Example sentences of "millions of [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with this care , however , so great are the quantities of drift-net in use that the loss of some of the millions of kilometres of netting deployed each year is inevitable . |
| 2 | Indeed it can not have done if he can lay his hands on enough fossils just in a single surface exposure erm to be able to erm measure the properties of populations , it 's clear there must have been millions of specimens of these beasts present at any one time in the lake . |
| 3 | As for chairmen , they do not like having to print millions of copies of their annual reports or having to answer tedious questions at their AGMs from Disgusted of Worthing . |
| 4 | The fact is , there are millions of copies of Windows 3. x out there at the moment , and one survey has it that 33% of business PC users are currently computing under Windows . |
| 5 | SNOW , high winds and bitter disagreement yesterday further hampered attempts to tame Mount Etna , which is threatening to overrun the Sicilian town of Zafferana with millions of tons of volcanic lava . |
| 6 | Both countries poured out millions of tons of coal to make good the orders of the international coal trade . |
| 7 | For several years , two quarrying companies based in Somerset — Foster Yeoman and ARC — have used their own wagons and locomotives — driven and maintained by BR staff — to haul millions of tons of stone across Britain . |
| 8 | In the wet , the broad ridge high up to the left is preferable , leading along to the conspicuous profile of Alport Castles — a huge landslip where millions of tons of shales and grits slid forward to create a spectacular feature above the hamlet of Alport . |
| 9 | The fishermen come back with their holds empty ; the islands have neither birds nor guano ; it is said that the strength of the smell of the gases from the millions of tons of decaying fish is such that it can blacken the hull of a passing ship — a phenomenon known as the Callao Painter . |
| 10 | A company called Global Industrial Complex Limited — which has representatives in New York and Dhaka — has proposed shipping millions of tons of toxic waste from Europe and the US to Bangladesh . |
| 11 | His coal pits , famed even outside Britain as the ‘ Ocean Collieries ’ , produced millions of tons of high quality coal . |
| 12 | Erm Gascoigne Woods this er this great big erm dump of of coal waste that 's gon na be er left in the Selby area a mile long consisting of millions of tons of of spoil from the tip . |
| 13 | Water droplets trap poisonous gases and millions of tons of ash laden with cadmium , lead , mercury and arsenic linger . |
| 14 | A meeting of oceanographers in Massachusetts has said that large-scale testing is needed to establish the ocean 's potential as a dumping ground for millions of tons of sewage sludge and toxic waste . |
| 15 | According to Mikhail Vinogradov at the Moscow-based Oceanology Institute : " The Dnieper , Dnestr and Danube bring in millions of tons of industrial wastes and pesticides every year , while passing ships drop some 10 million tonnes of oil annually . " |
| 16 | Scientists calculate that millions of tons of valuable topsoil have been lost , putting great strain on the region 's agricultural development . |
| 17 | The market for recycling carpets is potentially huge : millions of tons of carpets are dumped in Europe and North America every year . |
| 18 | A £100 MILLION proposal to recycle millions of tons of sewage sludge into environmentally friendly products for use in agriculture , forestry and land reclamation by the end of the century will be unveiled today . |
| 19 | Millions of pounds of investment meant nothing to Bedford-St Pancras commuters when their long-awaited new electric trains were laid up in the sidings while BR and the rail unions hammered each other over one-man operation . |
| 20 | Major concerns included the millions of pounds of benefits lost because of difficulties claiming pensions earned early on . |
| 21 | Most of the facts about how an investment group could be allowed to draw in tens of millions of pounds of people 's savings for years after regulators had first spotted that things were amiss at Barlow Clowes were revealed in a report by Sir Godfray Le Quesne commissioned last year by the then Trade Secretary , Lord Young . |
| 22 | This letter , based on expediency and written in a hurry , without any of the proper backing of parliamentary statute , has continued to dictate the terms whereby millions of pounds of public money are spent on land drainage , right up until the mid-1980s . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a tragedy that all those millions of pounds of investment are not going to create many jobs . |
| 24 | But now Silverstone , which underwent millions of pounds of improvements four years ago , installing new pits , new bridges and two new corners , faces its biggest crisis . |
| 25 | So much so , that the Commission continues its backing of the HDMAC analogue transmission standard for HDTV , regardless of its being overtaken by more advanced digital technology and despite broadcasters and telecommunications trade associations lobbying against it , and a plethora of industry pundits accusing the EC of wasting millions of pounds of taxpayers ' money . |
| 26 | Better that soldiers or policemen or civilians be murdered and maimed in that corner of the United Kingdom and millions of pounds of property be destroyed than that votes be lost in mainland constituencies . |
| 27 | They knew they would blow the lid on the hundreds of millions of pounds of defence equipment which they had allowed to go to Iraq . |
| 28 | Industry is generous to Imperial — it endows chairs , sponsors students and gives the college millions of pounds of research contracts every year — but , despite that , Ash is still very critical of it . |
| 29 | The democratic forms of the Council and committees and the rigid hierarchical structure of the service have some great strengths but in many ways are not geared to the modern task of managing thousands of people and hundreds of millions of pounds of assets . |
| 30 | However , as a matter of principle it annoys Hon. Members to think that Welsh Members should adopt such an attitude , because millions of pounds of English taxpayers ' money are directed towards Wales . |