Example sentences of "for the [num] million " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the 500 million yen in illicit political donations which he acknowledged having received from Watanabe , he claimed not to remember to whom it was distributed , and suggested that his secretary , Masahisa Haibara , who had directly received the money from Watanabe , should be questioned on the matter . |
| 2 | It is not healthy for the 45 million people of England to be so dependent both economically and politically on decisions made at the centre . |
| 3 | But for the 8 million taxpayers who have to fill in a tax return each year , the current arrangements are very far from simple . ’ |
| 4 | Not too complicated , it would seem , for the 3.4 million shareholders who sold their electricity distribution company shares within two months of their issue . |
| 5 | These sharp increases will contrast with below-inflation rent rises of 95 pence a week in about 156 local authority areas , as the Government for the first time moves away from a single national rents policy for the 4.5 million council tenants in England . |
| 6 | If Clinton is to keep faith with the electors , he will invest in jobs for the 10 million on the dole , provide for wide-ranging health care for all and implement drastic tax reforms . |
| 7 | Some Labour politicians want the important decisions in the Party , selecting Labour candidates , or electing the leader , to be made only by the two hundred thousand individual members , without any voice for the four million trade union levy payers at all . |
| 8 | ANOTHER drop in the inflation rate was cold comfort yesterday for the 2.74 million jobless . |
| 9 | Two vector units will have four million apiece and there will be four to eight million for the two million bits of on-board RAM . |
| 10 | CBR campaigns to improve the rights , conditions and living standards for the 2.6 million private tenants living in bedsits , shared houses , lodgings , flatlets , hostels and B&B hotels . |
| 11 | After all , there has been little in the real world to justify optimism : economic activity has continued to fall — down 2.5% in 1991 and close to 0.8% in 1992 — unemployment is heading for the 3 million mark , business failures in 1992 ran 31% ahead of a year earlier . |
| 12 | Our idea — which would involve wheeling a building large enough to cover London 's Tower Bridge over the damaged reactor — gained us a $ prize and , more importantly , an automatic place on the short list for bidding for the 3 million ECU feasibility contract . |
| 13 | Transportation to the slaughterhouse is also a problems for the 600 million meat chickens , called broilers , which are eaten in the UK each year . |
| 14 | The CAB invests considerable time and energy in improving the standards of advice-giving for the seven million enquiries each year . |
| 15 | It will be impractical to fix a levy that is as fair for the three million owners of normal-speed machines as it is for future owners of half-speed machines . |
| 16 | The downside for the three million Singaporeans is a lack of political freedom and a strictly-controlled press . |