Example sentences of "is [adj] [adj] million " in BNC.

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1 disk is fifty six million bytes in size , and er you used most of them down to three million left available .
2 But some experts believe the KGB 's true total workforce is nearer two million and includes any Russian visiting or working abroad such as journalists , airline personnel and trade representatives , since every Russian is expected to spy for his country and upon other Russians too .
3 Indeed , even at the pressures of the centre of the Sun , where the temperature is some fifteen million degrees , the conditions are n't extreme enough .
4 Iraq 's oil production is some 1 million barrels per day less than Iran 's but its war effort has been supported by aid from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait both by direct practical aid and by gifts of oil , sent out from Saudi and Kuwaiti ports , but marketed by Iraq .
5 That itself is some forty million pounds below the association of Welsh counties assessment of what is actually needed to meet the needs of the community and it is in any event not available for general spending .
6 But there is another 7 million tonnes , of equivalent calorific value , in the straw of the wheat and barley which has in the past been burnt in the fields after harvest .
7 Now the population of the world is three thousand million .
8 that one is seventy two million
9 And and and this which is a minus twenty four , is one million million million millionth .
10 That is 250 000 million litres for every man , woman and child ( 1 cubic kilometre is 10 12 litres ) .
11 Eyes do n't fossilize , so we do n't know how long our type of eye took to evolve its present complexity and perfection from nothing , but the time available is several hundred million years .
12 Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to .
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