Large numbers

Usage examples of millions.

Think of the many millions of dollars trickling into the local economy as a result of every corruption probegas for the undercover cars, videotapes for the surveillance cameras, file cabinets for the plea-bargain agreements.

The cane growers spent millions proclaiming that the penny-a-pound proposal was a new tax on consumersa complete lie, but it worked.

Haitians are shunned, yet millions of illegal Mexicans get work because Big Agriculture depends on them.

Forty grand is peanuts compared to the millions spent to subsidize auto races, tennis tournaments and Super Bowls.

This was a legitimate network program embracing the legend of the mutant barracuda and beaming it into millions of households.

They passed the biggest tax increase in state history, set up a lottery, and agreed to spend millions more on prisons, indigent health care and water cleanup.

Herald series about pet projects that give away millions of taxpayer dollars.

It costs millions more to execute a man than it does to lock him away forever.

Agents say some of the bogus deals were used to launder millions in dirty Medicare money.

And with millions of absentee ballots pouring in, it would be hard for our local scammers to steal an election.

For example, the city for years failed to collect millions of dollars in overdue lease payments.

South Dade residents have only lost millions of dollars to swindlers, licensed and unlicensed, who have taken the money and left the houses in shambles.

To use millions in tax money to prop up a private sports enterprise is reckless.

Since then, the loophole has been enlarged to funnel millions to pro teams that are already here, but have threatened to defect.

In no region is the credo more religiously followed than South Florida, which has become so urbanized and perilous that tourists stay away by the millions, and longtime residents bail out in droves.