Example sentences of "[art] million or " in BNC.
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| 1 | A popular health-service argument was that every one of the million or so staff should get exactly the same percentage increase in pay — as though the recruitment and retention position was the same for all . |
| 2 | Intel told the Wall Streeter it was expecting to deliver Pentiums in the low hundreds of thousands this year , not the million or more anticipated . |
| 3 | Intel said it was expecting to deliver Pentiums in the low hundreds of thousands this year , not the million or more anticipated . |
| 4 | Public health doctors are more likely to influence public health if they collaborate with the million or so people employed in the health service . |
| 5 | By the early 1980s only a few thousand of the million or so who lived elsewhere in the USSR had been able to return , despite an active campaign on their behalf by dissidents as well as Tatar activists . |
| 6 | Few of the million or so visitors who take advantage of the Garden as a public amenity each year are aware of the scientific heritage behind the Garden , or indeed of the high level of scientific work which goes on behind the scenes today . |
| 7 | Perhaps by then the Government may have some strategy that will provide work for the million or so unemployed that it overlooks while compiling the official figures . |
| 8 | When Tiananmen finally broke their reserve , a million or more , a fifth of the population , turned out for the biggest of several demonstrations in sympathy with the Peking students . |
| 9 | For a place with a population of half a million or so it is a handy size . |
| 10 | In each case the consequences of moving a million or more people , in the case of Tanzania , at least five million , were hardly recognized before the operations began . |
| 11 | There may be a million or so people in the land who have the capacity to turn their hands to anything that 's going without feeling frustrated , or rebellious , or losing self-respect . |
| 12 | Perhaps a million or more Americans now make their own brew , which is tax-free for the first 200 gallons a year . |
| 13 | While only Superman or Wonderwoman could have detected the gap between crease and outstretched bat as the bails were dislodged , the all-important fact is that a million or two television viewers on that Australia Day were shown the truth on the slow-motion replay . |
| 14 | Who they were , and whether the party 's appeal should be confined to the quarter of a million or so who might be described as ‘ proletariat ’ was something that had yet to be defined . |
| 15 | The magazine may have a circulation of half a million or more . |
| 16 | A number of his friends had been affected in a similar way ; one or two had , in their terms , been wiped out — left with a million or less . |
| 17 | Then thinking , What if fresh relics should chance to get a million or so volts up them ? |
| 18 | A further phase of New Town designation ensued , with designations for substantially increased target population figures to a quarter of a million or more . |
| 19 | If ever you 're needing a million or anything like that , write to me and I 'll give you it . |
| 20 | Some of these are already apparent following Britain 's entry into the ERM : the stoking up of inflation in the mid-1980s and the creation in the 1990s of a million or so extra unemployed , together with thousands of bankruptcies , can properly be ascribed in the main to priority having been given to a managed exchange rate . |
| 21 | And that 's the furnace that creates the steam and the steam goes then to the turbines and a matter of half a million er Drax Drax power station and Ferrybridge their units are s s s half a million horsepower half a million or six hundred five hundred million horsepower . |
| 22 | In 1974 real output was 5.02 million b/d , a million or so up on 1972 . |
| 23 | It was home to a million or so settlers of European origin , the so-called " pieds noirs " . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm going to offer a programme that 's going to create half a million or more jobs in the short run , that is highly progressive , that is very well balanced , that is faithful to the great middle class of this country and good for the things that we care about , jobs and health care , ’ he said of his economic plan . |
| 25 | Now we produce erm about half a million or 550,000 units a year , that is not volume in world terms er we acknowledge that we compete in some of the volume sectors , but increasingly as our new products are introduced , we 're very careful to put them in discrete market segments or in niches . |