Example sentences of "is [verb] [verb] [adj] million " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year turnover was 4.4 million while this year 's figure is expected to exceed 6 million . |
| 2 | The £156-a-year cap on losses is expected to help 6 million people in the first year of the poll tax . |
| 3 | The 600-megawatt Rotterdam station , due to begin operation in the mid-1990's , is expected to discharge 75 million tons of CO2 over its 25 year lifetime . |
| 4 | Iraqi engineers claim that the Third River is designed to reclaim 1.5 million square kilometres of salt-encrusted fields , which could increase Iraq 's crop production by 50 per cent . |
| 5 | We know that the actual reorganization is going to cost thirty million I would have thought that every possible drainage problem could ever West Sussex could easily be rectified with thirty million pounds and we could all name a project er on which we would like to spend thirty million pounds . |
| 6 | Since unemployment started rising nationally in March 1990 , 997,500 people have joined the dole queue and that figure is set to pass one million next month , when a General Election could be weeks away . |
| 7 | A second park , the theme of which Disney has not yet decided , is projected to welcome eight million in its first year ( 1996 ) . |
| 8 | This measure is projected to raise 375 million francs a year . |
| 9 | A grass-roots initiative supported by dozens of prominent writers , actors and politicians is trying to collect one million signatures urging more liberal citizenship laws . |
| 10 | The council is planning to spend ten million pounds more than government guidelines next year . |