Example sentences of "over a million pounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost 100 new companies had been formed , and Schach had been able to secure over a million pounds in bank guarantees to finance not only such expensive disasters as Dreaming Lips , Love from a Stranger and The Marriage of Gorbal , but even films that were never made . |
| 2 | The Tabernacle cost £31,383 , over a million pounds today . |
| 3 | England 's best known bridge was built across the Thames in 1888–94 , and cost over a million pounds . |
| 4 | You no doubt heard about the raid on a Venezuelan freighter outside Amsterdam a couple of years ago when a gang impersonating the harbour police impounded over a million pounds worth of acapulco gold ? ’ |
| 5 | literally thousands and the expenditure had , had gone up to well over a million pounds . |
| 6 | The company decided to put all it 's litigation work , worth over a million pounds a year , out to tender . |
| 7 | Determined to break up what it sees as a cosy cartel , it has already spent over a million pounds on marketing and corporate entertainment . |
| 8 | To replace them , for example , would cost something over a million pounds , but this is actually a repair to those er culverts the . |
| 9 | I would suggest even that since there is a surplus in C P D , of over a million pounds , that er , they are perfectly capable of funding their own studies . |
| 10 | That is over a million pounds right in that budget for committee administration and you ask me where we can save fifty thousand pounds , well start producing a few less reports . |
| 11 | The naturalist Sir David Attenborough has lent his support to a campaign to raise over a million pounds to help one of the biggest collections of musical instruments in the world . |
| 12 | United 's goals have dried up though … and they could do with a man like Southend 's Stan Collymore who hit the winner 12 minutes from time … he 's worth over a million pounds … and left Oxford penniless on saturday … |
| 13 | Over a million pounds worth of water filtration kit , vital in the North African Desert , but being delivered ast a critical time in relations with the Libyan Government … but that 's not going to stop them . |
| 14 | Over a million pounds of damage was caused by the fire , but no one was ever caught . |
| 15 | But there were almost nine hundred malicious calls , which cost the brigade over a million pounds to turn out to . |
| 16 | It 's hoped the building and ten acres of land could fetch over a million pounds so the creditors can be paid off . |
| 17 | It 's hoped the building and ten acres of land could fetch over a million pounds so the creditors can be paid off . |