Example sentences of "[vb base] a million pounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our bombs cost a million pounds each |
| 2 | Last year bad debts cost a million pounds a day . |
| 3 | All these are policed by Gloucestershire 's royal protection squad — and the county 's tax payers contrubute a million pounds towards the bill , which comes out of the police budget . |
| 4 | You make some really good friends , friends you fucking trust your life on sort of thing or your girl friend get a million pounds in , in , in a amazingly short time , cos you 've got to work together , its really , really good . |
| 5 | Every day half a dozen or so old ladies leave a million pounds or more , generally widows whose major asset was a decent house in the South-east . |
| 6 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |