Example sentences of "[art] million [noun pl] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sky was a place of awakening , of vigour , as full of life as the million seeds in the earth Woolley hacked a long , scarlet gash in it with a burst of machine-gun fire and pulled up hard into a tight , half-rolling turn so that he could look back and down . |
| 2 | Erm but maybe this , this issue is , is , could be important in the sense that you , you 've got tt er if you take China as a whole you 've probably got well in excess of a million villages erm you 've probably got a denser population in the south than the north so you 've got more than half a million villages in the south |
| 3 | Despite the fact that Moscow had severed relations with the dictator Batista in 1952 , the USSR had made somewhat erratic purchases of Cuban sugar throughout the 1950s , which amounted to half a million tons in the peak year , 1955 . |
| 4 | And that 's why the Ross on Wye firm say its business is booming , while Jensen is more than half a million pounds in the red . |
| 5 | He or she can go to seed having bought a mansion and put a million pounds in the bank . |
| 6 | there is a tendency to standardize different time-scales — but in fact different musical types , and sometimes different pieces within a type , may sell at different rates over different time-spans ; thus the Beatles ' ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ sold a million copies in a week while Ken Dodd 's ‘ Tears ’ took five months to do the same ( Harker 1980 : 98–9 ) . |
| 7 | I 've worked with better material than you , but it 's either that or — have you ever spent a million years in a coal measure ? ’ |
| 8 | A quarter of a million injectors in the city , 125,000 of them already HIV positive . |