |
| 5 | In the bid to save Africa 's elephants , WWF is spending more than £2 million a year on 30 projects in 14 African countries . |
| 6 | It was worth on average more than £2 million a year from 1786 to 1790 and £2.5 million in the following quinquennium . |
| 7 | But Government put more than £2 billion a year into UK farming now and would put an extra £2.4 billion in over the next three years . |
| 8 | According to the Health and Safety Executive it costs British Industry more than £2 billion a year in absenteeism . |
| 9 | Currently , just over £20 million is spent annually on renewable energy research and development , compared to more than £200 million a year on nuclear power . |
| 10 | The Queen reportedly earns more than £6 million a year from her £6.5 billion assets . |
| 11 | With PRT also abolished on new projects , analysts suggest the changes could be worth more than £100 million a year to BP . |
| 12 | Among the 12 recipients are : Johnson Matthey , whose autocatalysts , are world leaders in a global market worth hundreds of millions of pounds a year ; Pilkington , whose energy saving glass is projected to be worth more than £100 million a year by the late 1990s ; Agricultural Genetics Company and Horticultural Research International , which have developed biological alternatives to chemical pesticides ; Sericol , for the development of water-based screen printing inks ; Ricoh UK Products , for chlorofluorocarbon ( CFC ) elimination in selenium drum production ; and Kerry Ultrasonics , whose water-based cleaning system replaces the need for CFCs . |
| 13 | Regional Councils currently spend more than £300 million a year on Social Work Services , or some 10% of their total expenditure . |
| 14 | The US provides more than $1 million a day to the Salvadorean Government . |
| 15 | The value of world trade collapsed from $3 billion a month at the start of 1929 to less than $1 billion a month by the beginning of 1933 . |
| 16 | But advocates of renewable energy point out that the new budget still leaves the field far behind where it stood more than a decade ago , when President Jimmy Carter spent as much as $800 million a year on renewable research . |
| 17 | The Americans may have contributed as much as $1 billion a year to the Philippine economy in rent for the base , pay for the local people and the money spent on women , booze and other necessities . |