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Example sentences for "three millions"

  • And as the peace revenue of the United States may at the existing rate of duties be fairly estimated at fifteen millions, there would remain from the first outset a surplus of three millions applicable to the redemption of the debt.

  • Supposing the debt contracted during the war not to exceed fifty millions and its annual interest to amount to three millions, the aggregate of the peace expenditure would be no more than twelve millions.

  • I have stated the amount of lead annually produced by the Missouri mines at three millions of pounds, which, on reflection, I think is sufficiently high.

  • The number of mines now wrought is about fifty, and the quantity of lead annually smelted is estimated at three millions of pounds.

  • Three millions of people shut out from the light of knowledge!

  • While this nation is guilty of the enslavement of three millions of innocent men and women, it is as idle to think of having a sound and lasting peace, as it is to think there is no God to take cognizance of the affairs of men.

  • The number of souls in England (exclusive of Scotland and Ireland) is seven millions,* and the number of souls in America is three millions.

  • Smith, in his chapter on Public Debts, says, that the national debt was at this time fifty-three millions.

  • These payments and reimbursements of the funded debt, with those which had been made in the four years and a half preceding, will at the close of the present year have extinguished upward of twenty-three millions of principal.

  • Two or three millions of years ago an enormous family of monkeys spread over Europe, Asia and Africa.

  • With from one to three millions of distinct species in the animal and vegetable world, not a single species has been traced to another.

  • Harvard University, said: "It is not yet proved that a single species of the two or three millions, now inhabiting the earth had been established solely or mainly, by the operation of natural selection.

  • If we accept this amount as approximately what will be needed for each new missionary sent out, the United States and Canada must increase the amount of money given to about forty-three millions of dollars annually.

  • There are about twenty-two millions of Protestant church-members in the United States and nine hundred thousand in Canada, about twenty-three millions in all.

  • France in the proportion of four to one, will be about one hundred and seventy-three millions sterling.

  • Three millions of people--a number equal to that which made the revolution--are now unrepresented, who will be then represented.

  • Such clean-taking from that dish will allow two or three millions more to go to the reduction of the public debt; and there can be no danger in taking the last dollar, as reason and experience both prove.

  • Three millions of cultivators of the soil are now found between the Lakes and the Ohio, where, little more than fifty years before, save only three or four half Indian French settlements, there was not a single white inhabitant.

  • In solar affairs we measure by an astronomical unit, which is the sun’s distance from the earth, ninety-three millions of miles.

  • His mean distance from that orb is four hundred and eighty-three millions of miles.

  • You would astonish these profound observers immeasurably, if you were to tell them that the Pope has three millions of subjects who in no way resemble the Roman rabble.

  • We are one hundred and thirty-nine millions of Catholics, who have violently delegated to three millions of Italians the honour of boarding and lodging our spiritual chief.

  • The police is too paternal to refuse the consolations of the flesh to three millions of persons out of whom five or six thousand have taken the vow of celibacy.

  • Three millions and a quarter for completing the cathedral of Milan.

  • For blessings such as these, is the issue of exchequer bills to the extent of two or three millions a-year for some years an extravagant price to pay?

  • Within the next twenty years the reparations cost the Austrian treasury not less than fifty-three millions of francs!

  • There are, my lords, three millions of Whigs in America.

  • Three millions of Whigs, with arms in their hands, are a formidable body!

  • Three millions of dollars were appropriated for supplying arms and stores, and five hundred dollars a month for the salary of a commander-in-chief, to be elected.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    essential service; iron pipes; three cents; three classes; three cupfuls; three dayes; three dimensions; three dollars; three drams; three gallons; three hundred thousand men; three kingdoms; three lights; three minutes; three nights; three pence; three principal; three rows; three shillings; three stages; three threads; three volumes; three were; three wire; three witnesses; three yards