Example sentences of "[adj] a million pounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last season 's champion , Marc Girardelli , having switched skis for a reported half a million pounds , was fourth , Alberto Tomba , Italy 's Olympic sensation , fifth . |
| 2 | Geoffrey Beattie hears of businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags and learns the difference between a mobster and a muppet . |
| 3 | It might have been the stories about businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags . |
| 4 | But in his eagerness to demonstrate how wonderful the scheme was , he let drop the fact that in the event of his death Karen would inherit not only the house , fully paid-off under the terms of their endowment mortgage , but also a lump sum amounting to almost half a million pounds . |
| 5 | Actress Jeananne Crowley on Carlton Television boss Michael Green I CHEERED like mad when a couple of papers got clobbered with damages of half a million pounds . |
| 6 | This time round , it will earn her more than half a million pounds . |
| 7 | Tynagh Mines ' manager , David Fitzgerald , denied all the allegations and said that the company had spent half a million pounds on safety work and intended spending a further £200,000 . |
| 8 | The following July the EEC again committed further funds amounting to nearly half a million pounds . |
| 9 | DAZZLING : This little beauty is worth half a million pounds … the size of our super jackpot |
| 10 | She could n't hold the challenge of Kostroma in the straight , but second place brought her earnings worldwide to half a million pounds . |
| 11 | Rumours a-rumble of half a million pounds deals being thrust beneath their fringes . |
| 12 | Set up at a cost of half a million pounds contributed by CLD and the consortium , this is seen as a long-term project to introduce CLD staff , clients and other interested parties to open systems . |
| 13 | A sum in the region of a half a million pounds has already been raised or pledged . |
| 14 | In the course of four decades almost half a million pounds were produced for the king by clerical taxation , and in fact its burden was all the more concentrated because of the absence of demands in the 1360s . |
| 15 | ‘ A little over half a million pounds . |
| 16 | One depositor alone , whose deposits exceeded half a million pounds , executed 26 assignments of £20,000 each . |
| 17 | These would undertake so many operations for half a million pounds . |
| 18 | Trinity House is becoming increasingly concerned about vandalism to light buoys and beacons in the Thames Estuary and Channel areas and says that damage to navigation aids cost half a million pounds to repair last year . |
| 19 | Williams died 29 November 1802 in Bath , worth about half a million pounds . |
| 20 | It 's a rare character who commits murder in order to lose half a million pounds . |
| 21 | These are probably in the region of half a million pounds at the moment , which does not bode well for the company which may be trying to raise half a million pounds of equity . |
| 22 | These are probably in the region of half a million pounds at the moment , which does not bode well for the company which may be trying to raise half a million pounds of equity . |
| 23 | The winner is set to be some half a million pounds better off . |
| 24 | Say , half a million pounds . ’ |
| 25 | The two special instrument systems , costing half a million pounds , are to be supplied to the Japanese Atomic Energy Research Institute at Tokai Mura . |
| 26 | Investment in canals and inland waterways peaked at around £1 million per annum in the canal mania of the 1790s , while outlay on the steady expansion and improvement of turnpiked roads averaged half a million pounds between 1760 and 1810 and thereafter doubled to £1 million . |
| 27 | Two Haig Chadwick carding machines worth almost half a million pounds each , along with two H.D.B. spinning frames that will occupy the new building , have already been ordered . |
| 28 | The street price of that little lot , cut down into 40-milligram bags , would be half a million pounds . |
| 29 | Stoke are still demanding half a million pounds with Celtic offering eighty-five thousand . |
| 30 | The stumbling block has been Stoke City 's half a million pounds compensation demand which the Parkhead club have refused to meet . |