Example sentences of "[prep] a million [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A local farmer is seeking nearly three quarters of a million pounds in compensation . |
| 2 | there 's total here of a million pounds in the er next financial year when er part Inland Revenue and part of |
| 3 | And the advice that we got was that if we wanted to establish proper ownership and control of that land again , we would have to seek a High Court action , possibly the House of Lords as well , and that total cost would be in the region of a quarter of a million pounds in legal costs , and we also then stood the , well risk of losing the case as well , so we could have spent two hundred and fifty thousand pounds for nothing . |
| 4 | Towards the end of last year we finished a review of all our management costs and our structure costs and , as a consequence , have saved a quarter of a million pounds in our administration . |
| 5 | For Britain 's three quarters of a million miners in the nineteen thirties and forties , dust was a massive problem . |
| 6 | By late 1989 the labour force in the Welsh pits , once a quarter of a million men in those proud valleys , had fallen to less than 5,000 . |
| 7 | Russian losses were massive — General Falkenhayn estimated human loss at about ‘ three-quarters of a million men in prisoners alone ’ — and artillery and weaponry of all kinds had been taken in great quantity . |
| 8 | A quarter of a million injectors in the city , 125,000 of them already HIV positive . |
| 9 | You can imagine , it sounds like a million owls in that cave . |
| 10 | Richard made the gown I wore to meet Charles and Di at the premiere for The Living Daylights and I felt like a million dollars in it . ’ |
| 11 | He was born in another age , the age when we played not for a million dollars in prize-money , or television sets , or holidays in the sun , but for the simple , exhilarating pleasure of golf itself . |