Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] a million " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ketchup bottle cascaded out into a million glass fragments which showered down in slow motion ; floating and turning lazily like snowflakes , the light shivering in them like jewels . |
| 2 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
| 3 | Washington ordered the initial 1,800 heavily armed troops to sweep into the capital to save up to a million Somalis starving to death . |
| 4 | I 'm bloody glad I 'm out of there , I would n't go back in a million years , of course he 's sitting there with this chinese cup in his hand , |
| 5 | The communist regime that finally fell from power last week was , in many respects , a repetition of Amanullah on a grander , and far bloodier , scale : the war provoked by the 1978 ‘ revolution ’ , and the reaction to it have left up to a million dead , a third of the 16-million population displaced . |
| 6 | Phillips Auctioneers in Oxford is working with other branches throughout Britain to raise up to a million pounds for local charities in the ITV Telethon '92 . |
| 7 | The sea glared on with a million eyes , a million witnesses to our getaway . |
| 8 | The area was littered with the carcases of livestock in scenes reminiscent of the 1984–85 famine that left up to a million dead and prompted Bob Geldof 's Band Aid campaign . |
| 9 | IXI believes other hardware vendors could be drawn into the initiative as many spend up to a million dollars maintaining their separate Motif developments . |