Million in A Sentence

    1

    A dam erected a few miles below that lake, with a storage of nearly io,000 million cub.

    2

    A million dreams unfulfilled.

    3

    A million little diamonds of glass showered the inside of the vehicle as it swerved up the street, spinning a track of rubber.

    4

    A much more moderate tone pervades the writings of the press since restrictions were entirely removed, and although there are now 1 775 journals and periodicals published throughout the empire, with a total annual circulation of some 700 million copies, intemperance of language, such as in former times would, have provoked official interference, is practically unknown to-day.

    5

    A new hospital at a cost of half a million dollars was completed in 1908.

    6

    A puppet nawab was still maintained at Murshidabad, who received an annual allowance of about half a million sterling; and half that amount was paid to the emperor as tribute from Bengal.

    7

    A single female cod liberates, according to its size, from one to five million eggs in a single season.

    8

    A still larger field exists in the upper Silesian basin, on the borderland between Austria and Poland, containing about 50.000 million tons.

    9

    About 60 million cubic meters of dome and crater wall traveled to the south as a debris avalanche and pyroclastic density currents.

    10

    According to telecoms analysts BWCS, 625 million people worldwide will be traveling on wi-fi enabled trains within the next five years.

    11

    According to the estimates of the state department of agriculture, of the total value of all agricultural products in the twenty years 188 51904 ($3, 0 7 8, 999, 8 55), Indian corn and wheat together represented more than two-fifths (821'3 and 518'1 million dollars respectively), and livestock products nearly one-third (1024.9 millions).

    12

    After 1900 production was greatly increased and by 1906 had come to exceed half a million tons annually.

    13

    After local wants are supplied, there remains every year a surplus of about 31 million quarters of cereals for export.

    14

    After much bargaining, the famine-stricken citizens agreed to pay a ransom of more than a quarter of a million sterling, besides precious garments of silk and leather and three thousand pounds of pepper.

    15

    After paying out of the capital the sums required for the indemnities due for the burning of Alexandria and the deficits of the years 1882 and 1883, it still had a million sterling, and boldly invested it in the improvement of irrigation.

    16

    After that date the B&bis divided into two sects, Ezelis and Baha'is, of which the former steadily lost and the latter gained ground, so that in 1908 there were probably from half a million to a million of the latter, and at most only a hundred or two of the former.

    17

    Against the five and a half million votes recorded for Louis Napoleon, Cavaignac received only a million and a half.

    18

    Altogether nearly 16 million acres of Russian Poland, or almost one-half of the total area, are under crops, principally rye, oats, wheat, barley, potatoes and hay, with some flax, hemp, peas, buckwheat and hops.

    19

    Ammonia is also present, but in very varying amounts, ranging from 135 to 0 I parts (calculated as carbonate) in a million parts of air.

    20

    Amphibians were the first group of vertebrates to successfully conquer land almost 400 million years ago.

    21

    An application to the hyperbolic logarithm of is given by Burckhardt in the introduction to his Table des diviseurs for the second million.

    22

    And she abhors the false prophets who abound and considers the million dollar reward offered a direct invasion of her privacy.

    23

    Andrew blackman monte carlo has one of whom to million almost.

    24

    Apart from these, however, and some 150,000 communicants in its foreign missions, British and American " Congregationalism " reckons more than a million and a quarter church members; while, including those known as Baptists (q.v.), the total amounts to several millions more.

    25

    Artichokes and tomato sauce are the principal of these products, of which several dozen million tins are annually exported from Sicily to the Italian mainland, to Germany and to South America.

    26

    As a consequence, the extent of land devoted to wheat in the British Isles receded in 1895 to less than i 2 million acres.

    27

    As for himself he cared little for the life of a million of men.

    28

    As the total annual export of oats is now less than three million bushels the home consumption is large, and this is an advantage in maintaining the fertility of the soil.

    29

    At present the average vintage of the Cape and of Australia is in each case roughly 5 to 6 million gallons.

    30

    At the beginning of the 19th century there were only natural oyster beds in the basin, and these produced 75 million oysters per annum.

    31

    At the beginning of the period the aggregate area under wheat, barley and oats was nearly 102 million acres; at the close it did not amount to 8 million acres.

    32

    At the close of business on 8 December 2004, Admiral had a market capitalization of £ 822.33 million.

    33

    At the present day, wine is produced in no less than 77 departments in France, the average total yield during the past ten years being roughly 1000 million gallons.

    34

    At the same time arrangements were made between Austria and Hungary to pay off about 80 million of exchequer bills which had been issued on the security of the government salt-works, and were therefore called " salinenscheine."

    35

    At the time of the divorce, the parties had amassed net assets valued in the region of £ 75 million.

    36

    Beetroot (6-8 million tons annually) for sugar is especially cultivated in Poland, the governments of Kiev, Podolia, Volhynia, Kharkov, Bessarabia and Kherson.

    37

    Before he departed, the French government undertook to pay the outstanding subsidies to Sweden unconditionally, at the rate of one and a half million livres annually; and the comte de Vergennes, one of the great names of French diplomacy, was transferred from Constantinople to Stockholm.

    38

    Before the adoption of the McKinley tariff about nine million bushels of barley were exported annually, involving the loss of immense stores of plant food.

    39

    Before the war the Czechoslovak traffic on the Elbe totalled some 4 million tons annually.

    40

    Before the World War about i 2 million skins were obtained annually at a cost of 6 to 8 roubles each.

    41

    Besides these matters which concerned Hinduism there was the problem of converting sixty million Mahommedans.

    42

    Besides this, there were probably io million acres under irrigation systems constructed in whole or in part.

    43

    Between 1870 and 1890 over half a million free immigrants entered Siberia from Russia, and of these 80% settled in the government of Tobolsk; and between 1890 and 1905 it is estimated that something like a million and a half free immigrants entered the country.

    44

    Bismarck had to come to an agreement with one party or the other; he chose the Centre, probably for the reason that the National Liberals were themselves divided on the policy to be pursued, and therefore their support would be uncertain; and he accepted an amendment, the celebrated Franckenstein Clause, proposed by Georg Arbogast Freiherr von Franckenstein (1825-1890), one of the leaders of the Centre, by which all proceeds of custQms and the tax on tobacco above 130 million marks should be paid over to the individual states in proportion to their population.

    45

    Boat-building is an important accompanying industry, and more than half a million tons of salt are shipped annually.

    46

    Britain has a million hard drug addicts for the first time ever.

    47

    Built in 1882, it had by the 12th of September 1891 performed the feat of running a million miles in 9 years 219 days, and it completed two million miles on the 5th of August 1902, having by that date run 5312 trips with express trains between London and Manchester.

    48

    But all these are insignificant in comparison with the mineral oil industry of Baku, which in normal times yields annually between ten and eleven million tons of crude oil (naphtha).

    49

    But half a million of these people being Mahommedans, and refusing to submit to the yoke of Christian Russia, emigrated into Turkish territory List of Peaks in the west central Caucasus, with their altitudes, names and dates of mountaineers who have climbed them.

    50

    But he wasn.t about to walk up and down the stairwell or traipse through the shadow world a million times to accomplish the same goal.

    51

    But the Federal armaments were not on such a scale as to enable the government to cope with a "nation in arms," and the first call for volunteers was followed by more and more, until in the end the Federals had more than a million men under arms. At first the troops on both sides were voluntarily enlisted, but the South quickly, the North later, put in force conscription acts.

    52

    But, in spite of this considerable yield in cereals, Germany cannot cover her home consumption, and imported on the average of the six years 1900 1905 about 41/2 million tons of cereals to supply the deficiency.

    53

    By 1894 the state was able to redeem them to the amount of 200 million gulden, including all those for one gulden.

    54

    By 1910 the general total is considered to have risen to about a million and a half.

    55

    By continual economy he left in the former the immense sum of 70 million thalers; the latter, at the time of his death, numbered 200,000 men, disciplined with all the strictness to which he had throughout life accustomed his troops.

    56

    By January 1863 the Union armies numbered near a million men, and were kept up to this strength till the end of the struggle.

    57

    By the end of March 2000 5.5 million gas consumers and 4 million electricity consumers were no longer with their traditional supplier.

    58

    By the end of the four-month campaign, the White House would receive two million dimes.

    59

    By the promise of loo million dinars to the expropriated Begs, he won over the Moslems of Bosnia, and by similar methods he detached the Slovene section of the newly founded Agricultural party (Zemljoradnici).

    60

    By the second peace of Thorn, Poland recovered the provinces of Pomerelia, Kulm and Michalow, with the bishopric of Ermeland, numerous cities and fortresses, including Marien 18,000 of their 21,000 villages were destroyed, moo churches were razed to the ground, and the population was diminished by more than a quarter of a million.

    61

    By the treaty of Prague (August 23, 1866) the emperor surrendered the position in Germany which his ancestors had held for so many centuries; Austria and Tirol, Bohemia and Salzburg, ceased to be German, and eight million Germans were cut off from all political union with their fellow-countrymen.

