Example sentences of "a million [noun pl] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an address to Young Unionists , the Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP slammed SDLP and Eire politicians who claimed it cost a million pounds each day to secure the border . |
| 2 | The Oxford-based charity Oxfam made more than a quarter of a million pounds last year from second-hand and home-made toys . |
| 3 | Oxford United lost almost half a million pounds last season despite selling off several key players . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well as you can see from what Frank said , the six main sectors overall did n't fare too badly , sixteen percent drop in aggregate at the trading level and in fact er , our other interest less expenses were actually ended on eleven percent because we had a million pounds more profit from Lakeside when we sold the Tesco 's site . |
| 6 | It 's costing half a million pounds this year to pay for bed and breakfast . |
| 7 | So Chairman just to in conclusion , we continue , we are proposing to continue this daily expansion of nursery places , our half a million pounds this year would be divided up roughly three hundred and fifty one thousand pounds on revenue and a hundred and fifty thousand pounds on capital and would gain us over four hundred new places , that 's in line with the type of expansion that we achieved |
| 8 | If every confrontation requires the dispatch of half a million troops half way round the globe , the NWO will have failed . |
| 9 | Intel Japan says worldwide sales of i960 chips should exceed a million units this year with US market research Instat forecasting the part will have the largest RISC processor market share this year . |