Example sentences of "quarters of a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Britain 's three quarters of a million miners in the nineteen thirties and forties , dust was a massive problem . |
| 2 | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) , with a more than three quarters of a million members , has grown by over 40 per cent since the end of last year . |
| 3 | What we 're actually lo doing here is those of longer members who remember we used to have a thing called the area health authority which was proposed in a three tier structure by a corporation called the McKenzie corporation at great expense charity governed by three quarters of a million pounds to invent structure of the National Health Service nineteen seventy two some years later they came back and said , well give us another million pounds and we 'll go back and look at it again , and say actually we were wrong , and they abolished the areas , and produced districts ! |
| 4 | Those are the Saw Doctors interesting this about the Saw Doctors is one of them won the lottery in Ireland I do n't they have a lottery we 're go when are we going to get a national lottery that 's what I want to know when are we going to get it a national next year we 're going to get a national lottery that 's right and one of the Saw Doctors won the national lottery and he won three quarters of a million pounds er and they have n't made much money the Saw Doctors but he won three quarters of a million pounds so that have n't worked for quite some time but they are back on the scene as I speak and er they really if if they er come to York they 're certainly worth seeing . |
| 5 | Those are the Saw Doctors interesting this about the Saw Doctors is one of them won the lottery in Ireland I do n't they have a lottery we 're go when are we going to get a national lottery that 's what I want to know when are we going to get it a national next year we 're going to get a national lottery that 's right and one of the Saw Doctors won the national lottery and he won three quarters of a million pounds er and they have n't made much money the Saw Doctors but he won three quarters of a million pounds so that have n't worked for quite some time but they are back on the scene as I speak and er they really if if they er come to York they 're certainly worth seeing . |
| 6 | A local farmer is seeking nearly three quarters of a million pounds in compensation . |
| 7 | Repairs will cost three quarters of a million pounds . |
| 8 | Forced Sales of players like Paul Simpson and Lee Nogan for three quarters of a million pounds simply to keep the club alive have become a neccessity . |
| 9 | News just in Swindon Town striker Duncan Shearer has signed for Blackburn Rovers for three quarters of a million pounds . |
| 10 | But now farmer Jeremy Chamberlayne has spent three quarters of a million pounds turning the cattle yards into offices : |
| 11 | For many gardeners , the Spring Show is an opportunity to buy the bedding plants that bring much needed early summer colour to the borders.For the nurserymen , it 's a great start to the season.Over the three days they expect to sell plants worth three quarters of a million pounds . |
| 12 | They 'll cost around three quarters of a million pounds . |
| 13 | He 's alleged to have smuggled three quarters of a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain , concealed in a lorry load of pot plants . |
| 14 | A florist has been convicted of smuggling three quarters of a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain . |
| 15 | Three quarters of a million pounds |
| 16 | If it 's a million , if it 's a million and a half dollars it 's er three quarters of a million pounds |
| 17 | Let's hope that work which is going to cost around three quarters of a million pounds will be finished by the spring of next year . |
| 18 | Our Visitor Survey for Edinburgh ( undertaken in 1987/1988 ) showed that Edinburgh received an estimated 312,000 individual VISITORS , making three quarters of a million VISITS . |
| 19 | London has seen the disappearance of more than three quarters of a million manufacturing jobs in 20 years : an aggregate figure masking stagnation and decline in an inner south-east zone , and growth in the west , in part related to Heathrow Airport , as a ‘ high-tech ’ crescent ( Hall et al . , |
| 20 | Er we , this budget actually includes about three quarters of a million increase in d in expenditure on day care . |
| 21 | Three quarters of a million children have been forced to seek refuge in neighbouring countries , others are disabled for life . |
| 22 | More than five hundred acts had already enclosed three quarters of a million acres of ‘ waste ’ between 1760 and 1801 . |
| 23 | I just wanted to s erm congratulate er whoever it was and put together the curriculum er programme which secured the three quarters of a million pound for all those which will I , I think I can understand extremely competitive and I would like to erm give credit to there because that will be enormously for the business which will give proper jobs er which is er very useful to the environment and , and , and really just to record erm that , that particular er success . |
| 24 | Three quarters of a million people — one quarter of the entire population of Colonel Gadaffi 's Jamahiriyah — demonstrated in Tripoli on January 18 and there have been mass demonstrations in support of Iraq in Tunis ever since late August last year . |
| 25 | That 's three quarters of a million years old . |
| 26 | Last year out of the three terminal out , three quarters of a million passengers . |
| 27 | He started by claiming that a statutory minimum wage would result in three quarters of a million jobs losses . |
| 28 | Fine , so that 's three quarters of a million quid |