Example sentences of "be ten million [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's thought there are ten million cases each year .
2 Cos he 's saying , he 's saying by , by twenty seven , some time in twenty , nineteen twenty seven there were two million , about two million names and therefore that meant that there were ten million members .
3 Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do .
4 I 'd rather there were ten million Sineads and no Madonnas — BP
5 ‘ There were ten million people and no food , ’ he whispered .
6 This video by the Scout Association has been made to launch it 's ten million pounds fund raising campaign .
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