Example sentences of "[adj] million [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the war the volume of grain exported seldom exceeded 30 million tons a year . |
| 2 | This is a relatively prosperous area , attracting around 30 million tourists a year , explains BP 's Pomfret . |
| 3 | In Europe there are 2 million abortions a year . |
| 4 | Ship-building was a great consumer of steel ; by 1914 Great Britain alone had as much steam tonnage as had the whole of Europe in 1880 and was launching another 2 million tons a year . |
| 5 | We are talking not about an industry in decline — no matter what some right hon. and hon. Members may think — but about one in which oil and gas production will rise from more than 2 million barrels a day now to a new peak of almost 3 million barrels a day by the end of the century . |
| 6 | The half million popunds a year keeps it flying five days a week over an area from the outlying villages of Herefordshire to Northamptonshire and the city streets of the West Midlands . |
| 7 | Since the big companies moved in the annual haul from these waters has increased from three and a half thousand to two and a half million tons a year . |
| 8 | Bernard Lavery is the doyen of the home-grown British giant vegetable world , and he organised yesterday 's event at Alton Towers , the Midlands pleasure park which attracts two and a half million visitors a year . |
| 9 | I think that it is going to have a good effect on improving trading for the better parks and attractions in this country and as you know I think , Alton Towers is the leading er , park of its kind in this country , Chessington which we also own is the second er , leading park , one and a half million visitors a year , Alton Towers approximately two million visitors a year in this country . |
| 10 | It 's budget — around one and a half million pounds a year . |
| 11 | So by sharing a little of what we have , we can remover the threat of these terrible diseases which , currently , kill three and a half million children a year . |
| 12 | Designed to carry 11 turbines , each with a capacity of 450 kilowatts , the farm will produce electricity costing around 0.63 Danish krone ( 5.8 pence ) per kilowatt hour , generating 12 million kilowatt-hours a year . |
| 13 | Maxell , a subsidiary of Hitachi , plans to start production before the end of 1983 , and aims for an output of 12 million cassettes a year with over 200 jobs created for local workers . |
| 14 | It could , without an additional runway , cope with up to 12 million passengers a year if new terminal buildings were provided . |
| 15 | Its author , Roger Sedjo , argues that new temperate forests are absorbing at least 700 million tonnes a year , compared to the 1,000 million tonnes released annually as a result of tropical forest loss . |
| 16 | ‘ This represents our first global sponsorship of a sporting event , ’ said David Green , vice president of marketing for McDonald 's , the fast food chain who boast 22 million customers a day . |
| 17 | Erm Heathrow has a massive impact on local roads already , thirty six million passengers a year arrive by road and of course there 's also the airport staff and freight implications . |
| 18 | Initially , the terminal will be able to handle up to six million passengers a year , boosting the airport 's overall annual capacity to 17.5 million . |
| 19 | A phase two Terminal 2 development planned for 1997/98 will increase that total capacity by another six million passengers a year . |
| 20 | The service is expensive ; estimates are that the Medecins Sans Frontieres are spending over six million dollars a year to support 20–30 districts ( ’ External Support ’ , 1991 ) . |
| 21 | On Oct. 26 , however , the Collegium of the USSR Procurator 's Office was told that the " black economy " was still growing and was worth 40,000-50,000 million roubles a year . |
| 22 | On Jan. 15 as part of a three-stage plan of " transition to an efficient market economy " subsidies worth 1,200 million Marks a year were cut on children 's clothes , shoes and some other items . |
| 23 | By 1980 , Britain would be producing 100 million tonnes a year , with 500,000 barrels a day from the Forties field and 370,000 from the Brent field , putting the United Kingdom on a par with Kuwait , Nigeria , or Iraq as a major oil producer . |
| 24 | The confessional is a matter of secrecy , but what is not secret is that , when they were really working at it , the previous Labour Government ensured that far more than 7 million days a year were lost through strikes . |
| 25 | As a result over-capacity was running at some 10 million tonnes a year and coal stocks ( including the 10 million tonne national coal reserve to safeguard West German energy supply ) were reaching levels of well over 30 million tonnes . |
| 26 | Cuts of 10 million tonnes a year are needed to freeze emissions at 1990 levels . |
| 27 | If Disneyland , which is only 150 acres in size , can attract 10 million visitors a year , the opportunity must exist for us to attract our own type of tourist . |
| 28 | The FAO expects at least 10 million hectares a year to be cleared between now and 2050 because of population pressures . |
| 29 | Mr Norris said he was happy with what he could see , describing the improvements to the station which handles 10 million passengers a year as ‘ excellent . ’ |
| 30 | The plant , operated by Oxford Energy Co , will consume 10 million tyres a year . |