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Example sentences of "[adj] million pounds " in BNC.

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1	It 'll cost around 30 million pounds to convert Colditz into two luxury hotels .
2	That policy has been endorsed by majorities of more than 2 million pounds — — members on each occasion .
3	That linkage technology was one of the factors behind Philips 's investment of thirty-six million pounds in the company last year .
4	Police have arrested five people and seized forged social security benefit books with a face value of thirty-six million pounds .
5	British Aerospace WO N'T have to repay almost forty-five million pounds which the Government paid it as an inducement to buy the Rover car company .
6	It was run by a couple of brothers who had started with one large pub in North London and had built the company , by dint of aggressive take-over tactics and shrewd property dealing , to a sizeable enterprise with a turnover of nearly forty million pounds .
7	As the General Secretary 's Report indicates , last year members obtained about forty million pounds in compensation , almost all of it through our regional solicitors .
8	But by nineteen ninety one , that had turned in to a deficit of a hundred million and one prediction suggests the deficit would have widened dramatically to six hundred and forty million pounds by the end of the decade .
9	A vast new Royal infirmary costing one hundred and forty million pounds is to be built on the Southern outskirts of the capital , to open in eight years time .
10	And I take this opportunity to say that , erm , I had , I moved this at budget revue , and my intention was to move erm , pretty much the wording that Mr moved at property , but I was unable to obtain that wording by the time of the meeting , so I put this forward , erm , knowing that it obviously was different words , but but with that same sense , that we do have to address some very real issues about County Farms and not to pussyfoot about it I think that er , any comparison between the County Farms and a commercial enterprise is a coincidence of terms , but I ca n't see how we can have forty million pounds worth of estate , as it 's valued on the free market , to be making two hundred and ninety-one thousand pounds a year out of it , and think that that is commercial .
11	And what leads me to that conclusion is the distortion that Mr brought in , in suggesting that the estate is worth forty million pounds .
12	That itself is some forty million pounds below the association of Welsh counties assessment of what is actually needed to meet the needs of the community and it is in any event not available for general spending .
13	The child care initiative launched by my predecessor involving expenditure of over forty million pounds over the period is giving training and enterprise councils the opportunity to come forward with some very imaginative and innovative schemes .
14	Woodhill took its first inmates last summer.It cost forty million pounds and was intended to be part of a new wave of prisons with just one inmate per cell and in which the prisoner could take more reponsibility for his own welfare .
15	It will cost a hundred and forty million pounds and be built on a green-field site .
16	Overproduction coupled with falling sales have saddled Dupont Nylon with expected losses of forty million pounds worldwide this year .
17	The weapons and electronics divisions , worth forty million pounds , have been bought out by their own managements .
18	A gate of 25,837 was returned , representing a gross half million pounds loss .
19	Erm the cost of sales is two and a half million pounds which gives us a gross profit of almost two and a half million pounds .
20	Erm the cost of sales is two and a half million pounds which gives us a gross profit of almost two and a half million pounds .
21	You 'll notice on the overhead cost the big cost is the advertising which is two and a half million pounds and that unfortunately takes us into a a net loss at the end of the year of one point almost two million pounds .
22	He died intestate 27 May 1930 in Ryelands , Leicester , leaving a fortune of ten and a half million pounds , the largest intestate legacy in British history to that point .
23	There 's a cool half million pounds in the kitty just waiting to be snapped up … a NEW 50,000 Generation Name Game , the latest thing in family fun … the chance to scoop a fortune on Vernons Pools and , of course , diamonds , diamonds , diamonds .
24	In nineteen ninety one , arrears totalling one and a half million pounds was due to those twelve thousand eight hundred and twelve workers .
25	Er , we also announced at the same time as the Alton , er , Towers acquisition that Longman had acquired Rank Training for eleven and a half million pounds .
26	I 'd just like to make two or three points first of all the exchange factor which Frank touched upon when , when talking about profits you probably all totally familiar but I have forgotten quite how much the dollar has strengthened recently beginning of the year it was nearly two dollars and the result of that is that for the erm first half as a whole the impact of er exchange translation was adverse for our profits compared with last year to the tune of about one and a half million pounds .
27	Two and a half million pounds may sound a lot to run a profession of just over 7,000 practising barristers — but we are only able to hold that figure by reason of the hard work from our small but totally dedicated Secretariat , and by the voluntary work of many members of the profession .
28	In total , we estimate that next year , police and fire pensions will cost , gross , nearly seven and a half million pounds .
29	structural benefits that we do have this backlog twenty six and a half million pounds of work .
30	Last year branch income was on target at seven point eight million pounds , a massive increase on the plateau of five to five and half million pounds we were on before Skip Lunch .