Example sentences of "[art] [adj] million [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STRATHCLYDE has rejected building six incinerators to dispose of the 1.8 million tonnes a year of wet sludge dumped in the Firth of Clyde . |
| 2 | The half million popunds a year keeps it flying five days a week over an area from the outlying villages of Herefordshire to Northamptonshire and the city streets of the West Midlands . |
| 3 | Since the big companies moved in the annual haul from these waters has increased from three and a half thousand to two and a half million tons a year . |
| 4 | It 's budget — around one and a half million pounds a year . |
| 5 | Bernard Lavery is the doyen of the home-grown British giant vegetable world , and he organised yesterday 's event at Alton Towers , the Midlands pleasure park which attracts two and a half million visitors a year . |
| 6 | I think that it is going to have a good effect on improving trading for the better parks and attractions in this country and as you know I think , Alton Towers is the leading er , park of its kind in this country , Chessington which we also own is the second er , leading park , one and a half million visitors a year , Alton Towers approximately two million visitors a year in this country . |
| 7 | Around the world , they cause the deaths of three and a half million children every year . |
| 8 | With your help we can achieve that goal in 1990 — and in doing so , we can save the lives of three and a half million children every year . |
| 9 | So by sharing a little of what we have , we can remover the threat of these terrible diseases which , currently , kill three and a half million children a year . |
| 10 | But today we already generate a thousand million marks a year from small and middle-sized companies ’ . |
| 11 | You get paid for playing er , you do n't ha or you have very few scores , you do n't have line-outs and basically you tackle about a hundred million times a game . |
| 12 | It is thought that similar but even larger black holes , with masses of about a hundred million times the mass of the sun , occur at the centers of quasars . |
| 13 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |