Example sentences of "that [det] millions " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any discussion about the influence of the media over our perception of reality , it is important to recognise that millions of people form an idea of reality which is based firmly on experience , not on media images , and that these millions include most older people . |
| 2 | " How strange it is , " mused Fleury , feeling the futility of everything yet at the same time enjoying the feeling , " that these millions of wings , with all their wonderful machinery of nerves and muscles , should be made to serve the purpose of a single flight . |
| 3 | It is not easy to grasp the financial significance of organisations diluting their products , for instance , so that many millions of customers are paying a few pence extra for their goods . |
| 4 | But it can be assumed that many millions of poor rural women are caught in a vicious cycle : they eat food to get human energy , and then spend all this energy in producing food and collecting the energy needed to cook it . |
| 5 | New figures show that many millions of homes in London and the South East face crippling bills of £800 or more for the new tax . |