Example sentences of "[prep] more than [det] [art] million " in BNC.
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| 1 | We expect to maintain into the next century our North Sea production of more than half a million boe/d . |
| 2 | During its years of power Constantinople was the largest city in Europe with a population of more than half a million . |
| 3 | The great city — say at this period a settlement of more than 200,000 , including a scattering of metropolitan towns of more than half a million — was not so much industrial ( though it might contain a good many factories ) as a centre of commerce , transport , administration and the multiplicity of services which a large concentration of people attracts and which in turn swell their number . |
| 4 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 5 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 6 | With more than half a million driversstopped and breathalysed last year , people are more aware than ever that detection is a real possibility . |
| 7 | From a slow start in the 1950s , and after a great deal of scepticism , as well as a great deal of research , triticale is now growing on more than half a million hectares , in the USSR , Europe , the United States and South America . |
| 8 | Employment in construction rose by two-thirds over the six years , increasing its share of nonagricultural employment by more than half a million . |