    62

    By this Hamburg was to enter the Zoilverein; a part of the harbour was to remain a free port, and the empire contributed two million pounds towards rearranging and enlarging the harbour.

    63

    By this pactur subjectionis, as the Polish patriots called it, Russia got all the eastern provinces of Poland, extending from Livonia to Moldavia, comprising a quarter of a million of square miles, while Prussia got Dobrzyn, Kujavia and the greater part of Great Poland, with Thorn and Danzig.

    64

    By this time there was more than a million people in Canada, and the country was becoming important.

    65

    Catholics, like Villeroy and Jeannin, anxious for national unity; but he had to buy over the adherents of the League, who sold him his own kingdom for sixty million.

    66

    Cecilia reyes that could significantly million third season brand licensing the.

    67

    Chlorpromazine is the most commonly prescribed typical antipsychotic with 0.15 million items costing £ 559,000.

    68

    Comparing 1905 with 1875 the increase in permanent grass land amounted to over five million acres, or about 21%.

    69

    Conspicuous among their achievements was the conversion of Mexico, 200,000 converts being enrolled within six years after the capture of the capital (1521), and a million baptized by the Franciscans alone within thirty years.

    70

    Constantine Mavrocordato was in this way hospodar of Walachia at six different times, and paid on one occasion as much as a million lion-dollars (40,000) for the office.

    71

    Copper has been mined here since 1847, and notwithstanding the difficulties of transportation through a rough mountain region, mines were rapidly developed, and in 1855 over 14,000 tons of ore, worth more than a million dollars, were marketed.

    72

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    73

    Dean wondered if Jeff was not the saint she thought, not deceased, instead bopping along somewhere west of Kansas, with several million bucks in his pocket.

    74

    During the 20th Century production of man-made cellulosics steadily increased to reach a peak of 3.5 million tons in 1970.

    75

    During the decade of 1898 to 1908 the consumption has gone on steadily from about 10 million lb in the first five years to an average of 15 million lb in the second half of the decade.

    76

    During the first two years the bank remitted the greater part of its capital to Persia at the then prevailing exchange, and received for every pound sterling 32 t0 34 krans; but in consequence of the great fall in silver in I893 and 1894, the exchange rose to 50 krans per pound sterling and more, and the banks capital employed in Persia being reduced in value by more than one-thirdIO0 krans, which at the beginning represented 3 then being worth only 2 or lessthe original capital of one million sterling was reduced to 650,000 in December 1894.

    77

    During the period1891-1905the total production of Germany has averaged roughly 62 million gallons, attaining a maximum of III million gallons in 1896 and a minimum of 16 million gallons in 1891.

    78

    Easy enough to be a saint with a couple of million bucks in your back pocket.

    79

    Events had shown that, even after losing half a million of men in Russia, he was a match for her and Prussia combined.

    80

    Every twelfth year there is a special occasion called the Kumbh-mela, which is attended by a million of devotees at one time.

    81

    Evidence is still lacking as to whether the 20 to 30 million fry annually added from the hatchery have appreciably increased the quantities of young plaice on the surrounding shores.

    82

    Excellent water is supplied to the town from the Pokfolum and Tytam reservoirs, the former containing 68 million gallons, the latter 390 millions.

    83

    Except !in India, where it is controlled by the government, In 1878 seventeen lecture-rooms of the Azhar had 3707 students, of whom only 64 came from Constantinople and the northern parts of the Ottoman Empire, 8 from North Arabia, I from the government of Bagdad, 12 from Kurdistan, and 7 from India with its thirty million Sunnites.

    84

    Excluding salmon, nearly one million hundredweights of fish were taken, and including shell-fish the total money received by the fishermen exceeded £414,000.

    85

    Finally, it is estimated by the census commissioners that in the famine of 1901 three million people died in the native states and only one million in British territory.

    86

    Fixed index annuity ape sales of £ 13 million were down 7 per cent on the same period of 2005.

    87

    For example, the Appalachian coal deposits formed about 300 million years ago in a low-lying basin that was alternately flooded and drained.

    88

    For his personal use, however, he retained but a very small fraction of the sums thus acquired, and at his death his private fortune amounted to scarce a million florins.

    89

    For one kind of meat we could substitute another; wool could be replaced by cotton, silk or fur; were our common silicate glass gone, we could probably perfect and cheapen some other of the transparent solids; but even if the earth could be made to yield any substitute for the forty or fifty million tons of iron which we use each year for rails, wire, machinery, and structural purposes of many kinds, we could not replace either the steel of our cutting tools or the iron of our magnets, the basis of all commercial electricity.

    90

    For such standards a relative accuracy of at least one part in a million seems now to be attainable.

    91

    For the fourth quarter of 2001, SG&A expenses included $ 5.5 million of restructuring charges and $ 2.5 million of goodwill amortization.

    92

    Forests cover nearly r z million acres, yielding valuable timber (teak, sandalwood, &c.), and affording grazing-ground for cattle.

    93

    France comes a good second in importance with a consumption of 9 to 10 million lb annually.

    94

    From 1840 to 1860 there came more than four million.

    95

    From 1871 to 1879 the contribution of the states had varied from 94 to 67 million marks; under the new system the surplus of the contributions made by the states over the grant by the imperial treasury was soon reduced to a very small sum, and in 1884-1885 the payments of the empire to the states exceeded the contributions of the states to the empire by 20 million marks, and this excess continued for many years; so that there was, as it were, an actual grant in relief of direct taxation.

    96

    From 1894 to 1902 the aggregate production increased from 20.2 to 35.1 million dollars; in 1905 it was $43,406,258.

    97

    Germany follows France with a consumption for the various fabrics of over six million lb annually.

    98

    Globally, over 48 million full cargo containers move between major seaports each year.

    99

    Going back to 1869, it is found that the extent of wheat in that year was 3,981,989 acres or very little short of four million acres.

    100

    Griffenfeldt married Kitty Nansen, the granddaughter of the great Burgomaster Hans Nansen, who brought him half a million rix-dollars.

    101

    Had not the phylloxera devastated the vineyards during the last decade of the 19th century, the production would be considerably higher; 7,700,000 gallons of olive oil and 2500 million oranges and lemons are also produced, besides the other minor products above referred to.

    102

    He can go anywhere in the world in six days, especially if he has a couple of a million dollars.

    103

    He is the only commercial beekeeper in Derby, selling the by-products of his 40 colonies of two million bees directly to the public.

    104

    He returned to Paris in declining health, and did not long survive the unhealthy sojourn on the Bidassoa; after some political instruction to his young master he passed away at Vincennes on the 9th of March 1661, leaving a fortune estimated at from 18 to 40 million livres behind him, and his nieces married into the greatest families of France and Italy.

    105

    He then proceeded to float a company, and in 1807 the first public street gas lighting took place in Pall Mall, whilst in 1809 he applied to parliament to incorporate the National Heat and Light Company with a capital of half a million sterling.

    106

    He'd had a million chances to harm her while she lay unconscious and vulnerable on the operating table and never did.

    107

    He'd talked Rhyn off the ledge a million times then defied past-Death to protect Katie.

    108

    Here the Bedouins (mostly Beni Hassa) pasture flocks and herds, amounting to several million head.

    109

    Here the percentage is over 50, but the ore, though the richest found in the kingdom, is less plentiful, about 1.1 million tons being raised in 1903 as against more than 52 millions in Cleveland.

    110

    Here the Roman missions are very extensive, and have over a million adherents, despite violent persecution before the French occupation.

    111

    His fortune was found to amount to a million and a half of talers, and was sequestered but afterwards restored to his family.

    112

    His programme was to be an honourable mediator in the German-Bohemian quarrel, to extend the railway system, and to satisfy the wishes of the Poles in the waterways question by an expenditure of 73.4 million kronen on canal construction in Galicia, to which Galicia was to contribute only 9.4 million kronen, the State finding the other 64, and by an expenditure of 125 millions on river improvements, 99 of which would be contributed by the State.

    113

    How could a man with four million in the bank be in financial danger?

    114

    However, in November 1907, when the national assembly or council demanded a budget and made inquiries as to the financial position, it was found that the expenditure foz some years past had been half a million sterling per annum in excess of the receipts and that considerable sums were owing to banks and commercial firms who had lent money.

    115

    However, they look benign compared with levels of more than three million in the mid-1980s.

    116

    Hundreds of thousands were slaughtered; hundreds of thousands set marching for Syria and Mesopotamia perished on the way by hardship, disease, starvation; those who escaped became fugitives; from first to last at least three-quarters of a million Armenians perished in Asia Minor in a population of less than two millions.

    117

    Hwang Ho = Yellow river, Missouri = Big Muddy, the Red river, &c. It has been estimated that the Mississippi annually carries 4064 million tons of sediment to the sea; the Hwang Ho 796 million tons; the Po 67 million tons.

    118

    I might have a stroke or a million other things.

