Example sentences of "is [adj] million [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the total cost of the Buxtehude experiment is 5.0 million DM , yet the saving in accident compensation has been estimated at 1.4 million DM for the first year of the experiment alone . |
| 2 | The police national computer mark 2 came on stream last autumn , and I understand that its direct access capacity is 190 million bytes , with a further 80,000 million bytes available as back-up on disk . |
| 3 | His name Charles , his job director of the city bank Merrel-Lynch , his task to decide which airline staff here can fly , his annual budget for this is six million pounds . |
| 4 | Interest in the possibility that neutrinos might oscillate intensified later that year with the result from an experiment at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics at Moscow , which implied a small mass of 34 electron volts for the electron-antineutrino ( the electron 's mass is 0–5 million electron volts ) . |
| 5 | Er the cost is fourteen million pounds for that machining unit for conrods . |
| 6 | In India , for example , 6000 million t of topsoil are lost annually , while in the highlands of Ethiopia the annual figure is 1600 million t ( Earth Report 1988 ) . |
| 7 | The only aid agreed up to now is 50 million ecu pledged by the EC . |
| 8 | ‘ Their entire research budget is five million dollars . |
| 9 | IBM and Microsoft developed OS/2 together , as they had previously done with DOS , but sales did not go well — the latest claim from IBM is one million copies sold . |
| 10 | In practice , the limitation of this technique , called dithering , is 16 million colours , but the capabilities of the printer depend on the software being used . |
| 11 | ( Remember that the age of the Earth is 4,600 million years . ) |
| 12 | PLANET EARTH IS 4,600 MILLION YEARS OLD |
| 13 | ( Each TWh is 1000 million kilowatt-hours , kWh . ) |
| 14 | This is several million years older than the previously oldest known fossil ape from Meswa Bridge in the Koru area , and if this specimen is indeed a fossil hominoid it puts the date for hominoid origins at least to 25Myr . |
| 15 | For a unit atomic mass q/m is 96 million coulombs per kg . |
| 16 | ‘ Tell me , Miss Beard , is it true that Mr Astor 's income is two million dollars a year , four dollars a minute ? |
| 17 | Doug wants to sell it at its street value , which is two million dollars . |
| 18 | There is 20 million pounds earmarked for them . |