Example sentences of "a million [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a million questions she wanted answering herself . |
| 2 | Maskell first here 's his record … over the years he 's nearly averaging a goal every other game … quarter of a million pounds he cost Swindon … one of the bargain buys of the season … |
| 3 | If she loses , she could be forced to repay almost a third of a million pounds she 's already received . |
| 4 | Two or three years later with half a million troops they are still no further forward in their struggle in Vietnam and the cost this time was to the United States ' political system because the effect upon domestic politics was fairly severe . |
| 5 | Two or three years later with half a million troops they are still no further forward in their struggle in Vietnam and the cost this time was to the United States ' political system because the effect upon domestic politics was fairly severe . |
| 6 | There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there . |
| 7 | We should make a habit of not crossing roads , for instance , for if you crossed a road every day for half a million years you would undoubtedly be run over . |
| 8 | ‘ To set up a million dominoes you need a huge hall that has to be totally isolated for more than six weeks , ’ says Peter Matthews . |
| 9 | But what happens in these clouds is that certain parts of them , certain areas of the cloud start to collapse , and as they collapse the temperature rises and the collapse increases , and as the temperature rises through a thousand to a million degrees we find that these are the regions where stars form , and it is really the major discovery , as far as astronomy is concerned , of the radio research that we now know a lot more about the early stages of star formation . |