Example sentences of "[prep] a million [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia . |
| 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 | A yearly budget of a million pounds from the cigarette company make Fusil 's dream for an annual multi-discipline event in the most beautiful corners of the world come true . |
| 4 | there 's total here of a million pounds in the er next financial year when er part Inland Revenue and part of |
| 5 | Telegrams of ‘ interest ’ and ‘ support ’ were received from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York respectively , and by the end of the year Mrs Whitehouse and Mrs Buckland were claiming to have over a quarter of a million signatures on the Manifesto . |
| 6 | A DOCUMENTARY programme from NBC-TV in January 1973 , had such an impact that in the following 48 hours more than a quarter of a million copies of the associated book were sold . |
| 7 | For Britain 's three quarters of a million miners in the nineteen thirties and forties , dust was a massive problem . |
| 8 | A quarter of a million injectors in the city , 125,000 of them already HIV positive . |
| 9 | Every year , over a quarter of a million children under the age of 3 contract polio . |
| 10 | Ermine negligées ; bath in milk , numerous underpanties , chemises and other intimate items , all of which look like a million dollars on the svelte Ralston figure , just round enough . ’ |
| 11 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
| 12 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 13 | For since the east coast main-coast line was electrified the police have spoken to a million children about the dangers of trespassing . |
| 14 | For since the east coast main-coast line was electrified the police have spoken to a million children about the dangers of trespassing . |