Example sentences of "[prep] a million [noun pl] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police estimated that two million people and a quarter of a million cars flooded into Liverpool and the Wirral , and 42 miles of no waiting cones lined the roads . |
| 2 | A third of a million Frenchmen died in the first five months … |
| 3 | It lodged in the shattered brickwork as a million windows fell in tinkling shards to the sidewalk . |
| 4 | The SDP were likely to be a far greater danger to us , as disgruntled ex-Conservative voters who would never have voted Labour in a million years turned to a cosy middle party . |
| 5 | The real reason for her lack of promotion , she knew , would never in a million years occur to him . |
| 6 | Washington ordered the initial 1,800 heavily armed troops to sweep into the capital to save up to a million Somalis starving to death . |