Example sentences of "of a million [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 25 years ago there were almost a quarter of a million dairy farmers in England and Wales . |
| 2 | It boasts the development of scientific ‘ fingerprinting ’ techniques which trace the origin of illegal ivory — hardly a money spinner — and a stunt involving a quarter of a million bedding plants used to reproduce Van Gogh 's Sunflowers on a hillside in Scotland . |
| 3 | London has seen the disappearance of more than three quarters of a million manufacturing jobs in 20 years : an aggregate figure masking stagnation and decline in an inner south-east zone , and growth in the west , in part related to Heathrow Airport , as a ‘ high-tech ’ crescent ( Hall et al . , |
| 4 | When the war ended it had reached 200,000 and by the early 1920s there were a quarter of a million Boy Scouts . |
| 5 | Also the US market for Philippine sugar disappeared ( being replaced by corn syrup ) , throwing a quarter of a million sugar workers out of their jobs . |
| 6 | That takes a quarter of a million Earth years , or thereabouts , ’ Bernice explained . |
| 7 | All was about to be revealed as we tracked down madcap Jenny Hanley , the woman at the heart of a million schoolboy fantasies . |