Example sentences of "[vb pp] [n mass] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , my hon. Friend the Member for Richmond and Barnes ( Mr. Hanley ) has added £2.6 million to this year 's budget for occupational therapy , and about £500,000 has been made available to the Newry and Craigavon area . |
| 2 | The Commission 's original proposal on maternity leave would have added £0.5 billion to the costs or either employers or taxpayers in this country . |
| 3 | During the next three years the industry has committed £1 billion to cleaning up its discharges and recycling wastes which would otherwise be dumped . |
| 4 | Two years later Pitt claimed to have added £1 million to the annual revenue from customs duties , £1 million from new taxes , notably on windows , and £2 million from additional excise rising from increased domestic consumption of excised goods . |
| 5 | In the UK the Department of Energy has committed £11 million to geothermal energy for three years of work and by 1986 Britain will have spent £21 million on ‘ hot rocks ’ research . |
| 6 | BA is reported to have offered £10 million to £15 million in compensation for the damage its campaign caused to Richard Branson 's Virgin group . |
| 7 | The opposition also denied US news reports that Washington had contributed $10 million to his election campaign . |
| 8 | The government has allocated £4.9 million to governor training . |
| 9 | Since it started in 1979 , Midland Bank Venture Capital has provided £35 million to 119 companies . |
| 10 | The housing investment programme has allocated £99 million to the northern region this year , with an additional £20.5 million coming through estate action resources . |
| 11 | ICI , although running at a loss of £384 million , still distributed £393 million to its shareholders , over half its R&D budget . |
| 12 | Mrs Chamorro , who heads the recently formed 14-party National Opposition Union ( UNO ) , held talks with the US Vice-President , Mr Dan Quayle , in Washington yesterday after meeting President Bush and other Administration officials , who have already pledged $9 million to the election process . |
| 13 | As a stepping stone towards a regional common market , the Presidents of El Salvador , Guatemala and Honduras , meeting on May 12 in Nueva Ocotepeque , Honduras , had agreed to establish a free-trade zone creating a potential market of 20,000,000 consumers and to boost annual trade between the three from the currently estimated US$600 million to US$4,500 million . |
| 14 | Does not that contrast with the Conservative policy of reducing the betting levy by 2.5 per cent. , which has given £100 million to sport and increased the Sports Council grant to £50 million — |
| 15 | It requires all people to be involved in a ceasefire and a total cessation of hostilities if the aid that we are willing to send — we have sent £8 million to Somalia since early last year — is to get to the people who desperately need it . |
| 16 | Since 1979 the Government have given £17 billion to the British coal industry by way of grant and write-offs . |