Example sentences of "a million and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 , the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) , estimated that there were just over a million ( 1,010 thousand ) one parent families in Great Britain caring for more than a million and a half ( 1.6 million children ) . |
| 2 | Lord Malmesbury queried the Government 's view that the concentration of offices would produce a saving in ground rents , when the land alone for the block scheme ‘ would cost a million and a half of money ’ . |
| 3 | In the previous half-century it could not have been more than a million and a half in all . |
| 4 | Er so with these three measures plus the seven hundred and one thousand estimate er underspent th this year to carry forward , we have er about a million and a half to use against er further grant and of the options listed in section ten er , ours are not dissimilar from the , er from and I best pick the |
| 5 | erm I could mention the recreation budget , because I think you talked about recreation ; in about nineteen eighty the recreation budget was a million and a half , it 's now six and a half million plus . |
| 6 | For example , in a survey I carried out on the membership of the National Trust — one of the largest voluntary associations in Britain with over a million and a quarter members — it was decided that topics should include such things as how people came to join , how they felt about the payment of subscriptions , how much they read of the literature the Trust sent them , what their main interests in conservation were , how active a part they wanted to play in the work of the Trust , and so on . |
| 7 | thing I told you about lady in red , remember that , a million and a quarter , |
| 8 | It 's cost a million and a quarter pounds to build but according to the pupils it 's worth every penny . |