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n. 百万；无数
adj. 百万的；无数的
num. 百万
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I have no desire to make millions of dollars.

Wild carrots probably evolved with the other flowering plants about 360 million years ago.

The federal Head Start program, launched 50 years ago, has served more than 30 million children.

On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume -72- highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion ( ' , 转向) of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.

Millions of irrigation wells in many countries are now pumping water out of underground sources faster than rainfall can refill them.

Millions of irrigation wells have significantly lowered water tables in almost every state.

As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China's wheat crop, the world's largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997.

Was it because of the growing attraction of the Internet, video games and endless TV channels? Never disconnecting from work? No matter how it happened, millions of Americans are putting their health, quality of life and even length of life in danger.

The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.

In its latest update on global employment trends, the agency says projections of the number of unemployed people this year range from 210 million to nearly 240 million people.

It produces about two million tons of salt that is shipped to more than 1,500 places in the northeastern United States.

It has, like, a million legs.

At least 65 million people in the United States have a criminal record.

About a million bottles are bought every minute, not only by thirsty tourists but also by many of the 2.1 billion worldwide who live with unsafe drinking water.

An industry backed anti-tax campaign has spent at least $4 million on advertisements.

Back in June, the Federal Communications Commission fined AT&T $100 million over accusations that the carrier secretly reduced wireless speeds after customers consumed a certain amount of data.

Backing this up, recent data show that passenger cars in the UK emitted 69 million tons of CO2 in 2015.

If current trends continue, then by 2050 there will be more than a million in the, US alone.

In order to go ahead with this idea, we need 2 million dollars.

In the UK alone, there are around 30 million cars.

It costs about $1 million to create a new textbook.

It's expected to raise $410 million over the next five years, most of which will go toward funding a universal pre-kindergarten program for the city.

Last October, the company pledged $1 million in cash and transportation support for Hurricanes Florence and Michael.

Last week, France announced that the country will pave 621 miles of road with solar panels over the next five years, with the goal of providing cheap, renewable energy to five million people.

On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion of U.S. grain to t

PepsiCo's research and development budget in 2015 was $754 million.

Popping food into the microwave for a couple of minutes may seem utterly harmless, but Europe's stock of these quick-cooking ovens emit as much carbon as nearly 7 million cars, a new study has found.

Sales have doubled from $5 million in 2014 to $10 million in 2015, with 25 new branches planned for 2016.

The 50-year-old father of three and king to 17 million Dutch citizens calls flying a"hobby".

The aircraft cost 25 million pounds and can carry heavier loads than huge jet planes while also producing less noise and emitting less pollution.

The American Trucking Association lists approximately 3.5 million professional truck drivers in the U.S.

The company's self-driving cars have done well over a million miles across various states in the U.S., and until now have only reported minor accidents.

The fossil hall, which displays some of the world's oldest and largest fossil specimens, receives more than 2 million visitors each year.

The insect-spraying over the weekend left more than 2 million bees dead on the spot in Dorchester County, South Carolina, where four travel-related cases of zika disease have been confirmed in the area.

This is pushing sales of new microwaves which are expected to reach 135 million annually in the EU by the end of the decade.

The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.

Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository ( ' , 库), and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects—but these remain the exception, not the rule.

It is estimated that extreme weather conditions have endangered the lives of millions of African children.

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o ( ' , 厄尔尼诺) weather phenomenon in decades.

2 million barrels per day to the crude oil market, contributing to a global over-supply.

And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.

About 183.8 million people will shop on Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving.

About 136 million people will shop during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend.

To get access to millions of new customers, insurers would have a strong incentive to sell on the exchange.

Nearly 2.2 million people die a year because of diarrhea-related ( ' , 与腹泻相关的) diseases, according to WHO statistics.

Magna, an advertising agency, reckons it will be worth about $138 million this year.

It is polluting millions of acres of cropland.

In the year to August 2007, IKEA, a Swedish furniture chain, sold over one million kitchens worldwide.

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

BSkyB, Britain's biggest satellite-television service, already provides 9 million customers with interactive ads.

However, Brazil's stretch of misfortune has created opportunities for China, with a Chinese company winning the $100 million contract in 2015 to rebuild the Brazilian station.

The notion of space tourism took hold in 2001 with a $20 million flight aboard a Russian spacecraft by Dennis Tito, a millionaire engineer with an adventurous streak.

Medicare could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if everyone used the cheaper drug, Avastin, instead of the costlier one, Lucentis.

In the US, the House of Representatives Science Committee has approved a bill allocating $10 million a year to studying energy-related behaviour.

For all their troubles, the United States’ 3,500 institutions were flooded with more than half a million students from 193 countries last year.

