Example sentences of "million and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside these limits , Birmingham is exceptional in having a population of about 1 million and a few districts have populations below 200,000 . |
| 2 | The Germans killed six million and a few years later we invited them to be our guests over here ? |
| 3 | Brazil has been boosted both by David Byrne , whose new Latin big band made such an impression here last week , and the dance hit , Lambada , by Kaoma , which sold over a million and a half copies in France and became the best-selling European single of the year . |
| 4 | A retired Ministry of Defence official has gone on trial accused of accepting a million and a half pounds in bribes to award arms contracts abroad . |
| 5 | So do the million and a half termites living in the colony . |
| 6 | Group testing received its first big boost when the US entered World War 1 in 1917 to provide for the rapid classification of a million and a half recruits who needed to be assigned to suitable roles in the military machine . |
| 7 | More than a million and a half children — one in eight — live in these one-parent families . |
| 8 | If it 's a million , if it 's a million and a half dollars it 's er three quarters of a million pounds |
| 9 | More than a million and a half Palestinians live in the occupied territories , their treatment prompted repeated accusations by western governments as well as those in the Middle East , that Israel 's crackdown has been too harsh , at times undisciplined ; one image of violence by Israeli forces aroused world-wide condemnation . |
| 10 | Over a million and a half barrels of herring a year had been exported to Russia prior to the embargo . |