Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [adj] million [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The adverts are expected to reach 6.3 million readers in that period , a figure calculated from the audited circulation of each publication .
2 There are currently 53 collieries in operation , which are expected to produce 68 million tonnes this financial year .
3 A selection of the 36 classic sports and competition cars that are expected to fetch several million pounds at a Brooks auction during the London Motorfair
4 A selection of the 36 classic sports and competition cars that are expected to fetch several million pounds at a Brooks auction during the London Motorfair at Earl 's Court on 26 October .
5 The authority plans to overspend this year and has been told to cut ten million pounds .
6 Two mines are being developed to export 8 million tonnes per year to Japan on a 15-year contract with a five-year renewal .
7 The central authorities were instructed to send 100 million roubles to pay the railwaymen .
8 The report mentions that between April 1990 and March 1991 7690 kms main and 690 , OOO services were laid displacing 12 million tons of material — more than the channel tunnel .
9 Tour operators have been licensed to sell 14.3 million holidays in the coming year , Civil Aviation Authority figures reveal .
10 The 600-megawatt Rotterdam station , due to begin operation in the mid-1990's , is expected to discharge 75 million tons of CO2 over its 25 year lifetime .
11 There are plans to bring in a similar scheme in Oxford — it 's going to cost eighteen million pounds and take five years .
12 This measure is projected to raise 375 million francs a year .
13 A grass-roots initiative supported by dozens of prominent writers , actors and politicians is trying to collect one million signatures urging more liberal citizenship laws .
14 The council is planning to spend ten million pounds more than government guidelines next year .
15 The bank had taken over the shares of the owners of the Art-B company when they were arrested for fraud in August 1991 [ see p. 38399 ] and was said to owe 6,000,000 million zlotys ( $430 million ) to the central bank ( NBP ) .
16 Now that it was going to cost fifteen million dollars , though , I was n't so sure .
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