Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] million [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estimates of the cost of covering the tailings lake with soil varied from £2 million to £7 million . |
| 2 | Compared with the first five months of 1990 , exports dropped from $3,050 million to $1,460 million , and imports from US$4,110 million to US$1,590 million . |
| 3 | Prime 's third quarter revenues dropped from $391 million to $358 million , while a profit of $12 million turned into a $105 million loss . |
| 4 | Earnings per share rose from 1.4p to 2p , though turnover dropped from £209.7 million to £174 million . |
| 5 | Pre-tax profits more than quadrupled from £5 million to over £20 million from 1984 — 5 to 1987 — 8 . |
| 6 | Profits were boosted by an interest charge slashed from £9.9 million to £4 million as a result of measures to cut debts . |
| 7 | The funding for the survey 's marine programme was slashed from $24 million to $13 million a year — money intended for both the Atlantic and the Pacific sections . |
| 8 | INVESTORS are exploring whether they have grounds for legal action against MTM , the troubled chemicals group whose value has collapsed from £256 million in February to £22 million . |
| 9 | Debt was slashed by £36 million to £73.2 million during the year , but there is still no dividend — nothing was paid for 1991 — because of the board 's ‘ determination ’ to continue to cut borrowings , the company said . |
| 10 | Don Goodman , later to be transferred for £1 million to Sunderland , netted the only goal . |
| 11 | Section 4 assistance to the industry has tripled from £1 million to nearly £33 million during the same period and has been of great advantage to the economy of Wales . |
| 12 | Operating profits from the construction division slumped from £13.1 million to £1.5 million , with turnover and margins adversely affected especially on construction tenders . |
| 13 | Pre-tax profits slumped from £25.0 million to £8.1 million in the 12 months to December . |
| 14 | Profits slumped from £109 million to £38 million in the six months to last March . |
| 15 | In the same period , civil legal aid has moved from £15.7 million to £16.5 million , a fall of nearly 20 per cent in real terms . |
| 16 | The shareholders in Velcro have received no dividends in 1989 and 1990 , despite the fact that pre-tax earnings have grown from $6.3 million in 1988 to $9.4 million in 1990 , and the company is awash in liquidity with marketable securities as of 30 September 1990 worth slightly less than $50 million . |
| 17 | Pre-tax profits have grown from £2.27 million in 1990 to £8.24 million in the year to last April . |
| 18 | In three years VPI 's value had risen from £9.55 million to £121 million . |
| 19 | Over the same period the cost of these schemes has risen from £10.63 million to £24.81 million , partly the result of the larger number of schemes , the increasing cost of materials and labour and perhaps also the increasing scale and thoroughness of many of the schemes carried out . |
| 20 | Some stop-gap funding was provided immediately for British Lion and this was followed , in April 1949 , by the setting up of the National Film Finance Corporation which the Board of Trade provided with a revolving fund of £5 million ( expanded to £6 million in 1950 ) . |
| 21 | the value of mortgage interest tax relief had risen to £4.500 million by 1986/7 , more than twice its real level of eight years before , despite the cut in the basic rate of tax . |
| 22 | HAMMER is being sued for $5.7 million in royalties and other damages by James Early , co-producer of the rapper 's ‘ Please Hammer Do n't Hurt 'Em ’ LP . |
| 23 | In May 1989 it was sold for $24.2 million at Sotheby 's in New York , to Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza , the Swiss billionaire industrialist . |
| 24 | New American money is watched very closely ; old money flogging off Grand Tour treasures ( the Duke of Beaufort 's cabinet sold for £8.58 million to baby- powder heiress Basia Johnson ) ; even auction-house staff ( how many people are in love with Grey Gowrie ? |
| 25 | And among the unexpected discoveries in the ‘ skiploads of junk ’ at Calke was a state bed with all its Chinese hangings , which had never been unwrapped and was therefore in mint condition ( valued at £1 million at least ) . |
| 26 | The budget called for $299,700 million for social security , $224,700 million for a variety of discretionary domestic spending programmes and $126,500 million for Medicare . |
| 27 | The revised economic blueprint called for $200,000 million in new investment in cities , training and infrastructure , to be financed by spending cuts and higher taxes for the rich and for corporations . |
| 28 | The report called for £200 million of government spending on fifth generation computing , that is computers that can think for themselves and get along with humans . |
| 29 | About £7 million was being spent annually on pushing the claims of washing powders such as Tide , Daz , Omo and Persil , compared with £1.7 million on pushing the performances of music , opera , ballet , theatre and visual arts . |
| 30 | Analysts predict it to report profits of £41 million in 1991 , compared with £63 million in 1990 . |