Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a million [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between now and December , the company estimates that revenue will be down by a million pounds . |
| 2 | The sea glared on with a million eyes , a million witnesses to our getaway . |
| 3 | Washington ordered the initial 1,800 heavily armed troops to sweep into the capital to save up to a million Somalis starving to death . |
| 4 | Up to a million Armenians , by late February , were reported to be demonstrating daily in the city 's Opera Square . |
| 5 | Finally , they provide databases offering online access to extensive files of bibliographical information ( up to a million records , in one case ) . |
| 6 | Phillips Auctioneers in Oxford is working with other branches throughout Britain to raise up to a million pounds for local charities in the ITV Telethon '92 . |
| 7 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
| 8 | This technology allows us to produce particle beams with enormous power ( up to a million amps at a few million volts ) but very short duration , typically one ten-millionth of a second . |
| 9 | IXI believes other hardware vendors could be drawn into the initiative as many spend up to a million dollars maintaining their separate Motif developments . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Out of a million worlds , what did one matter ? |
| 13 | I 'm bloody glad I 'm out of there , I would n't go back in a million years , of course he 's sitting there with this chinese cup in his hand , |