The music service This Is My Jam helps people navigate the tens of millions of tracks now available instantly via Spotify and iTunes.

million jobs, or one-third of the workforce in manufacturing, have been lost.

million jobs lost in the last three months, there is urgent desire to boost the economy as quickly as possible

Stored underground in large salt caves in Louisiana, this stockpile is called the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and currently contains over 600 million barrels of oil, roughly equivalent to one month's supply.

So far, Google has scanned more than 10 million titles from libraries in America and Europe - including half a million volumes held by the Bodleian in Oxford.

Of the roughly 40 million books in US libraries, for example, an estimated 32 million are in copyright.

As Santiago de la Mora, head of Google Books for Europe, puts it: "By making it possible to search the millions of books that exist today, we hope to expand the frontiers of human knowledge.

Such programs can be expensive, of course, but cheap compared with the millions already invested in scholarships and grants for kids who have little chance to graduate without special support.

Today, universities have produced millions of physicists.

Each side provides the winter home for millions of monarchs.

We can invent computers capable of processing ten million calculations per second.

Nearly nine million Americans alone suffer from the illness.

We don't even have $1 million

They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies but Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlock room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars worth of art work from the university museum.

million years, a period when global temperatures probably were not significantly higher than they are today.

In geological time, a million years is recent history

It's a complex system wherein data is copied to multiple intermediate devices, usually to speed up access to files when millions of people are trying to access the service at the same time.

The kidnappers had been demanding 1 million pounds for the release of Mr. Louis. Louis.

Esperanto is used internationally across language boundaries by at least 1 million people, particularly in specialized fields

1 million breeding pairs - will be forced to relocate their breeding grounds, or face extinction by 2100.

1 million young people answered various questions related to their well-being.

4 million working days were lost to work related stress last year, a jump of nearly a quarter.

5 million people died prematurely from outdoor air pollution in 2015.

5 million worth of young Bison that will be raised according to its grass-fed protocols, with a guaranteed purchase price.

Algorithms that were right 95% of the time when they were dealing with a 13,000-image database, for example, were accurate about 70% of the time when confronted with 1 million images.

And about 200 to 215 million women don't have access to birth control they want, so that they can't control their own fertility.

And as it turns out, even today—with job growth near zero—over 4 million job hunters are being hired every month.

By 1500 some 20 million volumes had already been printed.

By 2030, Germany plans on having over 6 million charging stations installed.

Each day that Elop spent in charge of Nokia, the company's market value declined by $23 million, making him, by the numbers, one of the worst CEOs in history.

Even in June of 2007, when the economy was still moving ahead, job growth was only 132,000, while turnover was 4.7 million!

Every month it remains unopened costs between nine and 10 million euros.

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

Farmers are reporting steep losses and a new $20 million tomato-paste factory has halted production due to the shortages.

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El nio weather phenomenon in decades.

It has become the world's most widely read magazine, selling 28 million copies each month in 17 languages and 41 different editions.

It is estimated that in 2014 the world produced some 42 million metric tons of e-waste discarded electrical and electronic equipment and its parts with North America and Europe accounting for 8 and 12 million metric tons respectively.

It's hardly surprising that over half a million workers suffer from work related mental health conditions.

Located on the Mediterranean just two hours south of Barcelona, the Ebro Delta produces 120 million kilograms of rice a year, making it one of the continent's most important rice-growing areas.

Nearly 2.2 million people die a year because of diarrhea-related diseases, according to WHO statistics.

Other efforts to increase the use of electric vehicles include plans to build over 1 million hybrid and electric car battery charging stations across the country.

So the voice actors are pushing for the idea of secondary compensation一a performance bonus every time a game sells 2 million copies or downloads, or reaches 2 million subscribers, with a cap at 8 million.

Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository 库, and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has o

The advent of new technologies has added about 4.2 million barrels per day to the crude oil market, contributing to a global over-supply.

The Burean of Labor Statistics projects that while the number of nurses will increase by 19 percent by 2022, demand will grow faster than supply, and that there will be over one million unfilled nursing jobs by then.

The idea was to test the machines on a database that included up to 1 million different images of nearly 700, 000 different people—and not just a large database featuring a relatively small number of different faces, more consistent with what's been used

The message to young people who might not otherwise be able to afford to break into the business is, "You can purchase this $3 million piece of land here, because I'm guaranteeing you today you'll have 1, 000 Bison on it."

The notion of space tourism took hold in 2001 with a $20 million flight aboard a Russian spacecraft by Dennis tito, a millionaire engineer with an adventurous streak.

There are currently around 155, 000 registered hybrid and electric vehicles on German roads, dwarfed by the million gasoline and diesel cars driving there now.

There're currently 21.5 million students in America, and many will be funding their college on borrowed money.

We can make a very good estimate from the fossil record that humans probably evolved naked skin around a million and a half years ago and meanwhile they mostly lost their coat of fur.

A neighborhood girl I'd played with millions of times appeared with the exact same basket fixed to her shiny, new bike that already had all the bells and whistles.

