Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a million [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the ten months the siege was to last , Richard 's road gangs were said to have shovelled nearly three-quarters of a million tons of metal on to the road . |
| 2 | It had been previously owned by Maurice Macmillan MP , son of the late Conservative Prime Minister Lord Stockton , and the Duchy paid over three-quarters of a million pounds for the property . |
| 3 | Russian losses were massive — General Falkenhayn estimated human loss at about ‘ three-quarters of a million men in prisoners alone ’ — and artillery and weaponry of all kinds had been taken in great quantity . |
| 4 | From nothing he amassed a fortune estimated at close to a million pounds by a combination of sustained hard work and practical technical ability . |
| 5 | These have maximum ranges of 2000 km and 4100 km respectively , and they each carry a single warhead with a yield of one megaton ( equivalent to a million tonnes of TNT ) . |
| 6 | It spent a third of a million pounds on this flare siphoning off dangerous methane gas — and has these Nigerian Lanner Falcons on constant guard against flocks of seagulls which can be a danger to planes from nearby RAF bases . |