Example sentences of "a [adj] million " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Central Bank plan to complete a 950,000 million cruzados ( approximately US$14,000 million ) liquidity squeeze by Sept. 17 began in early September . |
| 2 | PAUL STEWART is now a 2.3 million midfield player at Liverpool but he is the first to admit it needed a referee 's red card to make it all happen . |
| 3 | Edmontosaurus The skeleton of a 70 million year old plant-eating dinosaur ( 9 metres long ) from South Dakota , USA |
| 4 | He said and do you know that we 're a multi- million pound organization . |
| 5 | The new Earl also inherited a 2.25 million bill for death duties as well as 80,000 a year running costs . |
| 6 | Two airmen have appeared in court on a forty million pound arson charge after a fire destroyed a hangar at an RAF base . |
| 7 | Two airman charged with starting a forty million pound fire at an RAF parachute packing centre have been released on bail , and given bodyguards . |
| 8 | I believe we are a forty million pound organisation . |
| 9 | A forty million pound organisation needs proper management , and therefore you do have costs on top of it , and they are proper costs . |
| 10 | It 's we 're very conscious that erm the costs that we 've incurred we need to keep strapped down to a minimum , but we have to manage a forty million pound organisation and you can not do this on the back of an envelope . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Probably the waves cut the cliffs of weak killas far back inland , over a period of a few million years . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later . |
| 18 | And it must be prepared to lose a few million pounds in the process . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If the land is all eroded into the sea in a matter of a few million years , how does the system keep on running ? |
| 21 | A few million dollars were kept abroad to provide for the family 's regular needs from videos and colour television sets through to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's preferred Gillette razors . |
| 22 | ‘ A few miles of convent floor to polish , a few million sheets to hem . |
| 23 | But even its unmediated , image-led format can only command an audience of around 3 million — a few million less than normally turn on to Songs Of Praise . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It is relatively young , with a probable age of no more than a few million years . |
| 27 | But they probably paid a few million more for Alan Bond 's Irises . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's only a few million people , Doctor . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They 're very big landowners — probably worth quite a few million piasters . " |