After investing more than $1 million in reconstructing the building, we began producing a full season of theater performances, Jazz concerts, and year-round arts education programs in 2008.

Almost half of that winds up in landfills, and up to 12 million tons pollute the oceans.

Another challenge for more than a million of the most qualified farm workers and managers is a non-existent path to citizenship.

As you go through this book, you will find that each of the millions of people who lived through world war ii had a different experience.

At the start of this year, foreigners living in italy amounted to 4.56 million of a total population of 60.6 million, or 7.5 percent, with immigrants’ children accounting for an ever larger percentage of births in italy.

Behaving in this selfless and devoted manner, these little creatures have survived on earth, for more than 140 million years, far longer than dinosaurs.

Business people, political leaders, university professors, and especially millions of grass-roots Americans are taking part in the movement.

But eventually Henry ford would build fifteen million of them.

But humans enjoyed all of these advantages for a full 2 million years during which they remained weak and marginal creature.

But she expects using the chemical in some kind of industrial process-not simply "millions of worms thrown on top of the plastic".

By the time she was 13, her company was worth millions of dollars with the invention of a super-sweet treat that could save kids' teeth, instead of destroying them.

Companies spend millions hiring top business people.

Frogs living near brightly lit highways suffer nocturnal light levels that are as much as a million times brighter than normal, throwing nearly every aspect of their behavior out of joint, including their nighttime breeding choruses.

Humans produce more than 300 million tons of plastic every year.

In colonies that range in size from a few hundred to tens of millions, they organize their lives with a clear division of labor.

In the United States alone, over 100 million cell-phones are thrown away each year.

Now the ans' corporation makes more than $20 million each year.

On average, each of the two million big stones weighed about as much as a large pickup truck.

Over 300 years its population grew gradually from 800 people to 8 million.

Sarah was told that she could be Britain's new supermodel earning a million dollars in the new year.

Some language experts believe that 10000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 1200 languages between them.

Sports team owners spend millions of dollars attracting top talent.

Tell the person you're sorry and explain that you have a million things to do and then ask if the two of you can talk at a different time.

The bone structure of our ancestors developed for millions of years to support a creature that walked on all fours and has a relatively small head.

The Chinese ministry of agriculture finds that between 2005—when the government started a soil-testing program that/which gives specific fertilizer recommendations to farmers—and 2011, fertilizer use dropped by 7.7 million tons.

The instant view of water on both levels helped sell these $10 million houses.

The letter ended with a personal request: "Boy, on my next birthday, just tell me to wake up and get going, because I will have one less year to do things and there are ten million things waiting to be done."

The site now has more than one million members in more than one hundred thirty-five countries.

Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, lived in constant fear of meat-eating animals.

Wang collected more than 7 million abandoned bricks of different ages.

The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years - so why shouldn't we? Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.

As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia.

In another case, American archaeologists Rene Million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.

The London agents Stirling Ackroyd recently identified enough sites for half a million houses in the London area alone，with no intrusion on green belt.

This allows the TSA wants to enroll 25 million people in PreCheck.

If everything was going so well, then why did over 17 million people vote for Brexit, despite the warnings about what it could do to their country’s economic prospects?.

The data of an individual there gains its value only when it is compared with the data of countless millions more.

6 million patients In 2015 on the basis of a vague agreement which took far too little account of the patients' rights and their expectations of privacy.

Already, since 2010, drought and insects have killed over 100 million trees in California, most of them in 2016 alone, and wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres.

Between 1908 and 1915, about 7 million people arrived while about 2 million departed.

Biologists estimate that as many as 2 million lesser prairie chickens一-a kind of bird living on stretching grasslands - once lent red to the often grey landscape of the mid-western and southwestern United States.

However, Obamacare has allowed more than 12 million people to either get insurance through Medicaid or the exchanges.

If everything was going so well, then why did over 17 million people vote for Brexit, despite the warnings about what it could do to their country's economic prospects?

In another case, American archaeologists Rene million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.

In the U.S., it has infected more than one million people, and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations.

It is true that CEO pay has gone up-top ones may make 300 times the pay of typical workers on average, and since the mid-1970s CEO pay for large publicly traded American corporations has, by varying estimates, gone up by about 500% The typical CEO of a to

More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those initial doses were of the Flumist nasal spray type, which is not recommended for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties, hear

That's only a small share of the total acreage that could benefit, about half a million acres in all, so it will be vital to prioritize areas at greatest risk of fire or drought.

The London agents Stirling Ackroyd recently identified enough sites for half a million houses in the London area alone, with no intrusion on green belt.

The number of adults doing weekly sport did rise, by nearly 2 million in the run-up to 2012—but the general population was growing faster.

The TSA wants to enroll 25 million people in PreCheck.

These concerns aren't misplaced, Employment in manufacturing has fallen from 17 million in 1970 to 12 million in 2015.