    119

    I was sixteen and pregnant and my mother tossed me out of the house and then I was a street smart seventeen year old mother without a pot to piss in and no options to get one then if I screw this guy I can maybe get a million dollars and feed my baby and not listen to gun shots outside my door and I been standing here at the window a long, long time, begging for a ticket to fly out of here and no one has handed me anything but shit and now this guy is holding this first class pass and all I have to do is reach out and grab it but I know I might hate myself for tacking it because this ticket clerk is kind of a jerk sometimes but an okay guy most of the time and he's nice to me and he listens to me, and he loves me and I know if I take it and fly it will kill him.

    120

    If I had a couple of million bucks, I'd be staying in the swellest place I could find.

    121

    If my mother knew, she'd drop to her knees and say a million Hail Mary's in thanks!

    122

    If this estimate is correct there exists dissolved in the ocean a quantity of silver equal to T3,300 million metric tons, that is to say 46,700 times as much silver as has been produced from all the mines in the world from the discovery of America down to 1902.

    123

    Immortals only get one their whole lives, even if they live for a million years.

    124

    In 1581 there were 200 churches and 150,000 Christians; ten years later the converts numbered 600,000, in 1594 a million and a half.

    125

    In 1678 Charles, taking advantage of the growing hostility to France in the nation and parliament, raised his price, and Danby by his directions demanded through Ralph Montagu (afterwards duke of Montagu) six million livres a year (30o,000) for three years.

    126

    In 1833 and 1834 the amount annually obtained had risen to fully a million of dollars.

    127

    In 1840 this had grown to 241,000 tons, in 1845 to 475, 000 tons and in 1865 to 1,164,000 tons, almost the height of its prosperity, for in 1905 the product of 101 blast furnaces only amounted to 1,375,125 tons, and in the interval there were years when the output was below one million tons.

    128

    In 1870 Mr Ravenstein reckoned the total number of Roman Catholics in England as slightly under a million, of whom about 750,000 were Irish, and 50,000 foreigners.

    129

    In 1888 the revenue for the first time exceeded a million, the figures for that year being, revenue £1,130,614, expenditure £781,326; in1898-1899the figures were £2,081,349 and £1,914,725.

    130

    In 1891 nearly two million pilgrims viewed the coat, and eleven miraculous cures were claimed.

    131

    In 1895 almost a million persons (half of them women) were employed in this branch of industry, and in 1897 the value of the cloth, buckskin and flannel manufacture was estimated at 18,000,000.

    132

    In 1899 the remainder of the Staatsnoten (112 million gulden) were redeemed in a similar manner.

    133

    In 1900 over one million tons of rice were shipped to India during the famine there.

    134

    In 1900 the woodland was estimated by the United States census at 22% of the state's area, and the total stand at 200,000 million ft.

    135

    In 1901 the total production of wheat in Canada was 552 million bushels.

    136

    In 1902 there were 23,098 boats, manned by 101,720 men, and the total catch was valued at just over half a million sterlingaccording to the government figures, which are certainly below the truth.

    137

    In 1903, the traffic of the port amounted to over one million tons.

    138

    In 1904, 33 million fry were planted in Sondelefjord and young fish were exceptionally abundant in the following autumn (three times as abundant as in 1903 when no fry were planted).

    139

    In 1905 there were thirty-six jute mills in the province and 2± million acres were cropped.

    140

    In 1906 the estimated total production was 136 million bushels.

    141

    In 1906 the light railways carried nearly a million tons of goods and over 6,800,000 passengers.

    142

    In 1907, with an annual production of nearly fifty million bushels, only a trifling percentage was exported, the rest being fed at home and exported in the form of produce without loss from impoverishment of the soil.

    143

    In 1908 Florida produced 1,673,651 tons of phosphate valued at 11 million dollars.

    144

    In 1908 the total length of railways open in India was 30,578, m., which carried 330 million passengers and 64 million tons of goods, and yielded a net profit exceeding 4 Facilities for irrigation (q.v.) vary widely, and irrigation works differ both in extent and in character.

    145

    In 1913 there was a further increase of about a million and a quarter.

    146

    In 1913 there were 5,140 industrial establishments in Lithuania with 33,000 workmen and a yearly productive value of 62 million Russian (gold) rubles.

    147

    In 1919 Czechoslovak exports to Great Britain (exclusive of colonies) amounted to a value of 238 million crowns, imports to 328 millions.

    148

    In 1919 the republic exported merchandise to the extent of 566 million tons and imported 183 millions.

    149

    In 1920 these figures rose to 690 and 200 million tons respectively.

    150

    In 1989 world fish production (including aquaculture) reached 100.3 million tons.

    151

    In 2001 children who have disability in mainstream classrooms represented 2.37 per cent of the total student population of just over four million.

    152

    In a few years he had incurred a debt of 56 million francs, a burden assumed by the impoverished state.

    153

    In a show were over 2 million people voted, the pressure is really on for the remaining contestants.

    154

    In addition a one-off contribution of £ 14.4 million was paid into the scheme in December 2004.

    155

    In August he joined with Spain and Holland in a manifesto against France, while secretly for a million livres he engaged himself to Louis, and in 1682 he proposed himself as arbitrator with the intention of treacherously handing over Luxemburg to France, an offer which was rejected owing to Spanish suspicions of collusion.

    156

    In Bengal the area varies from 36 to 40 million acres according to the season.

    157

    In Brazil alone it is stated that the rubber area amounts to at least one million sq.

    158

    In four years, from 1845 to 1849, its population decreased from 8,295,000 to 7,256,000, or by more than a million persons; and the decline which took place at that time went on to the end of the century.

    159

    In Gujarat half of its 12 million cattle perished in spite of the utmost efforts to obtain fodder.

    160

    In its picturesque desolation, contrasting so strongly with its prosperity in Roman times, immediately surrounding a city of over half a million inhabitants, and with lofty mountains in view from all parts of it, it is one of the most interesting districts in the world, and has a peculiar and indefinable charm.

    161

    In June 1904, under the terms of an agreement with the American Secretary of War, Panama adopted the gold standard with the balboa, equivalent to an American gold dollar, as the unit; and promised to keep in a bank in the United States a deposit of American money equal to 15% of its issue of fractional silver currency, which is limited to four and a half million balboas.

    162

    In March 1899 it had from first to last laid out a little more than half a million.

    163

    In one such raid upon the Masulipatam coast they plundered 339 villages, killing or wounding 682 persons, torturing 3600 and carrying off property worth a quarter of a million.

    164

    In order to get an idea of 93,000,000, he must take a million as his unit.

    165

    In other words, water which has a specific gravity of 1 0280 at the surface would at the same temperature have a specific gravity of 1 0450 at 2000 and I 0540 at 3000 fathoms. If the whole mass of water in the ocean were relieved from pressure its volume would expand from 319 million cub.

    166

    In Poland the peasants as a body have, in addition to the land thus assigned to them by the government, bought some 22 million acres since 1863, and of this quantity they purchased no less than 1,600,000 acres, or 64% of the whole, between 1893 and 1905.

    167

    In Prussia, by the Lex Huene, from 1885 to 1895, all that sum paid to Prussia, so far as it exceeded 15 million marks, was handed over to the local authorities in relief of rates.

    168

    In reward of his services he was named by the emperor count of Erivan, and received a million of roubles and a diamondmounted sword.

    169

    In Scotland the date of its introduction is a disputed point, but it seems to have been planted at Dunkeld by the 2nd duke of Athole in 1727, and about thirteen or fourteen years later considerable plantations were made at that place, the commencement of one of the largest planting experiments on record; it is estimated that 14 million larches were planted on the Athole estates between that date and 1826.

    170

    In some cases a pair of animals pro- ‘ duce ten million offspring, and in such a number a large range of congenital variation is possible.

    171

    In that part of the island which is cultivated intensively some too million gallons of wine are annually produced.

    172

    In the "Timber Belt" the forests of long leaf pine have an estimated stand of 21,192 million ft.; and in 1905 the product of sawed lumber was valued at $13,563,815.

    173

    In the account of Lord Macartney's embassy, which crossed the Yellow river in 1792, it was calculated to be 17,520 million cub.

    174

    In the course of a few years this mileage was to be largely increased, Parliament having voted some 6,500 million crowns for further construction and improvements.

    175

    In the decade 1876 to 1886 the average amount was barely 30 million gallons owing to the small yields of the years 1881 to 1885.

    176

    In the early years of the 19th century there were colonies of English planters in many districts of Bengal, and it was calculated that the planters of North Behar alone had a turnover of a million sterling.

    177

    In the first distribution, which took place almost immediately after the law was passed 280,000 families in Walachia and about 127,000 in Moldavia became freeholders, holding nearly 4 million acres or one-third of the cultivated area of the country.

    178

    In the following centuries the Spanish colonists reduced the vicuna from more than a million to just a few thousand.

    179

    In the fourteen years1893-1907about a million and a quarter acres were thus acquired at a cost of somewhat under five millions and a half.

    180

    In the late 50s the government were investing 391 million pounds in the then ailing and loss-making railroad industry.

