Example sentences of "[prep] half a million [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are probably in the region of half a million pounds at the moment , which does not bode well for the company which may be trying to raise half a million pounds of equity . |
| 2 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It might have been the stories about businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags . |
| 5 | Our mission was to take back from the Boche those few miles of battered ground that we 'd bought with half a million lives in those Battles of the Somme , two years before . |
| 6 | The Home Office has also put in half a million pounds into car crime prevention schemes like the Trax project in Oxford , which gives young offenders the chance to play with cars legally . |
| 7 | The Home Office has also put in half a million pounds into car crime prevention schemes like the Trax project in Oxford , which gives young offenders the chance to play with cars legally . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that Moscow had severed relations with the dictator Batista in 1952 , the USSR had made somewhat erratic purchases of Cuban sugar throughout the 1950s , which amounted to half a million tons in the peak year , 1955 . |
| 9 | That sum equates to half a million pounds at today 's values — and this was six years before his two epic ring struggles with Barney Ross , so whatever motivated ‘ Baby Face ’ McLarnin to box Ross , it was n't poverty or money . |
| 10 | The charity aims to raise up to half a million pounds from the scheme . |
| 11 | Egged on by her colleagues , she pitched Sir Willie on half a million shares in OTC traded Crane Holdings , at 28p . |
| 12 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |