Example sentences of "million [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wellcome , the drugs firm which makes AZT , suffered a slide on the stock market , wiping £800 million off the company 's shares at one stage . |
| 2 | The early drop wiped around £800 million off the company 's market capitalisation — before staging a modest comeback to stand 51p down . |
| 3 | Market leader Thomson wiped a total of £50 million off the cost of trips abroad . |
| 4 | The hon. Member for Sherwood ( Mr. Stewart ) wiped about £30 million or £40 million off the take from the coal industry . |
| 5 | The British Government , despite widespread support for investment in , and expansion of , training , is cutting £350 million off the training budget . |
| 6 | The hon. Member for Dagenham quite rightly used the Government figure of £780 million as the amount by which the discount system will be beneficial to single-person households . |
| 7 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , my right hon. Friend has granted the islands council consent to borrow up to £24 million during the rest of this financial year . |
| 8 | An overall increase of 4.4 per cent was expected in investment on the mainland during 1990 which , according to Chinese officials , would bring Taiwanese investment in the mainland to US$4,400 million during the year . |
| 9 | External debt servicing would cost Sh73,600 million during the year . |
| 10 | We invested £3 million during the year to provide a 32,000 square foot gas turbine component repair facility for Rolls Wood Group and a 15,000 square foot workshop for Lincoln Turbine Service to further develop their expertise in GEC , Ruston and Solar turbines . |
| 11 | Debt was slashed by £36 million to £73.2 million during the year , but there is still no dividend — nothing was paid for 1991 — because of the board 's ‘ determination ’ to continue to cut borrowings , the company said . |
| 12 | When Arab governments refused to provide the subsidies promised to the late government Husayn turned to the United States , which provided a $10 million emergency grant , and a further $30 million during the course of the year . |
| 13 | The population of Korea averaged around eight million during the Yi era but increased rapidly in the twentieth century growing from approximately ten million in 1900 to about thirty million in 1949 . |
| 14 | ROYAL Scottish Assurance doubled its profit contribution to the Royal Bank to £6.3 million during the half-year to 31 March . |
| 15 | It was estimated that sales of the detector to Otis had earned the employer over £4 million during the period 1982 to 1986 and the revenue generated by these sales represented at least 80% of the employer 's turnover . |
| 16 | The same day Henry Ford paid $8 million for the company , a price set by the presiding judge . |
| 17 | Erm on the financial side , I do n't think savings of a hundred thousand pound or the pay an non-executive out of a budget of two and hundred eighty million for the total of the three health authority is actually a heck of a big saving to justify what 's happening ! |
| 18 | The number of council tax payers in Scotland will be just over 2 million , compared with 3.7 million for the poll tax . |
| 19 | The consideration of £105.8 million for the Deminex transaction will be received in two halves . |
| 20 | On Nov. 14 Amato submitted to parliament an ambitious programme of privatization to raise L 27,000,000 million for the Treasury over the next three years , leaving the state with only " significant " minority holdings in many sectors . |
| 21 | Details of the rises , expected to raise an extra £278 million for the NHS , were revealed by Health Minister Dr Brian Mawhinney in a Commons written reply . |
| 22 | English Nature , the statutory body which advises the government on nature conservation in England , has been allocated an additional £1.04 million for the protection and management of wildlife sites . |
| 23 | The whole business has lasted nearly seven years and cost an estimated £25 million for the trial alone ; not to mention the cost of the DTI inquiry , the takeover panel investigation and the cost of extraditing certain defendants from the US . |
| 24 | It included $2,890 million for the Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI ) programme ( $1,700 million less than originally requested by the Defence Department ) ; $2,350 million for the B-2 Stealth bomber project ; $688 million for the MX and Midgetman intercontinental ballistic missile programmes ( although no funds were authorized for MX rail deployment ) ; $1,840 million for the purchase of 52 Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles ; and $964 million for the development of a new generation of fighter aircraft . |
| 25 | They are reported to be willing to contribute up to $2 million for the South Pacific leg of the cruise . |
| 26 | Last year Warren Spring carried out research worth £5 million for the DoE and some current work may now have to be put out to tender . |
| 27 | This is a happy solution to the museum 's underlying financial problems exacerbated by the decision to show the first of the Memphis , Tenessee , WONDERS ( sic ) series of exhibitions , ‘ Catherine the Great ’ , which instead of making the estimated $3 million for the museum , actually lost it $1 million earlier this year . |
| 28 | Documents published by BNFL state that the plant will earn £950 million for the UK and £1,800 million for BNFL in its first 10 years , but contain no comparison of the cost of reprocessing with that of storage of nuclear waste , or any assessment of the revenue BNFL could earn from storage of its customers ' waste . |
| 29 | In 1989 Conisborough Castle in South Yorkshire was given ECU 0.151 million for the construction of a heritage and visitor centre with audio-visual facilities . |
| 30 | The Senate voted narrowly to continue funding the controversial B-2 " Stealth " bomber project , 15 of which were under construction , allocating $4,600 million for the construction of two bombers during 1991 and for further research into the radar-evading aircraft . |