    181

    In the period 18 751905 the extreme areas returned as " permanent pasture "-a term which, it should be clearly understood, does not include heath or mountain land, of which there are in Great Britain alone about 13 million acres used for grazing-were 23,772,602 acres in 1875, and 28,865,373 acres in 1905.

    182

    In the primary schools, however, which provide vernacular teaching for the masses, there were only 4 million pupils to the 300 millions of India.

    183

    In the same way the Italian production has varied between 583 million gallons (1895) and 793 millions (1901), and the Spanish between 331 million gallons in 1896 and 656 millions in 1892.

    184

    In the same year (1603) one million persons are said to have died of plague in Egypt.

    185

    In the total value of all live stock (5,402,297 head) in 1900 ($65,000,000) the rank of the state was 15th in the Union, and in value of dairy products in 1899 (12.84 million dollars) 12th.

    186

    In the United States alone the annual pecuniary loss in cattle stock occasioned by the ravages of this tick disease was computed in 1907 at one hundred million dollars.

    187

    In the whole hemisphere there were not over ten million souls.

    188

    In the winter of 325-324 Harpalus, the receiver-general of Alexander in Asia, fled to Greece, taking with him 8000 mercenaries, and treasure equivalent to about a million and a quarter sterling.

    189

    In the years 1874 and 1875 the yield exceeded 100 million gallons.

    190

    In thirteen years the board lent out over five millions and a half, and received repayment of nearly two millions of principal as well as over one million in interest at 5%.

    191

    In this way it was possible to increase the war establishment, excluding the Landsturm, by about half a million men without adding to the burden in time of peace.

    192

    In1905-1906there were 23 million acres under wheat in the whole of India, of which 82 million were in the Punjab alone.

    193

    Indeed, 4.5 million homes now have digital TV, compared with 6 million having Internet access vial their home PC.

    194

    India's consumption of tea is computed to average 84 million pounds, of which 52 millions are Indian and the remainder Chinese.

    195

    Instead, the soft clam, Mya arenaria, a Lamellibranch not used by English or Norwegian fishermen, though abundant on their shores, is employed as bait by the fishermen to the extent of 14 million bushels per annum, valued at £120,000.

    196

    Interest The interest charge for the year of £ 4.1 million reflects the reduction in net borrowings through the year.

    197

    International Development Secretary Clare Short in the UK has announced fifteen million pounds in humanitarian aid for the refugee crisis.

    198

    Irrigation protects large tracts against famine, and has immensely increased the wheat output of the Punjab; the Irrigation Commission of 1903 recommended the addition of 62 million acres to the irrigated area of India, and that recommendation is being carried out at an annual cost of 12 millions sterling for twenty years, but at the end of that time the list of works that will return a lucrative interest on capital will be practically exhausted.

    199

    It can, however, be shown that the obliquity cannot vary more than two or three degrees within a million of years of our epoch.

    200

    It contains the great coal-field of Raniganj, first opened in 1874, with an output of more than three million tons.

    201

    It emerges between two cliffs of red breccia, a gravelly rock laid down by floods some 250 million years ago.

    202

    It includes the towns of Monaco (3292), Condamine (6218) and Monte Carlo (3794) The principality at one time included Mentone and Roccabruna, now known as Roquebrune, which towns, however, were ceded to France in 1861 for a sum of four million francs.

    203

    It is already used for coding large monolingual corpora (for example, the British National corpus of 100 million words ).

    204

    It is estimated that each year brits take away more than 22.6 million packets of tea.

    205

    It is estimated that for domestic purposes nearly 150,000,000 tons of wood are consumed every year, while the steamships, railways and factories consume another 20 or 25 million tons.

    206

    It is estimated that upwards of a million daily enter and leave the City alone as the commercial heart of London, and a great proportion of these travel in and out by the suburban railways.

    207

    It is reckoned that there are 2430` "Alps" or mountain pastures in the canton, of which 1474 are in the Oberland, 627 in the Jura, and 280 in the Emme valley; they can maintain 95,478 cows and are of the estimated value of 462 million francs.

    208

    It is reported to have destroyed a million of persons in Africa, but is not stated to have passed into Europe.

    209

    It is well provided with scientific laboratories, botanic garden, and various collections, and possesses a library with nearly a quarter of a million volumes.

    210

    It lies in the Rechna Doab between the Chenab and Ravi rivers in the north-east of the Jhang district, and is designed to include an irrigated area of 21 million acres.

    211

    It may be estimated that between one and two million acres of land in the different countries referred to have been already appropriated for rubber plantations.

    212

    It rose in a time of great political excitement to a total circulation of a quarter of a million, and it sometimes had for successive years 140,000 to 150,000.

    213

    It thus appears that the live stock industry is one of the most important in the state; the value of its product in 1899 exceeded its output of gold and silver, which had then reached its lowest point, by over one million dollars.

    214

    It was a million bucks they were talking about.

    215

    It was designed to command an area of about 22 million acres, and to irrigate annually rather less than half that area.

    216

    It was estimated that the project would furnish water for one million people, beside supplying power for lighting, manufacturing and transportation purposes.

    217

    It was the million dollar question.

    218

    It was the million dollars, wasn't it?

    219

    Its revenues (about which no trustworthy information is available) are subject to great fluctuations, and probably never exceed the value of one million sterling per annum.

    220

    Kirkwall Airport investments celebrated The completion of £ 4.43 million worth of projects was marked on Thursday at Kirkwall Airport.

    221

    Low-carb eating is popular, with around 3 million Britons having counted carb eating is popular, with around 3 million Britons having counted carbs, not calories, to manage their weight.

    222

    Martinez with a instruction apparel publishing the million mark.

    223

    Merthyr Tydfil draws its supply from the lesser Taff, while Cardiff's main supply comes from the Great Taff valley, where, under acts of 1884 and 1894, two reservoirs with a capacity of 668 million gallons have been constructed and a third authorized.

    224

    Mexico provided an airlift of urgently needed supplies, and European countries donated $ 8 million.

    225

    Million to the settlement it would not only river towboat in April Alaskan.

    226

    More than 17 million people nationally suffer with long term chronic illness - and that means about 5,000 in Milton Keynes.

    227

    More than 41 million packets of counterfeit cigarettes were seized in 2004, a rise of 25 per cent over the previous year.

    228

    More than 5 million shipping containers, 2 million rail cars and some 11 million trucks go into the US every year.

    229

    More than half a million has been advanced in loans and of this nothing has been lost.

    230

    More than three million deaths and the ruin of a once bountiful land followed.

    231

    Nearly six million dollars worth were declared null and void because issued without authority of law.

    232

    No, it was over four million.

    233

    Not content with the 67,000 talers a month which he drew as salary for his innumerable offices, he was found when an inquiry was held in the next reign to have abstracted more than five million talers of public money for his private use.

    234

    Now the million dollar offer is off the table.

    235

    Now, although the island still produces every year some 15 million bushels, the supply barely suffices for the consumption of a.

    236

    Obesity was the cause of 18 million days of sickness absence in England in 1998.

    237

    Of beer 13 million hectolitres are brewed annually, of which one million are exported.

    238

    Of half a million vehicles, suddenly the german army lost 150,000.

    239

    Of horned cattle statistical returns show over two million head in the whole country.

    240

    Of recent years (1896-1907) the only vintages which have been deficient as regards quantity are those of 1897, 1898, 1902 and 1903, but even in the most unfavourable of these years (1898) the quantity exceeded 700 million gallons.

    241

    Of the 55 million sheep kept in Russia only about 15 millions belong to the fine merino breed, and these are pastured chiefly on the Black Sea steppes.

    242

    Of the expenditure more than ten million dollars annually went for the public debt, 5.5 to 6 millions for the army and navy, as much more for civil administration (including more than two millions for purely Peninsular services with which the colony was burdened); and on an average probably one million more went for sinecures.

    243

    Of the well-known Notes on the New Testament it is said that more than a million volumes had been issued by 1870.

    244

    Of the whole amount of coal received coastwise at English and Welsh ports (about 132 million tons), London received considerably over one-half (nearly 8 million tons in 1903).

    245

    On all capital stock up to $3,000,000, the rate is one-tenth of 1%; on all amounts between three and five million dollars, the rate is one-twentieth of 1%; and on all above five million dollars, thirty dollars per million, or 3/1000 of 1%.

    246

    On Barbara's death three years later without male offspring, Sigismund (in April 1518) gave his hand to Bona Sforza, a kinswoman of the emperor and granddaughter of the king of Aragon, who came to him with a dowry of 200,000 ducats and the promise of an inheritance from her mother of half a million more which she never got.

    247

    On that occasion, besides private donations, the British received a grant of the three districts of Burdwan, Midnapur and Chittagong, estimated to yield a net revenue of half a million sterling.

    248

    On the 10th of September 1793 he obtained a vote of one hundred million francs for constructing vessels, and from September 1793 to January 1794 reorganized the military harbours of Brest and Cherbourg.

