Example sentences of "million a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US provides more than $1 million a day to the Salvadorean Government . |
| 2 | Defence and security activities were estimated to be costing more than S 11 million a day . |
| 3 | The question , posed by the Tobacco Advisory Council , was asking if readers knew that if smokers did not pay £11.5 million a day in tax , the basic rate of income tax would rise by about 5p in the pound . |
| 4 | Last year it advanced £5 million a day to customers . |
| 5 | During 1980–81 Nigerian spending on development projects was at the rate of about $30 million a day . |
| 6 | The Government decided that it will need to increase its current level of borrowing from £50 million a day to £110 million . |
| 7 | BRITAIN is borrowing £100 million a day to keep the nation 's finances alive . |
| 8 | THE man from the Pru is shelling out more than £10 million a DAY on insurance settlements and maturing savings plans . |
| 9 | Companies are estimated to be paying out £6 million a day in household and commercial claims — £1.30 for each £1 of premiums they collect . |
| 10 | The bond was raking in £20 million A DAY . |
| 11 | Under the last Labour Government was not a subsidy of more than £1 million a day given to British Steel and to a number of other companies through regional development grant ? |
| 12 | More than 40 per cent of the output is exported to overseas markets : the equivalent of over 300 million pints annually or almost a million a day . |
| 13 | The government 's er oil revenues have gone up by £345 million , er that 's an average of £7.1 million a day , since the Gulf crisis started , and er they 're now running at over £13 million a day more than they were before the crisis commenced . |
| 14 | The government 's er oil revenues have gone up by £345 million , er that 's an average of £7.1 million a day , since the Gulf crisis started , and er they 're now running at over £13 million a day more than they were before the crisis commenced . |
| 15 | Casting a shadow over the CEGB 's last set of accounts in the state sector , the company announced yesterday that decommissioning costs have doubled to at least £600 million a station . |
| 16 | Seven million are already HIV infected in sub-Saharan Africa , increasing by over one million a year . |
| 17 | One estimate puts the cost in terms of sickness absence alone at over £700 million a year . |
| 18 | Soon InterCity were claiming that sales had doubled to 5 million a year . |
| 19 | Hamburg enjoys an extremely high level of film subsidy - approximately £6 million a year , or three times the sum available in Britain . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's a world market of over £100 million a year in clean technology and I want to see British industry winning a much larger share of it . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Cecil Parkinson , the Transport Secretary , has told BR that all subsidies for commuter services on Network South East — currently £141 million a year — will be removed by March 1993 . |
| 22 | Tax-payers ' backing for the loss-making provincial operation , now £400 million a year , will be cut by 25 per cent in the next three years , according to Mr Parkinson . |
| 23 | Appearance money or guarantees previously were illegal — though not unknown — and under the new system it has been estimated that some top players ( Lendl and Boris Becker make around £1.5 million a year ) could increase their annual earnings by 40 per cent . |
| 24 | The environmental pressure group calculates that the wasted energy costs £12 million a year and generates nearly 200,000 tonnes a year of extra carbon dioxide ( the primary greenhouse-effect gas ) from power stations . |
| 25 | UNEP and others have estimated that it would cost approximately $4,500 million a year over the next 20 years to slow and stop desertification , and to begin to reclaim the land that we have already lost . |
| 26 | FoE made a number of recommendations on taxes , incentives and greater spending on research ( including the government 's Energy Efficiency Office , which , remarkably , given the nature of the times , saw its budget restricted to £15 million a year for two years in succession — a loss in real terms ) . |
| 27 | After a review of the state of research , the government decided , in 1988 , that it could not justify continued expenditure of £100 million a year on a project with such an elusive prospect of commercial return . |
| 28 | From 1990 there would be a core research and development programme costing £10 million a year , just enough , in the government 's view , to allow continued collaboration with the French and Germans on the European Fast Reactor ( EFR ) . |
| 29 | One man died in the 1977 protest at the Creys-Malville FBR site in France : the Kalkar fast reactor in West Germany is mothballed ( at a reputed cost of £30 million a year ) largely as a result of green agitation . |
| 30 | Fitting catalysts is expected to cost British motorists £800 million a year . |