Example sentences of "a [det] million pounds [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a lowly , poorly paid teacher and a member of Mensa , I wonder if RUNNING could put me in touch with sponsors and promoters who might make me a few million pounds over the next couple of years , even though I 'm not Canadian . |
| 2 | Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later . |
| 3 | By investing a few million pounds into the anti-poaching forces of Kenya and Tanzania , as is happening at the moment , we will probably reduce and even stop the poaching problem for the time being but the long-term survival of the elephant in eastern Africa is going to depend ultimately on those countries ' abilities to incorporate wildlife and wild area protection into an overall land use policy . |
| 4 | And it must be prepared to lose a few million pounds in the process . |
| 5 | ‘ The national media attention given to Pwllheli , in the run-up to the final decision , must be worth a few million pounds in advertising terms alone . ’ |
| 6 | The government is giving back nine and a half million pounds to Oxford City Council , after admitting a mistake in the calculations for the housing budget . |
| 7 | structural benefits that we do have this backlog twenty six and a half million pounds of work . |
| 8 | So in net terms we can have maximum , we wo n't go to this in the current till next year , erm two and a half million pounds of growth . |
| 9 | The High Court has ruled that the historian from Oxfordshire will still have to pay Lord Aldington one and a half million pounds for allegations he made about his war record . |
| 10 | I see no reason whatsoever for a council that will still have two and a half million pounds in balances after the labour group proposals , why on earth we need to build another hundred thousand pounds into the budget , paid for by er council tax payers to provide for unforeseen expenditure . |
| 11 | A writer who was ordered to pay two and a half million pounds in libel damages and costs , has uncovered new material which he claims casts doubt over the judgement . |
| 12 | They hit coshed the driver and made off with two and a half million pounds in used five pound notes . |
| 13 | Leatherslade Farm was the hideout used by the Great Train Robbers after they stole two and a half million pounds from the Glasgow to Euston mail train in 1963 . |