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Synonym: 1000000, billion, jillion, meg, one thousand thousand, trillion, zillion. Similar words: billion, fill in, brilliant, fulfilling, willingness, portfolio, mild, family. Meaning: ['mɪlɪən]

n. 1. the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros 2. a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole). adj. (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units.

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31. The total sales of the company didn't amount to more than a few million dollars.

32. Universal have agreed to pay ￡2.5 million for Grisham's next, as yet unwritten, novel.

33. The earthquake caused damage to property estimated at $6 million.

34. Cancer deaths caused by fallout from weapons testing could rise to 2.4 million over the next few centuries.

35. A half million people watched the troops march in New York's ticker tape parade.

36. The trust, which has 2.3 million members, has been characterised as a sleeping giant of the environment movement.

37. On current projections, there will be more than ten million people 65 or over in 2010.

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38. The company has just announced its ￡27 million purchase of Park Hotel.

39. At the peak of its popularity in the late nineties, the band sold ten million albums a year.

40. What would you do if you won a million pounds?

41. An extra ￡10 million in foreign aid has been promised.

42. It's going to cost $4 million to equip the hospital.

43. The cost of the damage caused by the recent storms has been calculated as/at over £5 million.

44. The film has taken ￡180 million at the box office.

45. More than six million youngsters tune in to Blockbusters every day.

46. The new shopping centre was constructed at a cost of 1.1 million.

47. Theoretically he had control over more than $400 million in US accounts. But, in fact, it was the US Treasury and State Department who controlled those accounts.

48. The production of the film cost twenty million US dollars.

49. Half a million people held a mass protest against racism last night.

50. Oil deliveries will fall 2.5 million tonnes short of demand this year.

51. The aim is to cut running costs by ￡90 million per year.

52. There are approximately 12 million migrants with their dependants living in the EU countries.

53. I was making a million a year, but that's chicken feed in the pop business.

54. She sold her share of the company for a reputed ￡7 million.

55. There were about 300 million tons of grain in the fields at the start of the harvest.

56. The annual cost of income support to unmarried mothers amounted to £700 million in that year.

57. Up to five million people a year visit the county.

58. A conservative estimate puts annual sales at around $100 million.

59. The bank has a share capital of almost 100 million dollars.

60. She got eight million dollars for appearing in that film.

31. The aim is to cut running costs by ￡90 million per year.

32. There are approximately 12 million migrants with their dependants living in the EU countries.

33. I was making a million a year, but that's chicken feed in the pop business.

34. She sold her share of the company for a reputed ￡7 million.

35. Up to five million people a year visit the county.

36. She got eight million dollars for appearing in that film.

37. His books have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.

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38. The company lost $7 million this quarter in contrast to a profit of $6.2 million a year earlier.

39. By 1960 the arms industry in America directly employed 3.5 million people.

40. The purchase price figures out at about two million dollars.

41. The population of this city is in the neighbourhood of three million.

42. The report reveals the company made a loss of ￡20 million last year.

43. An anonymous businesswoman donated one million dollars to the charity.

44. The chances are a million to one against being struck by lightning.

45. Open-sea fish lay several million eggs each breeding season .

46. The loss of income for the government is about $250 million a month.

47. In 1986 more than three million were receiving unemployment benefit.

48. Drugs have been seized with a street value of two million dollars.

49. They originally asked for $5 million, but finally settled for a lesser sum.

50. Box office receipts for the film have hit $50 million.

51. The country is running a balance-of-payments/budget/trade deficit of $250 million.

52. The government yesterday announced to the media plans to create a million new jobs.

53. The population has increased from 1.2 million to 1.8 million.

54. They've upped the ante by making a $120 million bid to buy the company.

55. For a man who held that to take even an ant's life is evil , the offering of a million lives gives one pause.

56. What they owe to the Inland Revenue is small fry compared to the overall ￡1.2 million debt.

57. Of the four million people who have become vegetarians in Britain, nearly two-thirds are women.

58. 1.4 million council homes have been sold, mostly to sitting tenants.

59. His yearly payroll is $ 1.2 million.

60. Jimmy looks like a million dollars.

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