Example sentences of "a [adj] million [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Central Bank plan to complete a 950,000 million cruzados ( approximately US$14,000 million ) liquidity squeeze by Sept. 17 began in early September . |
| 2 | PAUL STEWART is now a 2.3 million midfield player at Liverpool but he is the first to admit it needed a referee 's red card to make it all happen . |
| 3 | Edmontosaurus The skeleton of a 70 million year old plant-eating dinosaur ( 9 metres long ) from South Dakota , USA |
| 4 | He said and do you know that we 're a multi- million pound organization . |
| 5 | The new Earl also inherited a 2.25 million bill for death duties as well as 80,000 a year running costs . |
| 6 | Two airmen have appeared in court on a forty million pound arson charge after a fire destroyed a hangar at an RAF base . |
| 7 | Two airman charged with starting a forty million pound fire at an RAF parachute packing centre have been released on bail , and given bodyguards . |
| 8 | I believe we are a forty million pound organisation . |
| 9 | A forty million pound organisation needs proper management , and therefore you do have costs on top of it , and they are proper costs . |
| 10 | It 's we 're very conscious that erm the costs that we 've incurred we need to keep strapped down to a minimum , but we have to manage a forty million pound organisation and you can not do this on the back of an envelope . |
| 11 | They 're very big landowners — probably worth quite a few million piasters . " |
| 12 | This technology allows us to produce particle beams with enormous power ( up to a million amps at a few million volts ) but very short duration , typically one ten-millionth of a second . |
| 13 | He could , of course , join a few million others and draw the dole . |
| 14 | As a lowly , poorly paid teacher and a member of Mensa , I wonder if RUNNING could put me in touch with sponsors and promoters who might make me a few million pounds over the next couple of years , even though I 'm not Canadian . |
| 15 | Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later . |
| 16 | And it must be prepared to lose a few million pounds in the process . |
| 17 | There are a few other initiatives that , for a capital sum of a few million pounds , hold the prospect of bringing forward such a radical transformation of the immediate circumstances of poorer people , and the extent to which they control their own lives . |
| 18 | Well for the sake of a few million pounds the Conservatives will slash this area , that area , will say we need to close this unit , that unit . |
| 19 | By investing a few million pounds into the anti-poaching forces of Kenya and Tanzania , as is happening at the moment , we will probably reduce and even stop the poaching problem for the time being but the long-term survival of the elephant in eastern Africa is going to depend ultimately on those countries ' abilities to incorporate wildlife and wild area protection into an overall land use policy . |
| 20 | ‘ The national media attention given to Pwllheli , in the run-up to the final decision , must be worth a few million pounds in advertising terms alone . ’ |
| 21 | Mount Charlotte Investments , the hotels group , has awarded a £5 million contract to Tarmac Construction to carry out the work after buying the site 's freehold from Edinburgh District Council for ‘ a few million pounds ’ . |
| 22 | Or tell them , tell them there 's a few million pounds worth of gold coins in some field ! |
| 23 | He 's worth a few million pennies at the moment . |
| 24 | ‘ A few miles of convent floor to polish , a few million sheets to hem . |
| 25 | By the end of the Palaeocene , only a few million years from the Cretaceous extinction of the giant reptiles , there were representatives of many of the living mammalian orders , including , for example , the primates ( the order to which man belongs ) , the carnivores ( cats dogs , and most living predators ) and the rodents ( rats , mice ) . |
| 26 | To do this will involve discussion of concepts which you may not immediately associate with volcanoes : the fact that Africa and South America were once joined and later drifted apart ; that the direction which is customarily thought of as ‘ north ’ would , a few million years ago , have appeared to be ‘ south ’ on an ordinary magnetic compass . |
| 27 | by no means all rhyolite lavas are associated with obsidian — the majority are not — and , as one goes further back through the geological record , obsidian becomes progressively more and more scarce , due to devitrification , and none at all is found in rocks more than a few million years old . |
| 28 | Probably the waves cut the cliffs of weak killas far back inland , over a period of a few million years . |
| 29 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 30 | If the land is all eroded into the sea in a matter of a few million years , how does the system keep on running ? |