    249

    On the conclusion of peace Saxony lost no territory, but had to pay a war indemnity of ten million thalers, and was compelled to enter the North German Confederation.

    250

    One million people perished.

    251

    Only 3.4 million consumers watch mobile TV broadcasts currently, In-Stat said.

    252

    Or the children's to million players this is a. Ambassador quot he dinner with the compound retene Arnold.

    253

    Order was soon restored, and a fine of twelve million francs imposed on the rioters.

    254

    Other important manufactures (each with a product value in 1905 of more than one million dollars) were cotton-seed oil and cake (in 1900 Kentucky was fifth and in 1905 sixth among the states in the value of cotton-seed oil and cake), cooperage, agricultural implements, boots and shoes, cigars 1 In the census of 1905 statistics for other than factory-made products, such as those of the hand trades, were not included.

    255

    Oudh was given back to the nawab wazir, on condition of his paying half a million sterling towards the expenses of the war.

    256

    Passenger statendam ginger chile flakes a half million for someone who.

    257

    Portugal had to submit to far harsher terms, and could only purchase peace by the cession of territory in Guiana, by a disadvantageous treaty of commerce, and by payment of twenty-five million francs.

    258

    Prior to 1902 the million mark was reached only twice - in 1894 and 1895.

    259

    Production.-The total wine production of the world, which, 'of course, fluctuates considerably from year to year, amounts to roughly 3000 million gallons.

    260

    Quot he said santa Barbara which with a million the gaming sector.

    261

    Rather than permit the government to appropriate the money from the Bank he supplied two million from his own pocket for the arrears of the imperial troops after Waterloo.

    262

    Returns prepared at the beginning of the 10th century showed 21/8 million acres under crops, whereas the figure in 1834 was over 8 million acres.

    263

    Richelieu, however, turned against the Habsburgs young Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, paying him a subsidy of a million livres a year by the treaty of Barwald of the 23rd of January 1631.

    264

    Russia, by a prohibitive tariff on manufactured silks of other countries, has since 1890 developed and fostered a trade which consumes annually about 3 million lb of raw material for its home industry.

    265

    Salt, obtained principally from brine but also as rock-salt, is an important object of industry in Cheshire, the output from that county and Staffordshire exceeding a million tons annually.

    266

    Sargent estimated in 1884 that the stand of short-leaf and long-leaf pines aggregated respectively 21,625 and 26,558 million feet.

    267

    Schools Every week 20 schools are damaged or destroyed by arson at a cost of £ 60 million.

    268

    Scotland is a land of five million and, worldwide, there are over fifty million people who can claim Scottish ancestry.

    269

    Several million limpets-twelve million in Berwickshire alone-are annually used on the east coast of Britain as bait.

    270

    Sheep, which numbered 32,J71,018 in 1878, declined continuously to 27,448,220 in 1882-a loss of over five million head in five years.

    271

    Silver values ran, in the years 1880-1902, from 11.3 to 23.1 million dollars; and the quantities in the same years from 11.6 to 26.3 million ounces.

    272

    Similarly the French production, which was 587 million gallons in 1895, amounted to no less than 1482 millions in 1900.

    273

    Since 1820 over twenty million persons have emigrated from Europe to countries beyond the sea.

    274

    Since 1888, when Altona joined the imperial Zollverein, approximately half a million sterling has been spent upon harbour improvement works.

    275

    Since on the average only two of the young survive in the struggle for existence to take the place of their two parents, there is a selection out of the ten million young, none of which are exactly alike, and the selection is determined in nature by the survival of the congenital variety which is fittest to the conditions of life.

    276

    Since then one-fourth of the peasantry have been enabled to purchase their holdings, more than half a million acres having passed into their possession.

    277

    Sixteen million acres were in 1907 already held in freehold, as against about six million acres rented from the state on permanent leasehold.

    278

    Social services spending has been slashed by £ 4.2 million in this year's draft budget.

    279

    Some are open space includes breakout a million renovation the tournament for.

    280

    Some large cities, notably Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Dresden, Leipzig and Munich, have, however, newspapers with a daily circulation of over 100,000 copies, and in the case of some papers in Berlin a million copies is reached.

    281

    Some of the estimates make the lapse of time since the first glacial epoch more than a million years, while others make it no more than one-third as long.

    282

    Somehow they NCL to station $ 350 million cruise ship in Hawaii have no summer cruise the dramatic coastline.

    283

    Spain had to pay a monthly subsidy of six million francs, and to enforce strict neutrality upon Portugal, this involving war with England.

    284

    Stewart, John Jacob Astor, and other New York men, on the Union Defence Committee, which (from April 22, 1861, to April 30, 1862) co-operated with the municipal government in the raising and equipping of troops, and disbursed more than a million dollars for the relief of New York volunteers and their families.

    285

    Swansea obtains its chief supply from a reservoir of one thousand million gallons constructed in 1898-1906 on the Cray, a tributary of the Usk.

    286

    Taxation has been very erratic. From 1877 to 1893 the total assessment rose steadily from $3,453,946 to $238,722,417; it then fell at least partly owing to the depreciation in and uncertain values of mining property, and from 1894 to 1900 fluctuated between 192.2 and 216.8 million dollars; in 1901 it was raised to $465,874,288, and fluctuated in the years following; the estimated total assessment for 1907 was $365,000,000.

    287

    That's a lot of heat for a lousy two or three million.

    288

    The "squatter's" still occupy eleven million acres, but even these are more closely subdivided than in former days.

    289

    The 9,000,000 was sufficient to pay the Alexandria indemnities, to wipe out the deficits of the preceding years, to give the Egyptian treasury a working balance of LE 500,000 and thereby avoid the creation of a fresh floating debt, and to provide a million for new irrigation works.

    290

    The affair dragged on from 1713 to 1716, when the examination of the Solov'evs' books, and the subsequent application of torture, revealed the fact that the Solov'evs had systematically robbed the Treasury of 675,000 roubles (1 rouble then = 5s.) and had accumulated a fortune of half a million.

    291

    The American commission, presided over by secretary Day in Paris, absolutely refused to admit the Spanish contention that the United States or the new administration in Cuba and the Philippines should be saddled with several hundred million dollars of debts, contracted by the colonial treasuries, and guaranteed by Spain, almost entirely to maintain Spanish rule against the will of the Cubans and Filipinos.

    292

    The amount of traffic which passed the town of Emmerich near the Dutch frontier, both ways, increased from an annual average of about 6 million tons in 1881-85 to over 214 million tons in 1899.

    293

    The annual average oat crop in all Canada is estimated at about 248 million bushels.

    294

    The annual average value maybe put at not quite £2,000,000, machinery and tin-plate being a long way the most important items. There is further a small transit trade through Transcaucasia from Persia to the value of less than half a million sterling annually, and chiefly in carpets, cocoons and silk, wool, rice and boxwood; and further a sea-borne trade between Persia and Caucasian.

    295

    The annual budget for the Service is over £ 3 million.

    296

    The annual catch of the entire sea is valued at an average of one million sterling.

    297

    The annual output of the Gironde during the last few years has been roughly 70 to 100 million gallons.

    298

    The area of yellow pine forests (the stand is estimated at 67,568.5 million ft.), and the lesser one of hardwood, together with considerable softwood, represent lumber-producing possibilities of much economic importance.

    299

    The authorized capital was four millions sterling, but the bank started with a capital of one million, and began its business in Persia in October 1889.

    300

    The average amount of wine made in the four departments for the past three years has been roughly 500 million gallons.

    301

    The average annual production of tobacco is about fifty million pounds from each of the islands of Java and Sumatra.

    302

    The average imports are in the neighbourhood of 120 million gallons, of which rather more than one-half comes from Algeria.

    303

    The average result of the vintage was estimated between 440 and 500 million gallons in 1880 to 1884, and it rose to more than double that amount towards 1890, and amounted in 1898 to 880 million gallons.

    304

    The average yield of Bulgaria and Rumania is probably some 30 to 40 million gallons for each country, but in some years it is much larger.

    305

    The bank balance at 31 December 1999 was £ 3.0 million.

    306

    The bank by its charter had the sole right of issuing notes, but during the war of 1866 the government, in order to raise money, had;itself issued notes (Staatsnoten) to the value of 312 million gulden, thereby violating the charter of the bank.

    307

    The best wine grows in Kakhetia, a district lying north-east and east of Tiflis; this district alone yields nearly 8 million gallons annually.

    308

    The bulk of the population is, however, engaged in agriculture, and the extent of land under cultivation of all kinds is about 62 million acres.

    309

    The canal colonies of the Punjab have turned northern India into one of the great grain-fields of the British empire; and in 1904 India took the first place in supplying wheat to the United Kingdom, sending nearly 252 million cwts.

    310

    The capacity for gas is 12 million cub.

    311

    The cash consideration for this disposal is £ 4.0 million compared to the net book value of £ 0.5 million.

    312

    The chances against yet another coincidence are a hundred million to one, and against yet one more " coincidence " they are the square of a hundred million to one.

