Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a million [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After only 4000 reactor years worldwide , Chernobyl approached the worst conceivable nuclear reactor accident , which was previously estimated to be of a probability somewhere near 1 in 10,000 or even I in a million per reactor year . |
| 2 | In all there are thought to be some three-quarters of a million of them surviving . |
| 3 | The population of Greater London alone fell by almost three-quarters of a million between 1971 and 1981 , a drop of almost 1 in 10 ( OPCS , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | Pompeii is the most popular archaeological site in Europe , currently attracting two and a half million people a year , and the present exhibition has already drawn an audience of nearly three-quarters of a million in the USA and Sweden . |
| 5 | Evidence based upon population censuses and analysed by Holmans ( 1981 ) indicates that the number of married couples in shared accommodation fell from three-quarters of a million in 1951 to slightly under a quarter of a million in 1971 . |
| 6 | As the efficiency of the detector was very low ( it was small and , they estimated , only recorded less than one in a million of any neutrons emitted by the cell ) , they counted neutrons at the cell for 50 hours . |
| 7 | Either way , if it 's true , then we will lose close on a million on the overall deal . |