Example sentences of "few million [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's worth a few million pennies at the moment . |
| 2 | As a lowly , poorly paid teacher and a member of Mensa , I wonder if RUNNING could put me in touch with sponsors and promoters who might make me a few million pounds over the next couple of years , even though I 'm not Canadian . |
| 3 | Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later . |
| 4 | And it must be prepared to lose a few million pounds in the process . |
| 5 | There are a few other initiatives that , for a capital sum of a few million pounds , hold the prospect of bringing forward such a radical transformation of the immediate circumstances of poorer people , and the extent to which they control their own lives . |
| 6 | Well for the sake of a few million pounds the Conservatives will slash this area , that area , will say we need to close this unit , that unit . |
| 7 | By investing a few million pounds into the anti-poaching forces of Kenya and Tanzania , as is happening at the moment , we will probably reduce and even stop the poaching problem for the time being but the long-term survival of the elephant in eastern Africa is going to depend ultimately on those countries ' abilities to incorporate wildlife and wild area protection into an overall land use policy . |
| 8 | ‘ The national media attention given to Pwllheli , in the run-up to the final decision , must be worth a few million pounds in advertising terms alone . ’ |
| 9 | Mount Charlotte Investments , the hotels group , has awarded a £5 million contract to Tarmac Construction to carry out the work after buying the site 's freehold from Edinburgh District Council for ‘ a few million pounds ’ . |
| 10 | Or tell them , tell them there 's a few million pounds worth of gold coins in some field ! |
| 11 | This technology allows us to produce particle beams with enormous power ( up to a million amps at a few million volts ) but very short duration , typically one ten-millionth of a second . |
| 12 | He could , of course , join a few million others and draw the dole . |
| 13 | They 're very big landowners — probably worth quite a few million piasters . " |
| 14 | The real significance of these comparisons remains unknown , as do the real workings of the dolphin mind , but it seems that dolphins and porpoises achieved their modern enlarged brains about 15–20 million years ago , whereas the evolution of the human brain is a phenomenon of the past few million years at the most . |
| 15 | By the end of the Palaeocene , only a few million years from the Cretaceous extinction of the giant reptiles , there were representatives of many of the living mammalian orders , including , for example , the primates ( the order to which man belongs ) , the carnivores ( cats dogs , and most living predators ) and the rodents ( rats , mice ) . |
| 16 | To do this will involve discussion of concepts which you may not immediately associate with volcanoes : the fact that Africa and South America were once joined and later drifted apart ; that the direction which is customarily thought of as ‘ north ’ would , a few million years ago , have appeared to be ‘ south ’ on an ordinary magnetic compass . |
| 17 | by no means all rhyolite lavas are associated with obsidian — the majority are not — and , as one goes further back through the geological record , obsidian becomes progressively more and more scarce , due to devitrification , and none at all is found in rocks more than a few million years old . |
| 18 | Probably the waves cut the cliffs of weak killas far back inland , over a period of a few million years . |
| 19 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 20 | When this unlikely idea was first launched in England and Canada , the exact pattern of the past few million years of pole reversals had yet to be charted . |
| 21 | If the land is all eroded into the sea in a matter of a few million years , how does the system keep on running ? |
| 22 | It can hardly be coincidental that these remarkable evolutionary events , taking place within only a few million years , correspond so closely in time with an episode of exceptional igneous and urogenic activity ( Larsen & Pitman , 1972 ) , the rapid disintegration of Pangaea ( Hallam , 1980 ) and the biggest marine transgression since the mid-Palaeozoic , apparently produced either by a phase of accelerated sea-floor spreading or by a dramatic increase in the length of the ocean ridge system . |
| 23 | We also know that the specialization took place very early in the evolution of mammals and that the ancestors of the main groups that are alive today all appeared around the same time , give or take a few million years . |
| 24 | Consequently , one can not securely argue that these stars demonstrate that massive star formation has taken place in the nucleus within the past few million years , and that massive star formation continues there . |
| 25 | It is relatively young , with a probable age of no more than a few million years . |
| 26 | Over the next few million years there was an enormous expansion of this non-smell part of the cerebral hemispheres — the neopallial explosion as Elliot Smith called it . |
| 27 | Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System . |
| 28 | There is little danger over the next few million years that we shall exhaust the store of useful energy . |
| 29 | However , the Pacific-North American plate boundary has undergone significant changes over the past few million years with the subduction of part of the East Pacific Rise spreading ridge and the evolution of a predominantly transform margin . |
| 30 | It seems likely that yet another northward-dipping thrust will develop even further to the south in a few million years . |