Example sentences of "[noun] million a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It spends at least £55 million a year on the upkeep and maintenance of its buildings ( mainly funded by its congregations ) compared with about £4 million which comes through state aid . |
| 2 | World Bank officials said that the Bank expected to be making loan commitments of US$4,500 million to $5,000 million a year by the middle of 1994 to former Soviet republics . |
| 3 | FoE made a number of recommendations on taxes , incentives and greater spending on research ( including the government 's Energy Efficiency Office , which , remarkably , given the nature of the times , saw its budget restricted to £15 million a year for two years in succession — a loss in real terms ) . |
| 4 | However , it is believed to be in the region of £15 million a year for the world-wide rights , plus a percentage of profits over and above that figure . |
| 5 | According to the Building Research Establishment , the government 's Property Services Agency spends about £20 million a year on lighting its buildings . |
| 6 | We have helped to establish the Football Trust , which now devotes £20 million a year to improving the safety of grounds . |
| 7 | I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's . |
| 8 | And so the wish-lists of Arran , Cumbrae , Cowal , the rest of Argyll and west Moray — where the Highland MEP , Winnie Ewing , has a home — will have to wait until June , when the heavily lobbied council of ministers finally approve — or not — what could be more than £20 million a year for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 9 | Highlands and Islands Enterprise estimated yesterday it could mean £20 million a year until 1999 . |
| 10 | The ministry is spending about £1 million a year on lasers — and some of this money has gone on buying equipment from Spectra-Physics for Japanese companies to try out . |
| 11 | The business sponsorship incentive scheme has been a great success and I am giving further encouragement to sponsorship of the arts by increasing its budget by £1 million a year to £4.5 million . |
| 12 | Leeds Diocese has to find more than £1 million a year towards the cost of Catholic schools . |
| 13 | SCOTTISH Ambulance Service fleet manager Ed Hodson believes he is on the way to knocking £1 million a year off fuel bills by gradually switching totally to diesel . |
| 14 | And , to top the argument , market research indicated greater reader-loyalty amongst NoS 's target audience for a northern-based paper — indicating an extra £1 million a year in sales and advertising revenue . |
| 15 | In return England took its favourite wine , some oranges , some figs and a bullion surplus of around £1 million a year in the 1750s . |
| 16 | Thresher has a commitment to training and invests over £1 million a year in the direct cost of training its staff and managers . |
| 17 | Since its acquisition two years ago of Consumers Gas of Canada , a company with nearly ten years experience in NGV development , British Gas has been in the forefront of NGV research — in which it invests over £1 million a year in the UK . |
| 18 | Their election manifesto calls for increased spending on club development , up to £250,000 immediately , and £1 million a year within five years . |
| 19 | Why ca n't some of these blokes be earning £1 million a year like snooker players ? |
| 20 | They can expect to make around £1 million a tie from the three guaranteed ‘ league ’ matches once they reach the last eight . |
| 21 | Employers already spend over £20,000 million a year on training . |
| 22 | Yesterday , Norman Lamont presented the bill for that cleverness , with a demand for more than £10,000 million a year in extra taxation from 1995/6 onwards . |
| 23 | Last year it advanced £5 million a day to customers . |
| 24 | Diller , 50 , who earned £5 million a year as Fox chairman , was forced to resign earlier this year after profits slumped . |
| 25 | He needs to persuade foreigners that it is safe for them to lend the best part of £1000 million a week to the Treasury ; and he needs to persuade Britons that it is safe for them to start spending their money again . |
| 26 | the Regional Council earns in excess of £3 million a year from its Trade Effluent Control Scheme |
| 27 | BRITISH Telecom is putting £3 million a week in Scotland every week , its chairman , Iain Vallance , told the London dinner of Scottish Financial Enterprise last night . |
| 28 | Sony will pay Streisand about £1.2 million a year for an estimated 10 years to develop projects through her film company . |
| 29 | But advocates of renewable energy point out that the new budget still leaves the field far behind where it stood more than a decade ago , when President Jimmy Carter spent as much as $800 million a year on renewable research . |
| 30 | THE man from the Pru is shelling out more than £10 million a DAY on insurance settlements and maturing savings plans . |