Example sentences of "million [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In mid-January India had secured from the IMF the equivalent of US$1,800 million ( $777 million as the first tranche of a standby arrangement and $1,009 million under the compensatory and contingency financing facility — CCFF ) in order to boost foreign exchange reserves which had been eroded by rising oil prices and the loss of remittances from the Gulf and which had reached an unprecedented low in late 1990 . |
| 2 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Sept. 7 reported that in its memorandum submitted to the UN Security Council , Jordan had claimed that the Iraqi embargo would cost Jordan some US$4,000 million during the first 12 months and that the country 's foreign debt would become virtually unmanageable . |
| 3 | By 1970 there were more than half a million students at a now expanded network of higher education , and in 1980 the number exceeded a million for the first time , taking in roughly a quarter of the relevant age group . |
| 4 | The company swung the axe before revealing pre-tax losses of £129 million for the first half of this year . |
| 5 | Days lost through sickness passed 500 million for the first time . |
| 6 | The agreement gives London Electricity responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the systems while BAA will pay it an annual fee , set at £13.5 million for the first year , linked to the retail price index . |
| 7 | " Last year our friends and allies provided the bulk of the economic costs of Desert Shield , and having now received commitments of over $40,000 million for the first three months of 1991 , I am confident that they will do no less as we move through Desert Storm . |
| 8 | The country recorded a current-account deficit of US$2,430 million for the first 11 months , a 63 per cent increase over the equivalent period for 1989 . |
| 9 | Turnover increased by 10 per cent over 1991 and exceeded £200 million for the first time , despite the suspension of the Hibernia project . |
| 10 | Orient Express announced a loss of $5 million for the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 11 | As unemployment climbed above three million for the first time in six years , the latest figures showed our region has been hard hit by the recession . |
| 12 | BRITAIN 'S unemployment soared above 2.6 million for the first time in over four years yesterday after a bigger than expected surge in the number of people out of work . |
| 13 | But Cosby will still pick up £7 million from the first series . |
| 14 | Kingfisher is raising £155 million from the first call of 225p a share on a one-for-seven rights issue , with another 225p payable at the company 's discretion . |
| 15 | In 1986 , the Secretary of State for the Environment , Nicholas Ridley , announced the creation of four more UDCs ( see Figure 2 , p. xii ) , each expected to spend about £150 million in the first five years of their existence . |
| 16 | Each fund would receive $1.5 million in the first year of the scheme , increasing to $6 million by 1987 . |
| 17 | In Britain the biggest box-office hit was Batman Returns with Pounds 2.77 million in the first three days . |
| 18 | Profits have dropped by a fifth to £34.8 million in the first half of this year , and he 's not expecting an early recovery . |
| 19 | WITH the road to recovery blocked , profits of hauliers NFC stayed jammed at £66 million in the first nine months of this trading year . |
| 20 | PROFITS of Central TV jumped from £3.4 million to £15 million in the first half of this year . |
| 21 | This has helped lift profits of Unilever , the Wall 's ice cream to Persil food and detergents giant , by 10 per cent to £888 million in the first half of this year . |
| 22 | According to one estimate , these abuses and the ravages of European diseases and starvation reduced the indigenous population of the Americas from 100 to 10 million in the first century of conquest . |
| 23 | AS GATES FORECASTS NT SALES OF A MILLION IN THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS |
| 24 | Plans for the service , which will cost about US$ 1 million in the first year , have been delayed by lack of funds . |
| 25 | Taubman took out $47 million in the first public share offering when Sotheby 's shares were successfully floated in 1988 . |
| 26 | to £225 million in the first half of the year — a substantial sum . |
| 27 | $2,400 million in the first quarter . |
| 28 | Accordingly the agreement involved tax increases — totalling $134,000 million in the first year alone — and included new taxes on petrol , alcohol and luxury items . |
| 29 | On Oct. 14 Norway 's second largest bank , Christiana Bank og Kreditkasse ( already receiving substantial state assistance — see p. 38486 ) , announced that it was technically bankrupt , with losses of NKr7,200 million in the first three quarters of 1991 . |
| 30 | On Aug. 4 Kazakh radio had reported that trade between Kazakhstan and the Chinese autonomous district of Ili Kazak had totalled US$122 million in the first four months of 1992 . |