Example sentences of "[prep] a million [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each . |
| 2 | To wash it down , fifteen thousand bottles of champagne , twenty five thousand bottles of wine , and a quarter of a million pints of beer . |
| 3 | A DOCUMENTARY programme from NBC-TV in January 1973 , had such an impact that in the following 48 hours more than a quarter of a million copies of the associated book were sold . |
| 4 | * The Laotian Agriculture Ministry has announced plans for the semi-settlement of a quarter of a million families of shifting cultivators , in an effort to restrict the effects of " slash and burn " farming on the country 's forests . |
| 5 | And then there was the greatest ace of them all , Otto Kretschmer , whose record of having sunk a quarter of a million tons of Allied shipping was never beaten , Kretschmer who had perfected the night tactics , taught him by Dönitz , of letting a convoy pass over him , surfacing between the lines , loosing off torpedoes at ships either side of him , then diving again to get clear . |
| 6 | During the ten months the siege was to last , Richard 's road gangs were said to have shovelled nearly three-quarters of a million tons of metal on to the road . |
| 7 | Within the space of only eight years , although desperately ill and while painting and illustrating as well , he completed some sixty short stories , all later published posthumously , three novels , and a quarter of a million words of journals . |
| 8 | More than five hundred acts had already enclosed three quarters of a million acres of ‘ waste ’ between 1760 and 1801 . |
| 9 | Blindly , Gina followed suit , gasping as the spirit hit her throat like a million splinters of ice , freezing first then burning , bringing tears to her eyes . |
| 10 | This leaves the Commission wondering what to do with a million tonnes of prime beef — and it is prime beef , because intervention accepts only the very best steer beef . |
| 11 | Midnight and a silvered road of dreams , a black field shot with a million bursts of white — the name is glow-worm , the sight is magic . |
| 12 | The world seemed to shiver into a million splinters of prismatic colour , silent and fiery , so that they themselves seemed to become beings other than themselves , inhabitants of another planet , out of time . |
| 13 | A freshening breeze broke the surface of the water into a million fragments of dancing light and set the flags and pennants and striped awnings fluttering gaily . |
| 14 | These have maximum ranges of 2000 km and 4100 km respectively , and they each carry a single warhead with a yield of one megaton ( equivalent to a million tonnes of TNT ) . |
| 15 | During the lifetime of the roof they will have to deal with up to a million gallons of water and will be subjected to the sun 's ultra-violet rays , frost , snow and wind . |
| 16 | The US Energy Department and the Westinghouse concern significantly under-reported leaks of up to a million gallons of radioactive water from storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation , according to a General Accounting Office ( GAO ) report . |
| 17 | The defences were increased by a million metres of barbed wire and extensive minefields in 1912 . |