1.   At the same time, the government lost millions in interest not earned while taxes, fees, and fines went uncollected.

2.   Companies lose millions of pounds each year from having to write off bad debts.

3.   The building trade alone, which is particularly vulnerable to paramilitary intimidation, loses millions of pounds a year.

4.   The government is losing millions because an airline passenger tax can not be collected.

5.   The patentee almost lost his millions because rivals claimed that he had invented nothing, but merely copied the living world.

6.   This is a classic case of saving pounds while losing millions.

7.   His shops stand to lose millions of pounds.

8.   AN Ulster MP today accused the Dail of deliberately refusing to investigate a firm which lost millions of pounds belonging to Northern Ireland people.

9.   America noted that Ali had lost millions of dollars for his beliefs, the kind of sacrifice that always impresses Americans.

10.   Amazon.com, the virtual book store, brags about losing millions of dollars but at the same time it has sucked the life out of some very real bookstores.