Example sentences of "a million [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could he really make a million before he was forty , or had Becky just been teasing him ? |
| 2 | ‘ It would have been a chance in a million but maybe next time we will be lucky . ’ |
| 3 | It 's a million but erm |
| 4 | Now , we hear time and time again of the one million capital that was spent and yes and I do hope that the provisions that will now be made through a combined budget which Mr seems to think is half a million but I can assure you it is not half a million however , I do I can further reassure him that by the time the Highfields er and Moat management committee have gone through with this it will be half a million , there will be a proper budget provision as it should have been in the last five to six years . |
| 5 | A million and one impressive ways with left-overs . |
| 6 | More than a million and half vehicles enter or leave central London every working day . |
| 7 | Brazil has been boosted both by David Byrne , whose new Latin big band made such an impression here last week , and the dance hit , Lambada , by Kaoma , which sold over a million and a half copies in France and became the best-selling European single of the year . |
| 8 | That may seem reasonable , but it 's a lot for Poland , where a million and a half zlotys a month is considered more or less an average wage . |
| 9 | For busy housewives , Christmas can present itself with other problems — over-excited children and a million and one things to do . |
| 10 | New York , they say , is the great example of the Democratic Welfare State ; a million and more on welfare , hospitals in chaos , 2,000 people murdered each year , the nation 's highest concentration of Aids sufferers , kids shooting kids in the schools , and all in return for the highest levels of tax in the United States . |
| 11 | More than a million and a half children — one in eight — live in these one-parent families . |
| 12 | In 1986 , the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) , estimated that there were just over a million ( 1,010 thousand ) one parent families in Great Britain caring for more than a million and a half ( 1.6 million children ) . |
| 13 | A background paper to the social security review estimated that the number of one parent families would be between a million and 1.5 million by 2005/6 . |
| 14 | Lord Malmesbury queried the Government 's view that the concentration of offices would produce a saving in ground rents , when the land alone for the block scheme ‘ would cost a million and a half of money ’ . |
| 15 | Over a million and a half barrels of herring a year had been exported to Russia prior to the embargo . |
| 16 | For example , in a survey I carried out on the membership of the National Trust — one of the largest voluntary associations in Britain with over a million and a quarter members — it was decided that topics should include such things as how people came to join , how they felt about the payment of subscriptions , how much they read of the literature the Trust sent them , what their main interests in conservation were , how active a part they wanted to play in the work of the Trust , and so on . |
| 17 | It is as if somebody had slipped an extra sheet of paper between the pages of the book which now , at one point consists of perhaps a million pages , at another of a million and one . |
| 18 | Former neighbour Alan Bott , a director of P & O Containers said : ‘ We heard he had made a million , lost a million and made a million again . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't understand the music so I wo n't say it 's no good but if Rolf Harris can sell a million and so can ‘ Sugar Sugar ’ then there 's obviously a market for that type of thing too . |
| 20 | In the period under discussion , the Zande number about half a million and live mainly as cultivators growing maize , sweet potatoes , ground-nuts and some fruit ; the presence of tsetse fly makes it impossible to keep cattle . |
| 21 | By 1700 , its population was over half a million and , by 1801 , it was described by contemporaries as ‘ the metropolis of England , at once the Seat of Government , and the Greatest Emporium in the known World ’ . |
| 22 | Cauterets claims to have a more plentiful supply of sulphurous waters than any other spa on earth , to the tune of a million and a half health-giving litres a day , and this is a claim you will not wish to dispute once you have pushed open the swing doors to the neo-Roman ‘ Baths of Caesar ’ and breathed in the warm and all too recognizably sulphur-laden air . |
| 23 | But the negative motive is not the whole of it ; Athens was anxious about her own supplies of grain in the mid-fifth century , and benefited in 445/4 from a massive gift of corn — 30,000 medimnoi , or a million and a half daily rations — from an Egyptian prince ‘ Psammetichos ’ ( Philochorus F 119 = Fornara 86 ) . |
| 24 | Food imported for a million and a half people . |
| 25 | Unemployment rose to a million and inflation got worse , so the government had to reverse many of its policies . |
| 26 | While this argument holds true in an ideal world users are often subject to other considerations such as previously installed hardware , purchasing restrictions and a million and one other trivia of which that perennial bugbear ‘ compatibility ’ is possibly the most emotive . |
| 27 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 28 | thing I told you about lady in red , remember that , a million and a quarter , |
| 29 | New pits were sunk at Dare ( 1870 ) and Bwllfa ( 1877 ) : by 1900 the four collieries of the Ocean Company were producing over a million and a half tons of coal annually , and many other pits had also been sunk profitably . |
| 30 | ‘ Sure the music is important — very important — but a million and one other things have their own potential ( and actual ) importances . |