Example sentences of "of a million pounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't rare for a quarter of a million pounds to be spent on an act in one year . |
| 2 | Through their sponsorship of cricket , Cornhill , until recently a little-known City insurance company , turned themselves into a household name at the cost of a million pounds over five years . |
| 3 | It had been previously owned by Maurice Macmillan MP , son of the late Conservative Prime Minister Lord Stockton , and the Duchy paid over three-quarters of a million pounds for the property . |
| 4 | It was a perfect site because the building , for which a quarter of a million pounds ( £8,250,000 ) had been set aside from the Twentieth Century Fund , was meant to be ‘ a challenge to the Church of England ’ . |
| 5 | A yearly budget of a million pounds from the cigarette company make Fusil 's dream for an annual multi-discipline event in the most beautiful corners of the world come true . |
| 6 | On riverside sites , sometimes on land previously used for industry , new or refurbished units have been put on the market at prices in excess of a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm afraid a quarter of a million pounds sterling paid out on your mother 's life makes it my business . ’ |
| 8 | This level of debt , Ms Harris says , is ‘ not unrealistic ’ for a firm with a fee income of a couple of a million pounds . |
| 9 | When considering these findings it should be borne in mind that many companies round up the fees paid to the nearest million pounds ( or one place of decimals of a million pounds ) and that foreign currency movements can cause distortions . |
| 10 | It gave Hugh Lorimer some satisfaction to inform Philip that his son had inherited the estate in Meath and a personal fortune of a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 11 | A quarter of a million pounds is worth waiting for . ’ |
| 12 | The team he was a part of in 1966 shared £28,000 out of a total competition profit of a million pounds . |
| 13 | What we 're actually lo doing here is those of longer members who remember we used to have a thing called the area health authority which was proposed in a three tier structure by a corporation called the McKenzie corporation at great expense charity governed by three quarters of a million pounds to invent structure of the National Health Service nineteen seventy two some years later they came back and said , well give us another million pounds and we 'll go back and look at it again , and say actually we were wrong , and they abolished the areas , and produced districts ! |
| 14 | Gatherum Castle is of immense size and quite new , having been built by the Duke for a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 15 | Whilst I was working for the council , someone came to ask and we had some new o new officer appointed and he was very worried about getting ca er p permission from the council to launch a sewer scheme that was going to cost a quarter of a million pounds , a very large amount in those days . |
| 16 | Mr Stannard was a partner in one of the leading county estate agencies ; his name graced the pages of the local paper each week , spread like a banner above photographs of houses all priced , it seemed to Edward , at a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 17 | In 1838 he inherited a fortune of a million pounds from his uncle , Robert Holford . |
| 18 | A quarter of a million pounds has been the motive for far worse crimes than the one you contemplated . |
| 19 | Charles could have chosen any excuse for the phone call and it was pure chance that he had lighted on the meaningless ‘ numberplate racket ’ I ‘ So that 's what made you drive down in the Datsun , and move the plan forward , and lose a quarter of a million pounds ? ’ |
| 20 | This was the home of Henry Jekyll 's favourite friend — the man who would inherit Jekyll 's quarter of a million pounds . |
| 21 | Being the skipper meant she was in sole command of a million pounds ' worth of yacht . |
| 22 | This house is worth at least three-quarters of a million pounds . |
| 23 | The profits averaged out at a quarter of a million pounds per partner . |
| 24 | Those are the Saw Doctors interesting this about the Saw Doctors is one of them won the lottery in Ireland I do n't they have a lottery we 're go when are we going to get a national lottery that 's what I want to know when are we going to get it a national next year we 're going to get a national lottery that 's right and one of the Saw Doctors won the national lottery and he won three quarters of a million pounds er and they have n't made much money the Saw Doctors but he won three quarters of a million pounds so that have n't worked for quite some time but they are back on the scene as I speak and er they really if if they er come to York they 're certainly worth seeing . |
| 25 | Those are the Saw Doctors interesting this about the Saw Doctors is one of them won the lottery in Ireland I do n't they have a lottery we 're go when are we going to get a national lottery that 's what I want to know when are we going to get it a national next year we 're going to get a national lottery that 's right and one of the Saw Doctors won the national lottery and he won three quarters of a million pounds er and they have n't made much money the Saw Doctors but he won three quarters of a million pounds so that have n't worked for quite some time but they are back on the scene as I speak and er they really if if they er come to York they 're certainly worth seeing . |
| 26 | A publishing company , financed by Edinburgh District Council and the Wester Hailes Partnership in Edinburgh has collapsed with debts which are thought to run to over a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 27 | A local farmer is seeking nearly three quarters of a million pounds in compensation . |
| 28 | This is pa at least in part due to the glossy advertising that they 've launched at a cost of a quarter of a million pounds a week . |
| 29 | My Lords , will the er Minister say how much money has been spent on the so called cash protection for grant maintained schools and will she confirm that the one quarter of a million pounds almost a quarter of a million pounds being spent on advertising grant maintained schools is additional er to the scheme , to the first part of the question . |
| 30 | My Lords , will the er Minister say how much money has been spent on the so called cash protection for grant maintained schools and will she confirm that the one quarter of a million pounds almost a quarter of a million pounds being spent on advertising grant maintained schools is additional er to the scheme , to the first part of the question . |