What is "a million"

Usage examples of "a million".

He wants to add my business to his string, he wants to THE BOAT OF A MILLION YEARS 281 end every independent house in the city, we're to do his will and pay him his tribute.

I have to learn there's no funeral by reading it in the paper like a million other.

And just as our Dark ends with the passage of time in a New Sun, so the greater Dark ends at the shores of a million million stars.

There's a star system, Gods' Doom it's called in the story: A million years ago, it was in the Transcend.

Since there had been much snow this year, there was moisture in the ground, and from it sprang a million flowers, gold and blue and brown and red.

We have developed from the geocentric cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears, through the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, to the modern picture in which the earth is a medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy, which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe.

This would be rather difficult, however: the black hole would have the mass of a mountain compressed into less than a million millionth of an inch, the size of the nucleus of an atom!

Thor, if I were asked to name any mariner in the world who could bring a million-tonner into the Europoort, it would be you.

That pinpoint of incandescence must be a White Dwarf - one of those strange, fierce little stars, no larger than the Earth, yet containing a million times its mass.

We had to aim for an audience of about a hundred million-give or take a million, as General Turgidson would say.

Why would Armstrong have paid a million francs for a Faberg~ egg, delivered it to a Swiss bank, and left less than an hour later, empty-handed?

The pilot may think he has any one of a million reasons why he has decided to stop and pick you up.