Example sentences of "[adj] a million [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously inspired by MADONNA 's example , ( and it seems that she 's about to be millions of dollars richer as over half a million copies of Sex changed hands last week ) CURVE have decided to come over all raunchy and are releasing a Stateside compilation which goes under the provocative title of ‘ Pubic Fruit ’ , although whose pubes are involved we are not informed . |
| 2 | The apparent aim was to strengthen the Sunday Telegraph , which with a circulation of 667,000 was nearly half a million copies behind the daily and facing a fight for its life . |
| 3 | Erm but maybe this , this issue is , is , could be important in the sense that you , you 've got tt er if you take China as a whole you 've probably got well in excess of a million villages erm you 've probably got a denser population in the south than the north so you 've got more than half a million villages in the south |
| 4 | Why does the Minister think that — as the hon. Member for Saffron Walden ( Mr. Haselhurst ) said — those having a close knowledge of adult education , including the voluntary sector , women 's institutes and members of the Conservative party , are so deeply unconvinced by the Minister 's replies that there were half a million signatures to a petition opposing the Government 's proposals ? |
| 5 | The Pru has half a million motorists on its books and is sending them each a booklet when their policies are renewed explaining the benefits of conversion . |
| 6 | Olma , the Swiss Agriculture and Dairy Fair brings around half a million visitors to St Gallen each year . |
| 7 | The People 's Palace opened its doors and its Winter Gardens to a stupendous half a million visitors within the first five months . |
| 8 | The Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore has shown that the city draws in nearly half a million tonnes of firewood every year . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that Moscow had severed relations with the dictator Batista in 1952 , the USSR had made somewhat erratic purchases of Cuban sugar throughout the 1950s , which amounted to half a million tons in the peak year , 1955 . |
| 10 | A hospital burns unit is trying to raise half a million pounds for resesarch into new techniques of plastic and micro-surgery . |
| 11 | They paid half a million pounds for Norweigan International striker Jan Orga Fiortoft |
| 12 | These are probably in the region of half a million pounds at the moment , which does not bode well for the company which may be trying to raise half a million pounds of equity . |
| 13 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 14 | Investment in canals and inland waterways peaked at around £1 million per annum in the canal mania of the 1790s , while outlay on the steady expansion and improvement of turnpiked roads averaged half a million pounds between 1760 and 1810 and thereafter doubled to £1 million . |
| 15 | I put that as an amendment , not reiterating the entire Labour budget , but I asked the Liberal Democrats , who purport to want to erm provide that sort of service to vulnerable people could they not accept that extra half a million pounds as an amendment , and two out of the group abstained , the rest of them voted against that as an amendment . |
| 16 | These are probably in the region of half a million pounds at the moment , which does not bode well for the company which may be trying to raise half a million pounds of equity . |
| 17 | That sum equates to half a million pounds at today 's values — and this was six years before his two epic ring struggles with Barney Ross , so whatever motivated ‘ Baby Face ’ McLarnin to box Ross , it was n't poverty or money . |
| 18 | Tynagh Mines ' manager , David Fitzgerald , denied all the allegations and said that the company had spent half a million pounds on safety work and intended spending a further £200,000 . |
| 19 | The council 's already spent half a million pounds on renovating the priory , making safe the dilapidated tithe barn next door and landscaping the grounds . |
| 20 | Swindon Town are spending half a million pounds on replacing captain Colin Caulderwood … with 22 year old Adrian Whitbread from Orient . |
| 21 | A new University is spending half a million pounds on TV advertising to attract more students . |
| 22 | Stoke Mandeville is treating too many patients , and needs to save half a million pounds on its budget , so three wards will be closed , and thirty five nurses may lose their jobs . |
| 23 | They invested half a million pounds into this factory . |
| 24 | The Home Office has also put in half a million pounds into car crime prevention schemes like the Trax project in Oxford , which gives young offenders the chance to play with cars legally . |
| 25 | The Home Office has also put in half a million pounds into car crime prevention schemes like the Trax project in Oxford , which gives young offenders the chance to play with cars legally . |
| 26 | Stoke are still demanding half a million pounds with Celtic offering eighty-five thousand . |
| 27 | THREE Chinese restaurant owners who admitted passing bogus credit card bills worth nearly half a million pounds through their books , walked free from court yesterday after a jury failed to reach a verdict . |
| 28 | If you follow form this year 's national hunt festival should be a feast for the Nicholson team … he 's enjoying his best ever season … a record 80 winners have won over half a million pounds worth in prize money … stable jockey Richard Dunwoody is leading the chase for the championship … and the secret of all this success |
| 29 | Geoffrey Beattie hears of businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags and learns the difference between a mobster and a muppet . |
| 30 | It might have been the stories about businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags . |