Example sentences of "[prep] a million " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |
| 2 | A third of a million Frenchmen died in the first five months … |
| 3 | What is there in this to evoke the shades of a third of a million dead Frenchmen ? |
| 4 | ‘ This will mean a miserable winter for house owners but a disastrous one for a quarter of a million working people . |
| 5 | Top of the Red Rose bill was Gerry Sadowitz , a comedian who , if he played Leeds Town Centre , could expect , at £100 per F-word , to lose close to quarter of a million in the course of a routine . |
| 6 | SOME 10 per cent of the goods bought at Sainsbury 's stores is now paid for by Switch debit card , accounting for a quarter of a million shoppers . |
| 7 | After twenty years of trading in the volost' and in Kursk town he came to own by 1914 eight houses ( four of them in Kursk ) and had a turnover of a million roubles . |
| 8 | At the end of the Civil War roughly one-quarter of a million roved around the Ukraine , a region that had suffered greatly from the hostilities . |
| 9 | Despite the huge number of potential customers ( just short of a million ) and the fact that all copies of Gudok were delivered free on the railways , the circulation was a paltry 30,000 in June . |
| 10 | By late 1989 the labour force in the Welsh pits , once a quarter of a million men in those proud valleys , had fallen to less than 5,000 . |
| 11 | It is n't rare for a quarter of a million pounds to be spent on an act in one year . |
| 12 | That light came originally from the same source as Fenna 's fire , from the heart of the golden star , from the sun itself — but it was light crashing around space at speeds which defy relativity , rolling like waves , bouncing like particles , rebounding off the dead desert of the cold moon and hurled thence , down through nearly a quarter of a million miles , forced through the steadily slowly moving liquid molecules of solid glass which made the windows . |
| 13 | Through their sponsorship of cricket , Cornhill , until recently a little-known City insurance company , turned themselves into a household name at the cost of a million pounds over five years . |
| 14 | It is estimated that the worm population in the average herbaceous garden is about a quarter of a million per hectare , which is roughly a hundred thousand per acre . |
| 15 | Every year , over a quarter of a million children under the age of 3 contract polio . |
| 16 | It had been previously owned by Maurice Macmillan MP , son of the late Conservative Prime Minister Lord Stockton , and the Duchy paid over three-quarters of a million pounds for the property . |
| 17 | Where it 's at : Leeds is the third largest city in England , with a population of around three quarters of a million . |
| 18 | ‘ The result would be that the NHS management would be responsible for the pay and conditions of a million people , but actually arbitrators would dispose of the resources . ’ |
| 19 | It was very late — after closing time , about 3am , and they came right out with it : ‘ How would you fancy having a quarter of a million quid ? ’ |
| 20 | One city of a million people , Ufa , 700 miles east of Moscow , was described in Pravda in 1987 as having become unfit for human habitation . |
| 21 | Close to a quarter of a million small cetaceans were killed between 1976 and 1987 in Japan . |
| 22 | By the mid 1930s , up to a quarter of a million dolphins were being killed each year by Turkish , Bulgarian , Romanian , and Russian hunters . |
| 23 | The vessel was carrying one million litres ( more than a quarter of a million US gallons ) of oil , diesel , jet fuel , and compressed gas . |
| 24 | At a press conference on May 6th , after the scale of the disaster had become apparent , he understated the radioactivity near the reactor by a factor of a million . |
| 25 | An imitation book with curled up corners and antique dust ‘ is in the worst possible taste , ’ he confirms , ‘ but we sold a quarter of a million last year . ’ |
| 26 | Barbados , which even now has little more than a quarter of a million people , has led the way with a roll of honour of mind-boggling proportions . |
| 27 | The European zone , for example , was growing twice as fast as the United States ' zone , and now employed a quarter of a million people . |
| 28 | A hundred and thirty thousand London homes destroyed , so the precise number of homeless is now estimated to be around only a quarter of a million . ’ |
| 29 | I was pleased to see that , after its own trials , Bridgemere Nurseries in Cheshire , one of the biggest and best garden centres for plants in the country , has grown a quarter of a million herbaceous plants in coir compost . |
| 30 | In effect the equivalent of a million pounds-worth of fees went unused . |