    313

    The chief items of export are figs, tobacco, valonia, carpets, raisins and silk, to the value of some three million sterling.

    314

    The Chinese entered Dzungaria in 1758, and there perpetrated an appalling massacre, the victims being estimated at one million.

    315

    The coalmines of the country are capable of producing some 15 million tons of black coal and 24 millions of brown coal (lignite).

    316

    The company put up to $50 million in their pockets just by changing energy supplier.

    317

    The constitution also provides for the establishment of a new county, " whenever one-third of the qualified electors within the area of each section of an old county proposed to be cut off to form a new county shall petition the governor .for the creation of a new county," whereupon the governor " shall order an election within a reasonable time thereafter," and if two-thirds of the voters vote " yes," the General Assembly at the next session shall establish the new county, provided that no section of a county shall be cut off without the consent of two-thirds of those voting in such section; that no new county " shall contain less than one one hundred and twenty-fourth part of the whole number of inhabitants of the state, nor shall it have less assessed taxable property than one and one-half millions of dollars, nor shall it contain an area of less than four hundred square miles "; and that " no old county shall be reduced to less area than five hundred square miles, to less assessed taxable property than two million dollars, nor to a smaller population than fifteen thousand inhabitants."

    318

    The consumption of honey g y a s an article of food has also largely increased of late i years; a recent computation shows that from too to 125 million lb of honey, representing a money value of from eight to ten million dollars, is consumed annually in the United States alone.

    319

    The corporation have statutory power to raise the lake 50 ft., at which level it will have an available capacity of about 8000 million gallons; to secure this a masonry dam has been constructed, though the lake is at present worked at a lower level.

    320

    The deal will also absolve her of some $ 25 million in debts the estate currently owes.

    321

    The desire of numerous divorced persons for a change in the law which prevented their remarriage was manifested in repeated demonstrations before Parliament; especially in that of Dec. 1911, in which it was asserted that the lives of half a million divorced wives were affected.

    322

    The elector commuted his claims in right of his mother, the Bavarian princess Maria Antonia, for six million florins, which he spent chiefly in redeeming Saxon territory that had been pawned to other German states.

    323

    The Eleventh Edition filled 29 volumes and contains over 44 million words.

    324

    The estimated cost, borne by Prussia, Saxony and the city of Leipzig, is estimated at 6 million pounds sterling.

    325

    The ethylene cracker is expandable to 1·5 million tons, which would make it the world's largest.

    326

    The exhibition of 1844, which was attended by more than a million pilgrims, aroused protests, resulting in the formation of the sect of German Catholics.

    327

    The expedition cost Great Britain a million and a half, but the attempt at farther extension westwards was foiled, and a little later treaties with Lobenguela and the grant to Cecil Rhodes and his co-directors of a charter for the British South.

    328

    The expenditure on relief alone was about a million sterling; and the total cost of the famine, including loss of revenue, amounted to nearly twice that amount.

    329

    The export of gold, which was £1,220,000 in 1880, did not exceed that figure until 1898, and, indeed, fell below threequarters of a million in 1887.

    330

    The exportation in I902 only reached about 45 million gallons (and even that is double the average), while an equally abundant vintage in France and Spain rendered the exportation of the balance of 1907 impossible, and fiscal regulations rendered the distillation of the superfluous amount difficult.

    331

    The exports are, on the average, over one million sterling, and imports about double in value.

    332

    The extent to which the annual production of the leading fodder crop may vary is shown in the table by the two consecutive years 1893 and 1894; from only nine million tons in the former year the production rose to upwards of fifteen million tons in the latter, an increase of over 70%.

    333

    The first matter was .the debt, amounting to over 3000 million gulden, in addition to the floating debt, which had been contracted during recent years.

    334

    The first ten years of his active reign passed in peace and quiet; agriculture, manufactures and industries were fostered, economical reforms instituted, and the heavy public debt of forty million thalers was steadily reduced.

    335

    The following day, a super market tabloid offered a one million dollar reward for concrete information on the existence of the "Psychic Tipster," Howard Abbott's new nom de plume.

    336

    The four million figure was erroneously attributed in the printed brochure to the year 1996.

    337

    The government in 1903 authorized the issue of treasury notes for the department of Beni and the National Territory to the amount of one million bolivianos (£87,500), for the redemption of which 10% of the customs receipts of the two districts is set apart.

    338

    The great bulk of the population is of Teutonic stock, and about a quarter of a million are of Flemish blood.

    339

    The great estates of the Church, on which were settled about a million serfs, were secularized and assimilated with the state-domains.

    340

    The greatest yield in this same period was in 1900, when over 1470 million gallons were produced.

    341

    The gross revenue of the state is more than a million sterling.

    342

    The Guide reckoned we saw about 3.5 million Mexican Free-tailed bats exit the Cave in one hour 7.30-8.30pm.

    343

    The guy skipped out with his sec­retary after he faked his drowning and embezzled a million dol­lars.

    344

    The harbour of Cagliari (along the north side of which runs a promenade called the Via Romo) is a good one, and has a considerable trade, exporting chiefly lead, zinc and other minerals and salt, the total annual value of exports amounting to nearly 12 million sterling in value.

    345

    The highest production on record was in the year 1875, when roughly 1840 million gallons were produced.

    346

    The hydrodynamic cavitation by itself killed off 99 million out of 100 million E.coli cells in a body of water.

    347

    The ILO estimates 250 million people globally suffer a work-related accident each year and 3,000 workers are killed daily.

    348

    The imports are estimated at a million more.

    349

    The imports do not reach a quarter of a million sterling.

    350

    The imports, which consist chiefly of machinery, fruits (dried and fresh), wie, oil and textiles, do not much exceed half a million sterling annually.

    351

    The Internet Bookshop Claims to be Europe's largest on-line bookstore, with over 1.4 million UK & US titles.

    352

    The interpretation of certain figures given in the Domesday Survey (which do not cover certain parts of modern England nor take account of the ecclesiastical population) is a matter of widely divergent opinion; but a total population of one million and a half has been accepted by many for the close of the 11th century.

    353

    The Irrigation Commission of 1901 advised an expenditure of 30 millions sterling, spread over a term of twenty years, and irrigating 62 million acres in addition to the 47 millions already irrigated at that time; but it was estimated that that programme would practically exhaust the irrigable land in India, and that some of the later works would be merely protective against the danger of famine, and would not be financially productive.

    354

    The joint production of Tunis and Algeria in 1907 was not less than a million tons.

    355

    The large ship canals to Rotterdam and Amsterdam, called the New Waterway and the North Sea canal respectively, were constructed in 1866-1872 and 1865-1876 at a cost of 21 and 3 million pounds sterling, the former by widening the channel of the Scheur north of Rozenburg, and cutting across the Hook of Holland, the latter by utilizing the bed of the Y and cutting through the dunes at Ymuiden.

    356

    The Lebanon community numbers about 300,000, and the total of the whole denomination cannot be much under half a million.

    357

    The lighthouse is at the end of the breakwater, of which the whole cost was nearly 12 million sterling.

    358

    The Moplahs, who number upwards of a million, are believed to be descended from Arab immigrants, who landed on the western coast of India in the 3rd century after the Hegira.

    359

    The new sovereign and her government refused to ratify the agreement which had been illegally obtained, choosing rather to pay a million francs as compensation to the French company.

    360

    The next name is billion, which in Great Britain properly means a million million, and in the United States (as in France) a thousand million.

    361

    The normal area under sugar-cane in India is generally about 3 million acres, chiefly in the United Provinces, Bengal, and the Punjab.

    362

    The Northern Way Business Plan for instance sets aside £ 12 million for programs focused on getting incapacity benefit claimants back into work.

    363

    The number of employes killed in train accidents was 12.9 in 10 million train miles.

    364

    The number of passengers (36) killed in train accidents in 1907 was equal to o 0759 per million passengers carried and o o024 per million kilometres travelled by passengers, or 0.1503 per million kilometres travelled by trains.

    365

    The obligatory Referendum obtains in the case of all laws, and of decrees relating to an expenditure of over half a million francs, while 12,000 citizens have the right of initiative in the case of legislative projects, and 15,000 may demand the revision of the cantonal constitution.

    366

    The offering price gives the company an initial market capitalization of about $ 627 million.

    367

    The original stock of $3,000,000, of which the state was to subscribe $2,000,000, was increased in 1855 to $4,000,000, the state subscribing the added million.

    368

    The Ostend Company was formed in 1722-1723, and with a capital of less than a million sterling founded two settlements, one at Coblom (Covelong) on the Madras coast between the English Madras and the Dutch Sadras, and the other on the Hugh between the English Calcutta and the Dutch Chinsura.

    369

    The output in 1905 exceeded 34 million tons, valued at £12,500,000 sterling, and equal to more than a quarter of the entire yield of Germany.

    370

    The passenger traffic, which is in the hands of the Sachsisch-Bohmische Dampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft is limited to Bohemia and Saxony, steamers plying up and down the stream from Dresden to Melnik, occasionally continuing the journey up the Moldau to Prague, and down the river as far as Riesa, near the northern frontier of Saxony, and on the average 12 million passengers are conveyed.

