Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [adj] million " in BNC.
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| 1 | A placing in which selected shareholders ( usually investing institutions ) are invited to buy up to 15 million ( this had been limited to 3 million until 1986 ) of additional equity . |
| 2 | Visa 's services are marketed by 18,000 banks and its cards are accepted by ten million merchants worldwide . |
| 3 | But a lot of these things come quite naturally er I hope we 'll see on when we look at the video that really I do n't think anybody had a major problem with the voice er and the words as well when you 're talking about two million pounds so in terms of the voice I do n't believe anybody has any major problems . |
| 4 | What should have been produced by 4 million workers needed 6.7 million to be manufactured , i.e. per capita productivity was more than 50% below the planned level . |
| 5 | Some of the guys who are going for 10 million these days would n't even tie Cuntonas boots on a bad day . |
| 6 | New car registrations — only half a million in 1958 — jumped in 1963 to more than a million ( Today , they are running at two million . ) |
| 7 | It was announced on Dec. 11 that the value of the so-called " food mountain " , the buffer intervention stocks maintained by EC agencies to maintain prices , had been reduced from 4,660 million ECU to only 1,600 million ECU in the year ended September 1989 . |
| 8 | By 1983 , Costa Rica had lost 78% of its wet lowland forest and all of its dry ; by 1987 the Indonesian rain forests had been reduced from 65 million ha to 20 million and the Philippines from 16 million to one , though both countries had by then banned the export of unprocessed logs . |
| 9 | The new series , which will be seen by 15 million people a week , will include guides from Eric Richard , Sgt Bob Cryer of The Bill , who rode a Harley Davidson across the United States , Jimmy Tarbuck , who played golf in Portugal , and Michael Aspel , who built sand castles in Sardinia . |
| 10 | Ring John was to be ransomed for 4 million écus to be paid within six months . |
| 11 | this threshold for worldwide turnover is to be reviewed by the Council before 21 December 1993 and the Commission has stated its view that it should be reduced to 2,000 million ecu ( roughly £1400 million ) . |
| 12 | It calculated that present output of 25.26 million bpd would have to be reduced to 23.58 million bpd . |
| 13 | As from 1st September 1986 the cover under this policy will be increased to one million pounds . |
| 14 | The service power to view panelled view was that the three point nine million pounds was effectively a minimum exceptionable level and it was within this figure they required the one point six million on minor works and footways to be increased to two million pounds for nineteen ninety three ninety four , section three concludes that it will not be appropriate to attempt to finance these extra loan charges on a continuing basis on the fixed revenue budget , as they would each year and on an accum accumulative basis consume some three hundred and fifty thousand pounds . |
| 15 | Chairman I , I , I am and some of my colleagues a little confused on this paper , erm and I really ask that I , I understood that when we discussed this last , erm that the , the minor work which was one , one debated , erm was going to be increased to two million and that two million er , two million spend was going to come out of the existing budget , I 'm not quite sure from this whether it is or it is n't , could you explain ? |
| 16 | Spending on environmental protection will be increased to 35 million francs in 1993 , three times the 1992 level . |
| 17 | The budget deficit was to be cut to 60,000 million roubles by reducing central state expenditure on investment ( notably in heavy industry ) , the military and administration . |
| 18 | This stipulates that emissions of sulphur dioxide must be cut to 10 million tonnes below 1980 levels by the year 2000 . |
| 19 | And in relation to the greenhouse effect , FoE has calculated that by using energy-efficient fridges , freezers , domestic lighting and washing machines , the annual UK emission of carbon dioxide would be cut by 17.5 million tonnes . |
| 20 | The sale will be divided into some 400 to 500 catalogued lots which Tajan , after a first visit to the château , said he thought would be estimated at FFr15–20 million ( £1.5–2 million ; $2.7–3.6 million ) . |
| 21 | We know that the actual reorganization is going to cost thirty million I would have thought that every possible drainage problem could ever West Sussex could easily be rectified with thirty million pounds and we could all name a project er on which we would like to spend thirty million pounds . |
| 22 | The budget for equipment and investments , wholly financed by external funds , would be balanced at 10,000 million Comoros francs . |
| 23 | For example , the total cost of the Buxtehude experiment is 5.0 million DM , yet the saving in accident compensation has been estimated at 1.4 million DM for the first year of the experiment alone . |
| 24 | For Mu , 71/115 ( 62% ) of the utterances were parsed into 10 million or more word-strings ( Fig. 6.4 ) , but only 9/115(8%) utterances were parsed into 1000 or less word-strings . |
| 25 | The results show that for Ms , 40/115 ( 35% ) of the utterances were parsed into 10 million or more word-paths ( Fig. 7.1 ) , but only 13/115 ( 11.3% ) utterances were parsed into 1000 or less word-paths . |
| 26 | In 1988 British publishers ' sales were reported as 1,700 million pounds , of which 1,100 million were to individual purchasers , 240 million to ‘ public institutions ’ ( schools , higher education and public libraries ) , and a further 360 million estimated to be to ‘ private institutions ’ ( which include most commercial libraries ) . |
| 27 | His youthful and handsome appearance and his quick intelligence gave him a " star " quality that was particularly effective in the four televised debates between the candidates , which were watched by 110 million Americans . |
| 28 | Organisers say the race , which is being heavily promoted as a duel between Mansell and Indycar 's 1992 world champion , Bobby Rahal , is being beamed to 400 million households in 90 countries , including Russia . |
| 29 | The net emissions of Germany 's power stations were reduced from 1.6 million tonnes to 0.5 million tonnes within five years , enabling it to go far beyond the 30 per cent Club target . |
| 30 | But no one needed to be afraid of a future where 17 million ‘ dynamic ’ East Germans were united with 62 million West Germans . |