Example sentences of "a million [conj] [art] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brazil has been boosted both by David Byrne , whose new Latin big band made such an impression here last week , and the dance hit , Lambada , by Kaoma , which sold over a million and a half copies in France and became the best-selling European single of the year . |
| 2 | More than a million and a half children — one in eight — live in these one-parent families . |
| 3 | Over a million and a half barrels of herring a year had been exported to Russia prior to the embargo . |
| 4 | Cauterets claims to have a more plentiful supply of sulphurous waters than any other spa on earth , to the tune of a million and a half health-giving litres a day , and this is a claim you will not wish to dispute once you have pushed open the swing doors to the neo-Roman ‘ Baths of Caesar ’ and breathed in the warm and all too recognizably sulphur-laden air . |
| 5 | But the negative motive is not the whole of it ; Athens was anxious about her own supplies of grain in the mid-fifth century , and benefited in 445/4 from a massive gift of corn — 30,000 medimnoi , or a million and a half daily rations — from an Egyptian prince ‘ Psammetichos ’ ( Philochorus F 119 = Fornara 86 ) . |
| 6 | Food imported for a million and a half people . |
| 7 | Group testing received its first big boost when the US entered World War 1 in 1917 to provide for the rapid classification of a million and a half recruits who needed to be assigned to suitable roles in the military machine . |
| 8 | A retired Ministry of Defence official has gone on trial accused of accepting a million and a half pounds in bribes to award arms contracts abroad . |
| 9 | But while the battle goes on , the aid does not get through , and in Central Bosnia , a million and a half people depend upon it . |
| 10 | If it 's a million , if it 's a million and a half dollars it 's er three quarters of a million pounds |
| 11 | erm it employs a million and a half people in full time jobs , or full time equivalents . |
| 12 | More than a million and a half Palestinians live in the occupied territories , their treatment prompted repeated accusations by western governments as well as those in the Middle East , that Israel 's crackdown has been too harsh , at times undisciplined ; one image of violence by Israeli forces aroused world-wide condemnation . |