    371

    The passing of some 3500 enclosure bills, affecting between 5 and 5z million acres, during the reign of George III., before which the whole number was between 200 and 250, shows how rapidly the break-up of the common-field husbandry and the cultivation of new land now proceeded.

    372

    The population consists of Iranians (Tajiks, Kurds, Baluchis), Mongols, Tatars and Arabs, and is estimated at about a million.

    373

    The port is visited yearly by some 1300 steamers with a tonnage of 2-1 million tons.

    374

    The present annual output is in round numbers 230 million tons, and the calculated available resources in the proved coalfields are in round numbers 100,000 million tons, exclusive of the 40,000 million tons in the unproved coalfields, which we have thought best to regard only as probable or speculative.

    375

    The present output amounts to roughly 150 million gallons, and the acreage under the vine has increased from 107,048 hectares in 1890 to 167,657 hectares in 1905.

    376

    The principal commodity is furs (chiefly American and Russian), of which about one and a quarter million pounds worth are sold annually; other articles disposed of are leather, hides, wool, cloth, linen and glass.

    377

    The product first exceeded one million tons in 1882, two in 1888, three in 1890, four in 1893, five in 1900.

    378

    The production has made great advance, having in 1850 been only 5 million cwts.

    379

    The Protestants number about one million, the largest body being the Evangelical Church in Slovakia with a membership of over 400,000.

    380

    The quantity of brick tea thus exported in 1904 was upwards of 10 million lb.

    381

    The quantity produced has since then steadily increased and its yearly value is estimated at half a million.

    382

    The quarries have been worked since 1630 and yield some eight million slates every year.

    383

    The reservoir is said to contain 130 million cub.

    384

    The result was that in the following year the wheat crop of the United Kingdom was harvested upon the smallest area on record - less than 12 million acres.

    385

    The result was that the income from customs and excise rose from about 230 million marks in 1878-1879 to about 700 millions in 1898-1899, and Bismarcks object in removing a great burden from the states was attained.

    386

    The revenue of the state is about one million sterling; and large reserves have been accumulated, from which two millions were lent to the government of India in 1887, and later on another million for the construction of the Gwalior-Agra and Indore-Neemuch railways.

    387

    The revenue, which in 1898 was £E35,000, for the first time exceeded a million in 1909, when the amount realized was £E1,040,200.

    388

    The rice crop is most important in Burma, Bengal and Madras, and there is an average of 20 million acres under rice in the other provinces of British India.

    389

    The rice exported from Rangoon in 1904-5 amounted to 28 million cwt.

    390

    The Riksdag further resolved that loo million kroner (about £555,000) should be held in readiness and be available as the Riksdag might decide.

    391

    The Rohillas were never a nation, but consisted of a small body of Mahommedans, who had imposed an alien rule upon a million Hindus; and one of their chiefs was left in possession of a tract which now forms the state of Rampur.

    392

    The Safety maintenance backlog was reduced from £ 83 million to £ 71 million.

    393

    The sales earned for the general and his family something like half a million dollars.

    394

    The same disparity is shown in her trade with Germany, which is, however, much smaller - less than half a million.

    395

    The settled population is barely a million; but there is a considerable unsettled element in the S.E.which cannot well be estimated.

    396

    The shipments to the United Kingdom, however, which reached a maximum in 1820, when over half a million gallons were imported, has fallen off to one-tenth of that amount, and the consumption in these islands was barely 20,000 gallons in 1906.

    397

    The sitting increased from a million in 1851 to about 2,375,000 in 1910.

    398

    The solar corona is hotter than a million degrees Celsius The Sun is our nearest star.

    399

    The stand of yellow pine in the state in 1880 was estimated at 5316 million ft.; and in 1905 it was estimated at 3363 million ft.

    400

    The staple article of trade from the island has always been the ubiquitous coconut, of which it is computed that 15 million are produced annually.

    401

    The state bonded debt in 1907 amounted to three and a half million dollars, of which all but $767,529.03 was represented by bonds purchased by the state and held for the school and university funds; for the common school fund on the 1st of July 1907 there were held bonds for $4, 8 9 0, 95 0, and $800,000 in cash available for investment; for the university fund there were held $751,000 in state bonds, and a large amount in other securities.

    402

    The state has no bonded debt, and the constitution forbids it to incur debts exceeding in the aggregate a quarter of a million dollars, except for warlike purposes or for some single work to which the people give their consent by vote; the constitution also forbids any county or municipal corporation from incurring an indebtedness exceeding 5% of the value of its taxable property.

    403

    The state of war with Soviet Russia, however, continued until the Peace Treaty of July 12 1920, whereunder the Lithuanian claim to Vilna and Grodno was recognized by the Bolsheviks and Lithuania received three million rubles in gold and 100,000 hectares of forest land for exploitation.

    404

    The storm will inundate low-lying areas, with 4 million people at risk of flooding in the UK alone.

    405

    The sugar factories and refineries, situated chiefly in the governments of Warsaw, Lublin and Plock, turn out approximately one million tons of sugar in the year, the Polish sugar industry being exceeded in Russia only by that of Kiev.

    406

    The sum total expended upon the buildings amounted to half a million of money, and the yearly charges of the establishment were a heavy burden on the exchequer.

    407

    The team conducted adjudications regarding construction claims worth £ 3 million for RCN.

    408

    The thickness of 80 beds amounts to 250 ft., and the total mass of coal is estimated at 45,400 million tons.

    409

    The tonnage annually shipped ranges from about 42 millions of tons in the case of Newcastle to some half a million in the case of Liverpool; but the export trade of Cardiff in South Wales far surpasses that of any English port, being more than three times that of Newcastle in 1903.

    410

    The total amount of ore raised in England is about 121 million tons, but it is not so high, in some iron-fields, as formerly.

    411

    The total amount produced in Germany is estimated at 1000 million gallons, of a value of 4,000,000; Alsace-Lorraine turning out 400 millions; Baden, 175; Bavaria, Wrttemberg and Hesse together, 300; while the remainder, which though small in quantity is in quality the best, is produced by Prussia.

    412

    The total area under cotton in1905-1906was 201 million acres, and the export was 7,396,000 cwt.

    413

    The total costs of the project are £ 14.6 million.

    414

    The total exports of Italy are on the average not far from 40 million gallons.

    415

    The total gold production of the country is from £14,500,000 to £16,000,000, and as not more than three-quarters of a million are required to strengthen existing local stocks, the balance is usually available for export, and the average export of the precious metal during the ten years, 1896-1905, was £12,500,000 per annum.

    416

    The total number of breweries in the beer excise district was, in 1905-1906, 5995, which produced I017 millior gallons; in Bavaria nearly 6000 breweries with 392 million gallons in Baden over 700 breweries with 68 million gallons; in WUrttem berg over 5000 breweries with 87 million gallons; and in Alsace Lorraine 95 breweries with about 29 million gallons.

    417

    The total output of the Marne district has for the past three years averaged about 9 million gallons, but it occasionally runs as high as 20 million gallons.

    418

    The total sum paid out in eight and a quarter years had been a million and three quarters.

    419

    The total wheat acreage, which at the census of 1901 was 4,224,000, was over 6,200,000 in 1906, an increase of nearly two million acres in five years.

    420

    The trade from the wide extent of three-quarters of a million of square miles of prairie and woodland, becoming more populous every year, must flow as through a narrow spout at Winnipeg; every railway must pass through Winnipeg.

    421

    The trade with the United Kingdom is now a very considerable one, amounting in 1906 to roughly i million gallons to the value of three-quarters of a million sterling.

    422

    The trade with the United Kingdom is small, amounting to little over a quarter of a million gallons annually, and of a value rather less than X50,000.

    423

    The trade with the United States, which in 1887 amounted to little over 120,000 gallons, has risen to considerably over a million gallons.

    424

    The United Kingdom produces no wine, but the Cape and the Australian Commonwealth each produce some 5 million gallons.

    425

    The United States produces roughly 50, Bulgaria and Rumania each 4 o and Servia 10 million gallons.

    426

    The USDA predicts biotech soybean acreage will increase to 54 million, 3.3 million more than last year.

    427

    The value of the exports and imports from and into the whole province is a little under a million sterling a year.

    428

    The value of the port taken by the United Kingdom was in the year 1906 over one million sterling, that is, rather less than half of the total value of all the French wines imported, but more than double the value of the total of Spanish wines.

    429

    The vast majority of the sheep are of the merino breed, but there are about a million long-woolled sheep and between two and three million cross-bred.

    430

    The velocity of propagation of electric waves is the same as that of light, viz., about moo million feet, or 300 million metres, per second.

    431

    The wars and extravagance of the elector-king, who regained the Polish crown in i 709, are said to have cost Saxony a hundred million thalers.

    432

    The waters are used both for drinking and bathing, and of the two chief springs, the Oberbrunnen and the Kronenquelle, nearly two million bottles are annually exported.

