Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a million [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
| 2 | big sand stone rocks , they find things that fish today er had , had got other pediments that million years back , same thing , but not , not , not the same as they are today , you know , well they must of got hold of it to be different from a million years ago |
| 3 | They landed the King Air at Sir William Robert 's strip there and found a couple of former Irish Air Corps two-seaters and one former Belgian Air Force Mk XIV all in a million bits . |
| 4 | Other world-wide eustatic causes of sea level change include sedimentary infilling of ocean basins which could give a sea level rise of 4 mm/100 years equivalent to 40 m in a million years ( Higgins , 1965 ) ; orogenic eustasy whereby orogenic uplift creates ocean basins of different size ; geoidal eustasy whereby the ocean surface reflects the variations in the geoid surface due to the earth 's irregular distribution of mass which can give a difference between lows and highs of as much as 180 m . |
| 5 | That is to say , W is from ten thousand to a million times higher than G and so the critical crack length is longer in direct proportion . |
| 6 | Sources will be gas at temperatures of ten thousand to a million degrees ; they should include streamers of gas in double star systems , remains of old supernovae , and hot white dwarf stars . |
| 7 | But what happens in these clouds is that certain parts of them , certain areas of the cloud start to collapse , and as they collapse the temperature rises and the collapse increases , and as the temperature rises through a thousand to a million degrees we find that these are the regions where stars form , and it is really the major discovery , as far as astronomy is concerned , of the radio research that we now know a lot more about the early stages of star formation . |
| 8 | The SDP were likely to be a far greater danger to us , as disgruntled ex-Conservative voters who would never have voted Labour in a million years turned to a cosy middle party . |
| 9 | During the ten months the siege was to last , Richard 's road gangs were said to have shovelled nearly three-quarters of a million tons of metal on to the road . |
| 10 | Among the three-quarters of a million evacuees was one , whom I remember only as Ron , and who was drafted to my uncle 's home . |
| 11 | It had been previously owned by Maurice Macmillan MP , son of the late Conservative Prime Minister Lord Stockton , and the Duchy paid over three-quarters of a million pounds for the property . |
| 12 | This house is worth at least three-quarters of a million pounds . |
| 13 | Russian losses were massive — General Falkenhayn estimated human loss at about ‘ three-quarters of a million men in prisoners alone ’ — and artillery and weaponry of all kinds had been taken in great quantity . |
| 14 | He would fly through the warp to any one of a million worlds . |
| 15 | What with all those houses , plus the school , he must have been worth close to a million pounds , give or take the odd thousand . |
| 16 | From nothing he amassed a fortune estimated at close to a million pounds by a combination of sustained hard work and practical technical ability . |
| 17 | These have maximum ranges of 2000 km and 4100 km respectively , and they each carry a single warhead with a yield of one megaton ( equivalent to a million tonnes of TNT ) . |
| 18 | There is evidence that , in living species too , ‘ fossil genes ’ occasionally come into their own again , and are re-used after lying dormant for a million years or so . |
| 19 | A lecturer at a further education college has won a grant worth more than a third of a million pounds to study volcanos . |
| 20 | If she loses , she could be forced to repay almost a third of a million pounds she 's already received . |
| 21 | It spent a third of a million pounds on this flare siphoning off dangerous methane gas — and has these Nigerian Lanner Falcons on constant guard against flocks of seagulls which can be a danger to planes from nearby RAF bases . |
| 22 | A month after the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board went into voluntary liquidation , creditors owed nearly a third of a million pounds , met at a hotel in Thame to find out why . |
| 23 | A councillor who 's facing a legal bill of a third of a million pounds after a failed libel case has lodged an appeal against having to pay . |
| 24 | A third of a million Frenchmen died in the first five months … |
| 25 | From historical records it can be deduced that there have been more than two hundred notable tsunami in the last two thousand years ; this would allow us more than 100 000 in a million years . |