Example sentences of "be a million [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You 're a million miles from that . |
2 | There 'd be a million fools by now , |
3 | Yeah , there must be a million Marks about |
4 | So it 's a million times minus a million . |
5 | I further question the policy erm which , erm just mentioned , the average salary issue is that we want , erm that 's , that 's gon na cost us a million pounds next year , but we are doing it , so there 's a million pounds in growth in everybody 's er budget and basically everybody 's budget when we come to later . |
6 | It 's a million miles in style from our usual sweeping lawns and landscaped vistas , but in the latest in our series Summer Gardens , we visit the little piece of England where a little really HAS to go a long way . |
7 | There 's a million bands in America like them . |
8 | Measures underway to effect this are ; increased substitution of gas for oil in industrial complexes and combined heat and power ( CHP ) schemes , but it is still reckoned that the USSR is a million miles behind the West in terms of energy efficiency . |
9 | But his luxury home , complete with a trout farm and stables , is a million miles from the council prefab he was brought up in during the '50s . |
10 | The world of interface development goals and positive confrontation resolution is a million miles from fast wickets and slow bowlers . |
11 | Happiness on Mary 's face reveals more than words about contemporary care that is a million miles from formal institutions of the past . |
12 | That was 1983. 1988 a Government report declared there was a million houses in Britain unfit for human habitation . |
13 | The romantic agony that had bewitched him was a million miles from the conjugal love he was now determined to celebrate . |
14 | And it was a million miles from what Ronni had assumed ! |
15 | Now they managed to get along together reasonably well , but she knew their relationship was a million miles from what it had once been , and it was an enduring sadness in her life . |
16 | The source of the Wylye , a famous Wiltshire trout stream , was a million gallons of water pumped from a nearby borehole . |