Example sentences of "a [adj] million pounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a lowly , poorly paid teacher and a member of Mensa , I wonder if RUNNING could put me in touch with sponsors and promoters who might make me a few million pounds over the next couple of years , even though I 'm not Canadian . |
| 2 | Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later . |
| 3 | And it must be prepared to lose a few million pounds in the process . |
| 4 | There are a few other initiatives that , for a capital sum of a few million pounds , hold the prospect of bringing forward such a radical transformation of the immediate circumstances of poorer people , and the extent to which they control their own lives . |
| 5 | Well for the sake of a few million pounds the Conservatives will slash this area , that area , will say we need to close this unit , that unit . |
| 6 | By investing a few million pounds into the anti-poaching forces of Kenya and Tanzania , as is happening at the moment , we will probably reduce and even stop the poaching problem for the time being but the long-term survival of the elephant in eastern Africa is going to depend ultimately on those countries ' abilities to incorporate wildlife and wild area protection into an overall land use policy . |
| 7 | ‘ The national media attention given to Pwllheli , in the run-up to the final decision , must be worth a few million pounds in advertising terms alone . ’ |
| 8 | Mount Charlotte Investments , the hotels group , has awarded a £5 million contract to Tarmac Construction to carry out the work after buying the site 's freehold from Edinburgh District Council for ‘ a few million pounds ’ . |
| 9 | Or tell them , tell them there 's a few million pounds worth of gold coins in some field ! |
| 10 | Erm the cost of sales is two and a half million pounds which gives us a gross profit of almost two and a half million pounds . |
| 11 | Erm the cost of sales is two and a half million pounds which gives us a gross profit of almost two and a half million pounds . |
| 12 | You 'll notice on the overhead cost the big cost is the advertising which is two and a half million pounds and that unfortunately takes us into a a net loss at the end of the year of one point almost two million pounds . |
| 13 | He died intestate 27 May 1930 in Ryelands , Leicester , leaving a fortune of ten and a half million pounds , the largest intestate legacy in British history to that point . |
| 14 | In nineteen ninety one , arrears totalling one and a half million pounds was due to those twelve thousand eight hundred and twelve workers . |
| 15 | Er , we also announced at the same time as the Alton , er , Towers acquisition that Longman had acquired Rank Training for eleven and a half million pounds . |
| 16 | I 'd just like to make two or three points first of all the exchange factor which Frank touched upon when , when talking about profits you probably all totally familiar but I have forgotten quite how much the dollar has strengthened recently beginning of the year it was nearly two dollars and the result of that is that for the erm first half as a whole the impact of er exchange translation was adverse for our profits compared with last year to the tune of about one and a half million pounds . |
| 17 | Two and a half million pounds may sound a lot to run a profession of just over 7,000 practising barristers — but we are only able to hold that figure by reason of the hard work from our small but totally dedicated Secretariat , and by the voluntary work of many members of the profession . |
| 18 | In total , we estimate that next year , police and fire pensions will cost , gross , nearly seven and a half million pounds . |
| 19 | structural benefits that we do have this backlog twenty six and a half million pounds of work . |
| 20 | I see no reason whatsoever for a council that will still have two and a half million pounds in balances after the labour group proposals , why on earth we need to build another hundred thousand pounds into the budget , paid for by er council tax payers to provide for unforeseen expenditure . |
| 21 | So in net terms we can have maximum , we wo n't go to this in the current till next year , erm two and a half million pounds of growth . |
| 22 | These may be trying times for estate agents but Croome Court 's still expected to go for one and a half million pounds |
| 23 | Count Nikolai Tolstoy , who was ordered to pay record libel damages of one and a half million pounds , is fighting in the High court to have the debt cancelled . |
| 24 | Two and a half years ago , he faced having to pay record libel damages of one and a half million pounds . |
| 25 | The one and a half million pounds damages has risen with interest and costs to two million pounds . |
| 26 | The High Court has ruled that the historian from Oxfordshire will still have to pay Lord Aldington one and a half million pounds for allegations he made about his war record . |
| 27 | A writer who was ordered to pay two and a half million pounds in libel damages and costs , has uncovered new material which he claims casts doubt over the judgement . |
| 28 | The government is giving back nine and a half million pounds to Oxford City Council , after admitting a mistake in the calculations for the housing budget . |
| 29 | The Government is increasing the council 's spending limit by two and a half million pounds . |
| 30 | This afternoon , the Environment Secretary Michael Howard , back pedalled a little by announcing that he would allow the authority to spend another two and a half million pounds . |