Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] million " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area was littered with the carcases of livestock in scenes reminiscent of the 1984–85 famine that left up to a million dead and prompted Bob Geldof 's Band Aid campaign . |
| 2 | During the lifetime of the roof they will have to deal with up to a million gallons of water and will be subjected to the sun 's ultra-violet rays , frost , snow and wind . |
| 3 | Finally , they provide databases offering online access to extensive files of bibliographical information ( up to a million records , in one case ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The communist regime that finally fell from power last week was , in many respects , a repetition of Amanullah on a grander , and far bloodier , scale : the war provoked by the 1978 ‘ revolution ’ , and the reaction to it have left up to a million dead , a third of the 16-million population displaced . |
| 6 | Washington ordered the initial 1,800 heavily armed troops to sweep into the capital to save up to a million Somalis starving to death . |
| 7 | IXI believes other hardware vendors could be drawn into the initiative as many spend up to a million dollars maintaining their separate Motif developments . |
| 8 | They reckon it 's up to a million now . ’ |
| 9 | Up to a million Armenians , by late February , were reported to be demonstrating daily in the city 's Opera Square . |
| 10 | Fortune seekers , up to a million of them , have inflicted terrible damage upon the environment , on public health and law and order . |
| 11 | My guess is about 2 million with up to a million more with decent European runs/ cup runs etc . |
| 12 | The US Energy Department and the Westinghouse concern significantly under-reported leaks of up to a million gallons of radioactive water from storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation , according to a General Accounting Office ( GAO ) report . |
| 13 | The RSPB estimates that , on average , up to 1.5 million waders and up to a million wildfowl spend the winters on the UK coasts , about 80 per cent of them on estuaries . |
| 14 | Both driver ants and army ants have exceptionally large colonies , up to a million in army ants , up to about 20 million in driver ants . |
| 15 | Phillips Auctioneers in Oxford is working with other branches throughout Britain to raise up to a million pounds for local charities in the ITV Telethon '92 . |
| 16 | President Bush declared a state of emergency as up to a million people fled their homes . |
| 17 | UP TO a million people have fled from northern Rwanda to escape fresh fighting between rebels and government forces , relief workers said yesterday . |
| 18 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |