Example sentences of "a million pounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three wishes would have brought her perfect sight , a million pounds and an ape-hanger motorbike . |
| 2 | You only have to look at the balance sheet its treasurer John Lister will present to its annual meeting in December , a million pounds sitting on reserve . |
| 3 | What a curious and deep shaft into English society is opened by the reflection that when reputations and perhaps a million pounds in costs alone are at stake , we revert to the patterns of upper-class education . |
| 4 | Every day half a dozen or so old ladies leave a million pounds or more , generally widows whose major asset was a decent house in the South-east . |
| 5 | He or she can go to seed having bought a mansion and put a million pounds in the bank . |
| 6 | It is n't rare for a quarter of a million pounds to be spent on an act in one year . |
| 7 | Through their sponsorship of cricket , Cornhill , until recently a little-known City insurance company , turned themselves into a household name at the cost of a million pounds over five years . |
| 8 | It had been previously owned by Maurice Macmillan MP , son of the late Conservative Prime Minister Lord Stockton , and the Duchy paid over three-quarters of a million pounds for the property . |
| 9 | Almost 100 new companies had been formed , and Schach had been able to secure over a million pounds in bank guarantees to finance not only such expensive disasters as Dreaming Lips , Love from a Stranger and The Marriage of Gorbal , but even films that were never made . |
| 10 | Last season 's champion , Marc Girardelli , having switched skis for a reported half a million pounds , was fourth , Alberto Tomba , Italy 's Olympic sensation , fifth . |
| 11 | Geoffrey Beattie hears of businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags and learns the difference between a mobster and a muppet . |
| 12 | It might have been the stories about businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags . |
| 13 | The disadvantage of AMS is the high cost of establishing such a facility ( around a million pounds sterling , nearly two million dollars ) and of running it . |
| 14 | The Tabernacle cost £31,383 , over a million pounds today . |
| 15 | It was a perfect site because the building , for which a quarter of a million pounds ( £8,250,000 ) had been set aside from the Twentieth Century Fund , was meant to be ‘ a challenge to the Church of England ’ . |
| 16 | The difference between success and failure is marginal , but if a club goes down , managers lose their jobs , players lose their jobs , the club loses a million pounds . |
| 17 | Known locally as the Kenwood Triangle , Bishop 's Avenue has properties starting at a million pounds and rising to the £25 million asking price of the vast , newly-built Towers . |
| 18 | ‘ Supposed to be worth a million pounds , ’ his voice sank to a whisper . |
| 19 | A yearly budget of a million pounds from the cigarette company make Fusil 's dream for an annual multi-discipline event in the most beautiful corners of the world come true . |
| 20 | England 's best known bridge was built across the Thames in 1888–94 , and cost over a million pounds . |
| 21 | On riverside sites , sometimes on land previously used for industry , new or refurbished units have been put on the market at prices in excess of a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 22 | What with all those houses , plus the school , he must have been worth close to a million pounds , give or take the odd thousand . |
| 23 | But in his eagerness to demonstrate how wonderful the scheme was , he let drop the fact that in the event of his death Karen would inherit not only the house , fully paid-off under the terms of their endowment mortgage , but also a lump sum amounting to almost half a million pounds . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm afraid a quarter of a million pounds sterling paid out on your mother 's life makes it my business . ’ |
| 25 | You can make a private deal with insurance companies to insure your legs for a million pounds if they are your sole way of earning a living ! |
| 26 | ‘ A million pounds . ’ |
| 27 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 28 | Actress Jeananne Crowley on Carlton Television boss Michael Green I CHEERED like mad when a couple of papers got clobbered with damages of half a million pounds . |
| 29 | This time round , it will earn her more than half a million pounds . |
| 30 | British Transport Police frittered away a million pounds when there was no evidence in the first place . ’ |