By this meager percentage, seven thousand liberally trained men are needed for the nearly seven million Africans in our country.
Think of that, Bethany--a million leagued together just in Methodism!
More than that, these were only the advance-guard, for over a million young people are enlisted in the same cause.
The speed and period together easily give the radius of the circular orbit as about 8 million miles.
The whole range of vibrations between musical tones and some thousand million per second, is now filled up.
Radiation is not the only thing the earth feels from the sun; there is in addition its gigantic gravitative pull, a force or tension more than what a million million steel rods, each seventeen feet in diameter, could stand (see Chap.
If this force were to be transmitted by a forest of weightless pillars each a square foot in cross-section, with a tension of 30 tons to the square inch throughout, there would have to be 5 million million of them.
And this is equivalent to a millionmillion round rods or pillars each 30 feet in diameter.
Another mode of expressing the result is that the difference of magnetic potential applied, namely, a drop of two million C.
His or her taste may be good, or it may be immature and vicious; it may be used simply to create a sensation; and yet the million of readers get nothing except what this one person chooses they shall read.
Why, ten millions, if you have a hundred, is no more than one million if you have only ten.
He had come to believe that the enterprises in which he was engaged, that absolutely gave him, it was believed, an income of a million a year, were for the public good.
I've got to look round for an extra million somewhere today.
Have you any idea how much ten millions are, or how much one million is?
I said that all the world was asked, which is our way of saying that a thousand or two had been carefully selected from the million within reach.
The calculating mind wonders how many millionfeet of lumber there are in this unpicturesque barricade, and what gigantic forests have fallen to make this timber front to the sea.
Dear dreamer, it is a beautiful city, and for one reason and another a million of people who have homes there think so.
Mister," he said, slowly, "have you got a million for to squander on me?
And such an army of a readymillion of well trained officers and men, voluntary service would easily produce.
She could rapidly send to help the Russians to resume their part in the war against Germany at least a million of men; two millions if they were needed.
Two million people--two hundred and fifty thousand fighting men--and all English!
There must be a fair twomillion of 'em in these hills.
Wherever he went, the tops of the houses and the attic windows were packed with wondering spectators, and he reckoned that the town must hold quite half a million of people.
As a popular song, to be considered successful, must sell anywhere from half a million to a million copies, it is easy to estimate the song-writer's return.
Charles Frohman is reported to have said: "A man who could pick out winners would be worth a salary of a milliondollars a year.
All we appropriated for the navy last year was four million dollars.
And by the time they get through, it'll cost us three hundred millionand we'll only have one.
And there's eighty million people in this country.
If ten million years are not sufficient, take twenty," they say: "If fifty million years are not enough take one or two hundred millions.
Yes, I believe that it is even possible to serve society to such an extent as to earn a hundred million in the span of a human life, or an average of three million a year for thirty-three and one-third years.
And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents [ten million dollars].
Now we have a remedy so complete that of the nearly a million men who reached the battle-line in France not one died of typhoid, and only one hundred and twenty-five of the four millions called to the colours.
To earn five hundred millionone must earn on an average fifteen million a year for thirty-three and one-third years.
Forty years ago a young preacher in Portland, Maine, gathered a few young people about him and formed a Christian Endeavour Society; now it numbers more than four million members.
Darwin estimated this period at two hundred million years while Darwin's son estimated it at fifty-seven million.
I take it for granted that no one will deny that it is possible for one to earn this sum by rendering a service equal to it in value, but what shall we say of a million dollars?
My first ride in an automobile was taken in the campaign of 1896; since then something like seventeen million automobiles have been brought into use.
Then he stumbled onward yet again, feebly, being a cripple, and cold to the bone, and pierced with a million thorns of pain.
The great man, dead, changes to a million worms, and lives again in the juices of the grass above his grave.
There is one answer indeed; but it is the answer of all the million races of the universe, which only cry, "We are born but to perish; is Humanity a thing so high and pure that it should claim exemption from the universal and inexorable law?
Away on the horizon was a vague, vast, golden cloud, like a million threads of gossamer glowing in the sun.
She came to a broad place, which even in that night of storm was still a blaze of fire, and seemed to her to laugh through all its marble mask, and all its millioneyes of golden light.
The sun has a million rays; so has gold a million eyes; do you not know?
The million have been driven to do so much for themselves, that they are in no little danger of jumping to the conclusion, that they no longer need teachers of religion.
The abolition of slavery in 1834 freed a quarter million slaves, many of whom became small farmers.
Over one million visitors come to the island each year with most arriving through the Princess Juliana International Airport in Sint Maarten.
Fifteen thousand stands of arms, and almost three million rounds of ammunition, had been actually received and carefully stored at various places along the frontier between Ogdensburg and St. Albans.
And by the time we run out of Lebensraum in Brazil and Alaska, in Central America and the Argentine, in Texas and Saskatchewan, we're going to need the three million square miles of the Sahara.
You've got to remember, the Sahara covers an area of some three and a halfmillion square miles.
The human race can't allow three and a half million square miles of land to be valueless.
The Mali Federation alone has almost two millionsquare miles in it, and less than twenty million population.
There were at least a million things he wished to point out, but the only one on which his brain would focus was the fact that if these men saw Nicholas, they would no longer imagine him to be dead.
And isn't it a million times better to be even mistaken in trust where a friend is concerned, than give way to the smallest doubt which may afterwards be proved to be a wrong doubt?
Half a million are employed, on the railways alone.
He saw the million eyes of the Desert watching him from beneath the level lids of centuries.
For down the enormous vista into which he gazed, as into an avenue running a million miles towards a tiny point, he saw this moving Thing that came towards him, shaking loose the countless veils of sand the ages had swathed about it.
By doing so, you destroy, let us say, two million of my women and children?
He's just cleaned up half a million or more,--some new scheme for making refined sugar out of huckleberries.
They had buried a million of their sons, brothers, and fathers.
The automobile industry as a whole expended one billion three hundred million dollars in order to expand its factories to fill government orders.
In this time she had transported a million and a half troops overseas and had the same number on this side, with the numbers always increasing.
They were bleeding from a million wounds and more.
This plan was accepted with great favor by the people, and consequently, the day after registration the government had ten million men in the prime of life from which to pick her army.
About one million Armenians were exterminated in this way in 1915.
The physical destruction of two million men, women, and children by massacres, organized and directed by the state, seemed to be the one sure way of forestalling the further disruption of the Turkish Empire.
First he made a plan to kill about two million of his subjects living in Armenia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "million" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
