Example sentences of "[n mass] [num] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Steed 's bowler hat from The Avengers is guesstimated at £300-£500 , while a Thunderbirds rocket takes off at £1,000-Pounds 1,500 and a selection of monsters from Aliens are £300-£400 each . |
| 2 | For example project A has an initial cash outflow of £1 million and a cash inflow of £300 000/year for 10 years . |
| 3 | Edith would have an action under s. 4 and an action in public nuisance . |
| 4 | Now he takes charge of a division with turnover approaching £3 billion and a product portfolio ranging from toothpaste to Calvin Klein perfumes . |
| 5 | Over 100 stocks were listed with a total nominal value of just under £125 billion and a market value slightly in excess of this . |
| 6 | More than three million hens have been destroyed at a cost of more than £5 million and a number of egg producers have been forced out of business as a result . |
| 7 | Now , after over £5 million and a lot of work , it 's ready . |
| 8 | The total value of research funds held was almost £3 Million and a total of 243 research publications were produced , 138 of them in the Department of Biological and Molecular Sciences . |
| 9 | And that 's where these certificates are the only guarantee that I can provide which will actually say well if we get fifteen percent inflation in nineteen ninety seven , they will pay fifteen p percent inflation , plus the three and a half percent three and a quarter percent bonus . |
| 10 | Over the year , despite a fall in gross mortgage lending from £9.1 billion to £8.3 billion and a drop in net lending from £3.9 billion to £3.3 billion , the Halifax increased its share of the mortgage market to 18 per cent . |
| 11 | Albert Fall arranged for their transfer to the Department of the Interior , and then leased them in secret to two private oil magnates from whom , it was later revealed , he had received substantial bribes — some $300 000 and a herd of pedigree cattle . |
| 12 | With pre-tax profits of £1.3 million and a purchase price of around £8 million , FUS was a good deal for Norton . |
| 13 | The LAPD had 7,000 officers , albeit better trained , with an air fleet of eighteen helicopters , a budget of over $400 million and an arsenal the teenagers in the gangs could never match . |
| 14 | Earlier this year five other guests were awarded more than £6 million after a jury heard 80 per cent of the rooms in a South Carolina hotel had spyholes . |
| 15 | The auditors find fault with every stage of the ministry 's work and call for a review of site research for road improvements after the cost of improving the A6 at Chapel-en-le-Frith , Derbyshire , had jumped from £17 million to £36 million when an embankment and retaining wall collapsed . |
| 16 | * Brazilian timber company Gethal Amazonia has been fined a record of £1.4 million after a helicopter survey revealed it had illegally chopped down Amazon rain forest trees |
| 17 | A CAB driver and an unemployed man will make close to £2.5 million after a jury ruled they wrote the Fifties classic Why Do Fools Fall In Love ? |
| 18 | It features Zoffany 's Cockfight ( see Round-Up ) , estimated at £1.5 million and a herd of fat cows and bulls from a private collection ( est. from £1,500–4,000 ) . |
| 19 | With funds to invest worth $1 billion and a reputation for picking winners , he can move markets : the gold price has since climbed rapidly by almost $15 , passing $150 an ounce for the first time since October . |