Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] million [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last five years criminal legal aid has soared from £25 million to £47 million while advice and assistance has gone up from £5.9 million to £15.4 million . |
| 2 | Because of the increased efficiency of our exploration programme , our spending on this activity has fallen from £744 million in 1990 to £xxx million in 1992 . |
| 3 | INVESTORS are exploring whether they have grounds for legal action against MTM , the troubled chemicals group whose value has collapsed from £256 million in February to £22 million . |
| 4 | Over the same period the cost of these schemes has risen from £10.63 million to £24.81 million , partly the result of the larger number of schemes , the increasing cost of materials and labour and perhaps also the increasing scale and thoroughness of many of the schemes carried out . |
| 5 | In the same period , civil legal aid has moved from £15.7 million to £16.5 million , a fall of nearly 20 per cent in real terms . |
| 6 | Section 4 assistance to the industry has tripled from £1 million to nearly £33 million during the same period and has been of great advantage to the economy of Wales . |
| 7 | It is interesting that since I have been the Minister responsible for regional policy , regional spending has increased from £506 million in 1990 to £534 million in 1991-92 . |
| 8 | The department 's budget in this area has increased from £218 million in 1981–82 to £310 million this financial year . |
| 9 | The Reagan administration has asked for $709.3 million for ballistic missile defence ( BMD ) for 1984 , and has proposed more than double that for 1985 . |
| 10 | Government spending on energy efficiency has decreased by £9.5 million since 1985 . |
| 11 | Turnover has surged from £6 million to £10 million and the firm is working 24 hours a day , six days a week throughout the year to meet demand . |
| 12 | Expenditure on TV in the year after BBC2 started increased from £27.6 million to £35.8 million ( BBC , 1966 , p. 194 ) . |
| 13 | If they each spent £400 on average , the Exchequer must have benefitted by £5,000 million from our labour-intensive tourist industry . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Zoffany 's now prime version of the picture has returned to its London home , having failed at £1.1 million on Friday in Christie 's British Pictures sale . |
| 15 | The auditors find fault with every stage of the ministry 's work and call for a review of site research for road improvements after the cost of improving the A6 at Chapel-en-le-Frith , Derbyshire , had jumped from £17 million to £36 million when an embankment and retaining wall collapsed . |
| 16 | The company , which has its UK headquarters in Harwich , revealed its net profit figure for 1992 had fallen by £3.5 million to £8.5m . |
| 17 | the value of mortgage interest tax relief had risen to £4.500 million by 1986/7 , more than twice its real level of eight years before , despite the cut in the basic rate of tax . |
| 18 | In three years VPI 's value had risen from £9.55 million to £121 million . |
| 19 | Sao Paulo 's capitalization alone , which had dropped by 70 per cent to US$15,400 million in 1990 , had recovered to $36,900 million by May and the volume of shares transacted had risen from an estimated 17,000,000 a day in January 1991 to an estimated 40-50,000,000 a day by June . |
| 20 | LEAs had asked for £34 million for this year but were allocated £13.6 million . |
| 21 | Hauser 's stake , worth £102 million in May 1984 had shrunk to £11 million by March 1985 . |
| 22 | Nor had the problems begun only at that time : the Bank for International Settlements had already warned that net bank lending had fallen steeply in the second quarter of the year , from $90,000 million to $65,000 million , while the amount raised in the world securities markets had shrunk from $44,000 million to $25,000 million . |
| 23 | Mr Shaw also reported that net debt had decreased from £63 million to £58 million . |
| 24 | Reporting interim pre-tax profits which have fallen from £1.82 million to just over £1 million for the six months to 31 December , the chairman , Trevor Spencer , said the many favourable factors now relating to the housing market must contribute to buyers ' confidence . |
| 25 | The shareholders in Velcro have received no dividends in 1989 and 1990 , despite the fact that pre-tax earnings have grown from $6.3 million in 1988 to $9.4 million in 1990 , and the company is awash in liquidity with marketable securities as of 30 September 1990 worth slightly less than $50 million . |
| 26 | Pre-tax profits have grown from £2.27 million in 1990 to £8.24 million in the year to last April . |
| 27 | To the delight of the animal rights movement , Britain 's trade in real fur is in drastic decline , with manufacturing figures issued by the DTI showing that sales have plummeted from £56 million in 1986 to £11 million last year . |
| 28 | In Wales the total investment grant payments have increased from £12.2 million in 1979/80 to £21.5 million in 1982/83 . |
| 29 | The resources available for safety have increased from £140 million to about £200 million for the current year , and are likely to continue at at least that level . |
| 30 | and manufacturing exports have increased by £76 million for each and every working day . |