Example sentences of "million and the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All are extremely worthwhile projects , including the upgrading of the west coast main line at a cost of £750 million and the electrification of the midlands main line at a cost of £315 million . |
| 2 | Using equation ( 2 ) , the cost of debt finance can be calculated as follows : The current market value of the firm 's equity finance is £1 million and the firm is expected to pay a perpetual dividend of £120,000 each year ( that is , g=0 ) . |
| 3 | Turnover has surged from £6 million to £10 million and the firm is working 24 hours a day , six days a week throughout the year to meet demand . |
| 4 | The total contract cost of the church conversion and the adjacent new building was of the order of £1.25 million and the work extended over twenty-one months . |
| 5 | The Carré d'Art has cost FFr383 million ( $70 million ) against initial estimates of FFr360 million , of which the town has provided FFr278 million , the Region Languedoc-Roussillon FFr32 million , the Ministère de la Culture and Secretariat d'Etat aux Grands Travaux , FFr5 million , the Direction des Musées de France FFr46.77 million and the Direction des Livres et de la Lecture , FFr21.22 million . |
| 6 | It is worth £8 million and the gallery has had to purchase it through three annual instalments negotiated with the previous owners . |
| 7 | The group 's stable of established drugs increased sales by 13 per cent to £2.05 billion , with the asthma drug , Becotite , contributing £165 million and the anti-biotic , Zinnat , turning in £160 million . |
| 8 | As to the cost of the measures , the two-year cost of the skill check initiative will be some £25 million and the cost of the pilot scheme of vouchers to help unemployed people to make use of open learning facilities will be £3 million . |
| 9 | The museum part has only cost FFr150 million and the rest was for the library ’ . |
| 10 | The marginal propensity to import is also 0.2 , so that for every £10 million rise in income , spending on imports rises by £2 million and the consumption of home-produced goods and services rises by £6 million . |
| 11 | Pre-tax profits soared from £21.4 million to almost £32 million and the company joined Iceland Frozen Foods yesterday in announcing turnover that topped £1 billion for the first time , jumping from £920 million to £1.05 billion . |
| 12 | But a decade later , numbers had fallen to three million and the YHA was in crisis . |
| 13 | We are operating within a of because of the government this Council is erm nett cuts of all its services of four point two million reduction of four point er two million and the policy system . |
| 14 | Erm the Conservative thirty three million and the Policy Committee is that Labour was actually sort of lowest . |
| 15 | In cast terms , the eight per cent that had to be found had the monetary value of £2 million and the agreement was that the top 15 executives had to fund half of it — the reasoning being that it is the senior people who will motivate the company and when they have had to put that amount in themselves , it concentrates the mind . |
| 16 | The Ministry of Defence will contribute up to £40 million of this , the DES £50 million and the Department of Industry the remaining £110 million . |
| 17 | During the final three months , group capital and reserves rose by £16 million to £1,480 million and the group 's solvency margin at the end of the year was up two points to 42 per cent . |