Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adj] million [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His name Charles , his job director of the city bank Merrel-Lynch , his task to decide which airline staff here can fly , his annual budget for this is six million pounds . |
| 2 | This is several million years older than the previously oldest known fossil ape from Meswa Bridge in the Koru area , and if this specimen is indeed a fossil hominoid it puts the date for hominoid origins at least to 25Myr . |
| 3 | My Department 's central estimate of reserves remaining in existing discoveries at 31 December 1985 was 1,230 million tonnes . |
| 4 | Estimated potato production i the United Kingdom in 1991 was 6.3 million tonnes . |
| 5 | The equivalent figures for May 1987 are 4.9 million claimants , and 8.2 million people dependent on supplementary benefit ( Hansard , 25 November 1987 , col. 245 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's four million families facing a dismal Christmas , but the misery does n't end there . |
| 7 | That 's six million pounds he 's getting for a year ! ’ |
| 8 | Well that 's two million pounds interestingly erm there are costs er er er we had some of our U S interest rates and we er that actually was an outgoing erm there , there are lots of other pluses and minuses and we , you can kid yourself the rate being eight point nine accrued and five and a half adjusted er if you want to think you know if you th think the treasury job was a good one , but erm the truth lies somewhere in between I suspect . |
| 9 | Christa Luft , Minister of the Economy , revealed at a round table meeting on Jan. 3 that the country 's budget deficit in 1989 was 5,000-6,000 million Marks , of which agricultural losses due to adverse weather conditions totalled 1,300 million Marks . |
| 10 | The total area lost between 1981 and 1990 was 154 million hectares , with 1,750 million hectares of tropical forest remaining . |