Example sentences of "the million or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A popular health-service argument was that every one of the million or so staff should get exactly the same percentage increase in pay — as though the recruitment and retention position was the same for all . |
| 2 | Public health doctors are more likely to influence public health if they collaborate with the million or so people employed in the health service . |
| 3 | By the early 1980s only a few thousand of the million or so who lived elsewhere in the USSR had been able to return , despite an active campaign on their behalf by dissidents as well as Tatar activists . |
| 4 | Few of the million or so visitors who take advantage of the Garden as a public amenity each year are aware of the scientific heritage behind the Garden , or indeed of the high level of scientific work which goes on behind the scenes today . |
| 5 | Perhaps by then the Government may have some strategy that will provide work for the million or so unemployed that it overlooks while compiling the official figures . |
| 6 | Intel told the Wall Streeter it was expecting to deliver Pentiums in the low hundreds of thousands this year , not the million or more anticipated . |
| 7 | Intel said it was expecting to deliver Pentiums in the low hundreds of thousands this year , not the million or more anticipated . |