Example sentences of "in a million " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chance of getting infected from a pint of blood is less than 1 in a million . |
| 2 | DATE : Tuesday 1 October TIME : 0035 SCREENING : ONE IN A MILLION — The Ron Le Flore Story ( 1978 ) |
| 3 | The true story of a major league baseball star who went from the street corner to stardom and then to armed robbery but is saved from destruction by a one in a million chance . |
| 4 | Government research says that the presence of dioxins in flue gases from plants such as that at Pontypool ‘ are in the low range of parts per trillion ’ ( one part per trillion is of the order of 30 seconds in a million years , or one ounce in 28 million tons ) , and that all the UK PCB-destroying plants together emit only a ‘ few grammes per year ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ He was one in a million was Charlie . |
| 6 | He was a husband in a million , a good kind man , a wonderful man to his friends . |
| 7 | He was one in a million ! ’ |
| 8 | The SDP were likely to be a far greater danger to us , as disgruntled ex-Conservative voters who would never have voted Labour in a million years turned to a cosy middle party . |
| 9 | Not in a million years . |
| 10 | You 'd never in a million years see a dancing man in a field in the country . |
| 11 | They do not occur equally ; modern carbon consists of 99 per cent of 12 C and 1 per cent of 13 C , whereas 14 C is present at the level of only one part in a million million . |
| 12 | Not in a million years . |
| 13 | TEN TRACKS for autumn — Danny Rampling 's recommendations : Eve ‘ Love Come Down ’ ( More Protein ) ; Camachos Project ‘ Slave ’ ( US Nu-Groove ) ; Crazy Eddie ‘ Nena De Ibiza ’ ( Creation ) ; Rumbledub ‘ God Is In The House ’ ( white label ) ; Be Big ‘ That 's When It 's Gold ’ ( 10 ) ; Rio Rhythm Band ‘ Carnivale de Case ’ ( white label ) ; Pleasure Inc ‘ Sexy Dancer ’ ( US New World ) ; Leslie Sunder ‘ One In A Million ’ ( Major Force ) ; Lupo ‘ Keep It Up ’ ( Low Spirit ) ; Danny Rampling ‘ I Hate Hate ’ ( Creation ) |
| 14 | And no way , in a million , million years , would she ever let them take Zambia from her again . |
| 15 | ‘ There was instantly that feeling between us that probably happens once in a million . |
| 16 | The colt is out of a half-sister to Milligram , who is out of the 1,000 Guineas winner One in a Million . |
| 17 | It was a chance in a million that I came through it all alive . ’ |
| 18 | By contrast , the chances of a major nuclear accident resulting in 100 fatal cancers was set at one in a million . |
| 19 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 20 | The isotope shift and hyperfine splitting might alter these energy transitions by about one part in a million . |
| 21 | Even if the Sun is shrinking at a rate of merely 0–01 per cent per century it would totally disappear in a million years ; and it would have been twice its present size a million years ago . |
| 22 | The result of all this can be likened to a vast ocean , teeming with fish of which only one in a million is edible , and just as this would present a monstrous task to fishermen entrusted with the responsibility of feeding a hungry populace , so does the almost unbelievable quantity of religious teaching and literature by its very size and complexity make it impossible for it ever to serve a serious purpose in satisfying the undoubted universal desire for a respected and well-beloved religion . |
| 23 | All I have to worry about is designing , instead of production ETAs or trying to work out my taxes whilst being in a million meetings a day . |
| 24 | ‘ A chance in a million , ’ he was saying and Lee could not help but agree with him . |
| 25 | It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction . |
| 26 | The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose . |
| 27 | When the war was over , in a million years , and little Marie asked , ‘ What was your war like , Auntie Vi ? ’ she would tell her , ‘ Drab , queen . |
| 28 | Trapped by hunch in a million |
| 29 | THE ruthless kidnap gang jailed yesterday for a total of 65 years were trapped by a hunch in a million . |
| 30 | SPOT the dog is a greyhound in a million — he 's beaten cancer , and this weekend will resume his racing career in a bid to pay back some of the costs of two major operations that saved his life . |