Example sentences of "[art] million [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | International donors have delivered only about a quarter of the 200,000 tons of promised food aid — a fraction of the million tons the country needs . |
| 2 | Hong Kong 's Victoria Harbour is used by over a quarter of a million ships a year . |
| 3 | Based on the Teesside Development Corporation 's ‘ renaissance ’ project along the river banks and old docklands , the museum is expected to attract a million visitors a year from its opening in 1995 . |
| 4 | Now it attracts a million visitors a year . |
| 5 | Almost half a million visitors a year come to wander round the grounds or float past in punts on the River Cherwell . |
| 6 | The stretch of beach attracts a million visitors a year and wardens collect an average of two tons of litter each day . |
| 7 | All I have to worry about is designing , instead of production ETAs or trying to work out my taxes whilst being in a million meetings a day . |
| 8 | But the surprising interlude — the lava , pouring at the rate of a million tons a day since December from Europe 's highest and most active volcano , has not stopped but has simply stopped here — provided a rare example of nature doing the protecting . |
| 9 | It might be possible , using the latest technology , to build a computer today that could put scores on a million positions a second ; such a machine would need more the 30 years to look five moves ahead . |
| 10 | I write as chairman of Connoisseurs Scotland , the association of top Scottish hotels whose members provide something close to half a million bed-nights a year . |
| 11 | The company decided to put all it 's litigation work , worth over a million pounds a year , out to tender . |
| 12 | You might earn almost a quarter of a million pounds a year — ’ |
| 13 | However , after spending some time amid the pandemonium of this noisy office , Anita had come to one definite conclusion : Laura might well earn an absolute fortune — reputedly a quarter of a million pounds a year — but , as far as Anita was concerned , she certainly deserved every penny ! |
| 14 | Two workshops for the disabled could be closed to save a council nearly half a million pounds a year . |
| 15 | The air ambulance is available to all ambulance services within flying time of the West Midlands , but it 's trial period of one year expires in May … and without a promise of half a million pounds a year it wo n't fly again . |
| 16 | Police protection for members of the Royal Family living in Gloucestershire is costing council tax payers more than a million pounds a year . |
| 17 | But local hoteliers are warning that changing the venue would cost the local economy a million pounds a year . |
| 18 | Shutting it down will save the National Health Service almost a million pounds a year . |
| 19 | Closing Over , much of which is already locked up will save the NHS almost a million pounds a year , which will be spent on more community nursing and rehabilitation . |
| 20 | Now the Meningitis Trust has a turnover approaching a million pounds a year , a full-time staff of 16 , and trials begin in Gloucestershire next year on additional vaccines . |
| 21 | Last year bad debts cost a million pounds a day . |
| 22 | The company has been losing more than a million pounds a month and blames the collapse on cheap foreign imports and the recession . |
| 23 | A property developer is hoping to defy the recession by putting flats in a converted Mill on the market at up to a quarter of a million pounds a time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |
| 26 | The latest results mark a milestone for Sherwood , which now claims to be Britain 's biggest sock-maker , pumping out a million pairs a week , and is a supplier to that favourite of underwear retailers , Marks & Spencer . |
| 27 | It 's selling half a million snails every year , and they 're becoming so widely accepted as a food that they 're even being sold on the supermarket shelves . |
| 28 | At thirty-two , he confesses to Louise the manner in which he has spent many hours of his life : imagining what he would to if he had an income of a million francs a year . |
| 29 | Results are due in a couple of weeks but there are those who claim Sun 's run rate ca n't possibly add up to a quarter of a million units a year . |
| 30 | It now makes sense to join the rest of the world by paying for what we use , say experts Kent Meters in Luton , Bedfordshire , a firm which turns out a million meters a year — and sells them abroad . |