Example sentences of "[conj] a million [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he now confirm that one side effect of the appalling poll tax is that more than a million citizens of this country have not registered to vote ? |
| 2 | The Israeli potash and bromine works at the southern end produce more than a million tonnes of these minerals a year . |
| 3 | The tip , which has been called the biggest in Europe , receives more than a million tonnes of waste every year , nearly two thirds of it toxic . |
| 4 | Tarmac , the company behind £11m. worth of development , says more than a million tonnes of material has been removed and 500,000 tonnes of stones brought in . |
| 5 | More than half the programs we write at Bell Labs contain more than a million lines of code . ’ |
| 6 | A couple have won more than a million pounds on the pools — and are putting the jackpot down to the lucky pixie mascot they used to pick the numbers . |
| 7 | The Hampshire fourth division side , which is more than a million pounds in debt , have been given notice to quit their own ground . |
| 8 | The Howards had hoped for more than a million pounds in compensation … the cost of caring for Michelle , and paying for the court case , has stretched their finances to the limit . |
| 9 | Forty-eight hours after the Novell-buys-Unix announcement , Microsoft was out telling folks like The Wall Street Journal that it would sell more than a million copies of Windows NT the first year after it comes out . |
| 10 | It sold more than a million copies in Britain alone and won me the Billboard award for best singer/songwriter in America . |
| 11 | Professor Stephen Hawking 's popular guide to cosmology has sold more than a million copies in hardback around the world . |
| 12 | The H-bomb , with an explosive capacity of more than a million tons of TNT , had fallen into the Atlantic Ocean off southern Spain . |
| 13 | The scheme , which already covers more than a million motorists in the UK , can cost as little as £6.50 a year . |
| 14 | The Evangelical Alliance , representing more than a million Christians of all denominations , was so concerned over the increasing problems created by the occult that it published Doorways to Danger . |
| 15 | And here I am , Kate thinks , sitting opposite you and thinking there 's more distance between us in terms of class and sex awareness than a million years of chat over drinks at six dollars a go on the Oriental Hotel terrace could ever hope to bridge . |
| 16 | It means laying more than a million miles of underground cables in our streets at a cost of £6 BILLION . |
| 17 | Like the Brown University Corpus , the ‘ Lancaster Corpus ’ would consist of more than a million words of various kinds of English . |
| 18 | The American Civil War , the first ‘ modern ’ war with ultimately more than a million men under arms , divided families and friends as much as it split a great nation in two . |
| 19 | ‘ Two of the main Siberian pipelines pass through this station which has storage facilities on site for more than a million barrels of crude oil . |
| 20 | A Formula One racing driver has started court proceedings to recover more than a million dollars from a team which has hit financial trouble . |
| 21 | She felt hung over , and a million miles from the bed she wanted to be asleep in . |
| 22 | The Irish maintain that there exists , somewhere upon the planet , a treasure trove of Croesusian magnitude , where these gold and silver fellows hobnob with single earrings beyond number and a million gemstones from engagement rings . |
| 23 | The Charity wants a million pounds and a million items of winter clothing as part of their 'Cold Front' appeal . |
| 24 | There may be as many as a million ants in one nest . |