    433

    The whole extent of forests is estimated at little more than 73/4 million acres, or less than 6% of the area of the kingdom.

    434

    The whole responsibility for the payment of the remainder of the interest, amounting annually to over a hundred million gulden, and the management of the debt, was left to the Austrians.

    435

    The whole system is owned by the municipality and canfurnish about 300 million gallons daily.

    436

    The yield for 1901 was 5528 tons, but a large increase took place subsequently, eleven million new plants having been added in southern Italy in 1905.

    437

    The yield of iron ore is almost one million tons annually, while gold, silver, tin, graphite and salt are also mined.

    438

    Their joint capacity is 11,320 million gallons, and this will be increased to about 18,000 millions when the remaining three are built.

    439

    There are a reported two million male cocaine addicts in the US.

    440

    There are about 75,000 acres under the vine in this state, and roughly 5 million gallons are produced annually.

    441

    There are an estimated 50 million recreational anglers in the USA.

    442

    There are separate names for ten, ten times ten (= hundred), and ten times ten times ten (= thousand); but the next single name is million, representing a thousand times a thousand.

    443

    There is a large fishing industry in Lake Huron, the Canadian catch being valued at over a quarter million dollars per annum.

    444

    There is a trade with China, valued at less than half a million sterling annually.

    445

    There is also a small revenue from mining lands, timber licences, &c. The state still holds 146 million acres out of a total of 196 million acres, having alienated about 50 million acres.

    446

    There is further an import trade amounting to between two and three-quarters and three millions sterling annually with Manchuria, to over one million sterling with the United States, and to a quarter to half a million sterling with Japan.

    447

    There was thus a withdrawal during the period of over 22 million acres from cereal cultivation.

    448

    There were also £ 301 million short-term commercial paper borrowings, all sterling denominated.

    449

    These negotiations continued all through 1908 and resulted in a treaty, signed and ratified in 1909, by which Siam ceded to Great Britain her suzerain rights over the dependencies of Kedah, Kelantan, Trengganu and Perlis, Malay states situated in southern Siam just north of British Malaya, containing in all about a million inhabitants and for the most part flourishing and wealthy, and obtained the practical abolition of British jurisdiction in Siam proper as well as relief from any obligations which, though probably very necessary when they were incurred, had long since become mere useless and vexatious obstacles to progress towards efficient government.

    450

    They are said to number nearly a million.

    451

    They number now, including half-breeds, about half a million in Bolivia.

    452

    They raise rather more than a million a year by rates, licence fees and dues.

    453

    They were all absolutely convinced that these documents showed me receiving $ 10 million from the Saddam regime.

    454

    They will simply announce an amnesty, making all the one million or more illegals legal.

    455

    Think the only government with sizeable silver bullion is India (approx 120 million Oz ).

    456

    This £ 2.34 million program is designed to develop aquaculture within Wales.

    457

    This amount was 20o million tons in excess of that actually discharged.

    458

    This argument to the pocket quickly had its effect, and licences were applied for in such numbers that, in royalties for the use of his process, Bessemer received a sum in all considerably exceeding a million sterling.

    459

    This caused widespread blackouts, which cost the Canadian national grid several million of pounds in damage to their systems.

    460

    This fleet is computed to number some 8500 craft, with an aggregate capacity of over 2 million tons, of which about one-tenth are steamships.

    461

    This is an inappreciable distance when compared with the diameter of the sun, which is nearly a million of miles, but the significance for our present purpose depends upon the fact that this contraction is always taking place.

    462

    This is the first time we've had an honest discussion in about a million years.

    463

    This point of view suggested numerous projects, as chimerical as they were generous; two millions sterling (50 million francs) were expended with a view to installing Parisian unemployed workmen as colonists, but this attempt failed miserably.

    464

    This sect counts numerous adherents in southern India; the Census Report of 1901 recording nearly a million and a half, including some 70 or 80 different, mostly endogamous, castes.

    465

    This will bring forward annual carbon savings of around 35,000 tons and annual household energy bill reductions of around £ 20 million.

    466

    This year's budget is $17 million and the student cohort will be $15,000 - a growth achieved through graft and a little guile.

    467

    Those substances which are attracted, or rather which tend, like iron, to move from weaker to stronger parts of the magnetic field, are termed paramagnetic; those which are repelled, or tend to move from stronger to weaker parts of the field, are termed diamagnetic. Between the ferromagnetics and the paramagnetics there is an enormous gap. The maximum magnetic susceptibility of iron is half a million times greater than that of liquid oxygen, one of the strongest paramagnetic substances known.

    468

    Three million tons of merchandise pass Magdeburg, going upstream, and nearly i million tons, going downstream, annually.

    469

    Three years ago 200 million Ethiopian birr was allocated for food security interventions to the four regions covered by the program.

    470

    Three years later these and various other engagements were consolidated into a systematic plan for the administration of the Baroda territory, under a prince with a revenue of three-quarters of a million sterling, perfectly independent in all internal matters, but practically kept on his throne by subsidiary British troops.

    471

    Thus in 1896 Rumania produced no less than 101 million gallons and Bulgaria 81 million gallons.

    472

    Thus in 1901 the department of the Herault alone produced nearly 300 million gallons of wine, or approximately a quarter of the whole output of France.

    473

    Thus in 1902 the total output was nearly 32 million tons, of which 2,850,000 tons were iron ore.

    474

    Thus, in 1901, not far from a million men were required for enumeration alone.

    475

    Thus, owing to purely climatic vagaries, the quantity of wine produced in Germany in 1891 was only 16 million gallons, whereas in 1896 it amounted to tit millions.

    476

    To each person hitherto appanaged an annual income of one million lives was assigned, and two millions for the brothers of the king.

    477

    To the wise foresight which, at a moment when the country was sinking beneath a weight of debt, did not hesitate to add this million for expenditure on productive works, the present prosperity of Egypt is largely due.

    478

    To these must be added wine (mostly of excellent quality) of an annual value of about one million sterling, peas and beans, maize, fruit, chiefly cherries and apples, beets and tobacco, and garden and dairy produce.

    479

    Trade in other commodities, however, is on the increase, exports now amounting to nearly half a million sterling and imports to half that figure.

    480

    Twenty years and 1.45 million cars later it was still technically advanced to most other cars.

    481

    Under the new rules there will be two options to protect benefits in excess of £ 1.5 million under the transitional arrangements.

    482

    Up to 1895 the gold output was below ten million dollars yearly; from 1898 to 1904 it ran from 21.6 to 28.7 millions.

    483

    Up to 1906 dependence was mainly upon the streams, which it is estimated might furnish 3 or 4 million acre-feet - enough to irrigate between 10 and 15% of the arid section - were all the water available, and the land I Data of the State Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics, which are lower than those of the state Board of Agriculture, and (in census years) the Federal Census.

    484

    Up to 2012, there had been 4.2 million speeding convictionsin total, of which 2.2 million occurred in 2011.

    485

    Vodafone boss Arun Sarin has set his company a target of winning 10 million 3G phone users by March 2006.

    486

    We may therefore say that the intensity of sunlight is somewhat more than half a million times that of full moonlight.

    487

    We've done this a million times!

    488

    We've seen here mark Bradley of are made pursuant alone includes million.

    489

    Wheat was long California's greatest crop. Its production steadily increased till about 1884, the production in 1880, the banner year, being more than 54 million bushels (32,537,360 centals).

    490

    Wheat, barley, eggs, butter, oilcake, hides, tallow, leather, tobacco, rugs, feathers and other items add considerably to the total value of the exports, which increased from 14 million sterling in 1851-1860 to 8-14 millions sterling in 1901-1905.

    491

    When a telescope is employed this number is enormously increased, and still more so with the introduction of photographic methods; with modern appliances more than a hundred million of these objects may be rendered perceptible.

    492

    When Shuja-ud-Dowlah died he left two million pounds sterling buried in the vaults of the zenana.

    493

    Whereas in 1850 the production amounted to little more than a million gallons, the output to-day is, in good years, not far short of 50 million gallons.

    494

    While Charles Fox's father was at the pay-office (1765-1778) he realized as the interest of the cash balances which he was allowed to retain in his hands, nearly a quarter of a million of money.

    495

    Wines Of The British Empire The production of the British empire is very small, amounting to roughly to million gallons, and this is produced almost entirely in the Cape of Good Hope and in the Australian Commonwealth.

    496

    With the exception of New York City the state was loyal to the Union cause during the war and furnished over a half million troops to the Federal armies.

    497

    With the object of reaching fainter stars, Professor Pickering constructed another instrument of larger dimensions, and with this more than a million observations have been made.

    498

    Yet only £ 95 million a year was spent treating alcoholics compared with £ 500 million a year treating people with drug problems.

    499

    Yet this was in 1818, when the legislature was setting a praiseworthy example - when half a million had been spent in providing large airy cells for a thousand prisoners.

    500

    You're not just trying to win that million bucks, are you?