Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a million [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if somebody had slipped an extra sheet of paper between the pages of the book which now , at one point consists of perhaps a million pages , at another of a million and one . |
| 2 | In the meantime , the UK is now the third largest producer of beef and veal in the EEC , though its production of about a million tonnes is only half of that of France and it is only seventh in the table of per capita consumption at 22.3kg per annum . |
| 3 | ‘ He ripped off a firm of disreputable City stockbrokers to the tune of about a million pounds and spent it on high living — yachts , mistresses , that sort of thing . |
| 4 | The emplacement of over a million tonnes of alkali-rich cementitious material into a saturated groundwater environment would be likely to make the groundwater more alkaline . |
| 5 | I would suggest even that since there is a surplus in C P D , of over a million pounds , that er , they are perfectly capable of funding their own studies . |
| 6 | Ten years later there would be four hundred Americans with an annual income like hers , of over a million dollars . |
| 7 | He had lived quietly and unobtrusively for weeks behind Marble Arch , one of over a million foreigners in the British capital . |
| 8 | So we serve a population of over a million people . |
| 9 | The water supply of over a million people living in the area are is contaminated by a range of pollutants , including heavy metals , and nitrates at concentrations of up to 25 times the permitted EC limits . |
| 10 | In 1985 , 63% of lone parent families ( with nearly a million children ) were either in receipt of Supplementary Benefit ( SB ) or had incomes below the level of SB , compared with 10% of two parent families with dependent children . |
| 11 | In 1985 some two-thirds ( 63 per cent ) of one-parent families ( with nearly a million children ) were living in poverty — that is they were either receiving supplementary benefit ( now income support ) or had incomes below the supplementary benefit ( sb ) level . |
| 12 | I wisht I could put you in a cage with about a million mice and let you have fun . ’ |
| 13 | Still it was hard when she 'd just been asked to blow up an orbiting city with almost a million inhabitants . |
| 14 | It employed almost 100,000 staff directly , mainly in our social security offices , and was responsible for the National Health Service — which with almost a million staff was the largest employer in Europe . |
| 15 | This study has shown that when phonemes are selectively encoded as broad classes ( the mixed sets ) or entirely encoded as mid-classes , utterances are sometimes parsed into over a million word-strings . |
| 16 | It comprises 700 parishes in the French-speaking part of Cameroon , with over a million members , two-thirds of whom are women . |
| 17 | For example , it was apparent that the belief that with the establishment of a comprehensive system of National Insurance fewer and fewer people would need the ‘ safety net ’ of National Assistance was being proved false , with over a million allowances being paid out weekly in 1949 . |
| 18 | Used to cry her eyes out sometimes when she 'd had a few , and say she 'd be in purgatory for about a million years . |
| 19 | The complaint covered parts of East Anglia and the Midlands , home to around a million people . |
| 20 | Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel have been touring seriously for the last three years , having played to over a million people in a stint of two hundred and eighty-five concerts . |
| 21 | I mean it 's quite clear is n't it what we wa we want a party of Labour , we 're organized , we 're organized mass organization that speaks for almost a million people in this union , I do n't but er , almost a million people . |
| 22 | The company decided to put all it 's litigation work , worth over a million pounds a year , out to tender . |
| 23 | United 's goals have dried up though … and they could do with a man like Southend 's Stan Collymore who hit the winner 12 minutes from time … he 's worth over a million pounds … and left Oxford penniless on saturday … |
| 24 | Unemployment remained high , and it was estimated that at any one time at least a million men were without work . |
| 25 | Vega-built B–17G N3509G had undergone an intensive maintenance and restoration programme at World Jet Inc in Florida and looked at least a million dollars , but the bidding slowed at $900,000 . |
| 26 | At least a million people of working age migrated to the the South East during the inter-war period , and Wales , as a whole , lost both its natural increase in population and an actual loss of about 450,000 people . |
| 27 | This should not happen for at least a million years … but there is an outside chance that it could happen tomorrow . ) |