Example sentences of "[adv] a million [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er so with these three measures plus the seven hundred and one thousand estimate er underspent th this year to carry forward , we have er about a million and a half to use against er further grant and of the options listed in section ten er , ours are not dissimilar from the , er from and I best pick the |
| 2 | Brazil has been boosted both by David Byrne , whose new Latin big band made such an impression here last week , and the dance hit , Lambada , by Kaoma , which sold over a million and a half copies in France and became the best-selling European single of the year . |
| 3 | Over a million and a half barrels of herring a year had been exported to Russia prior to the embargo . |
| 4 | For example , in a survey I carried out on the membership of the National Trust — one of the largest voluntary associations in Britain with over a million and a quarter members — it was decided that topics should include such things as how people came to join , how they felt about the payment of subscriptions , how much they read of the literature the Trust sent them , what their main interests in conservation were , how active a part they wanted to play in the work of the Trust , and so on . |
| 5 | New pits were sunk at Dare ( 1870 ) and Bwllfa ( 1877 ) : by 1900 the four collieries of the Ocean Company were producing over a million and a half tons of coal annually , and many other pits had also been sunk profitably . |