Officially, it’s the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, but to the thousands who have trained there and the millions who have read about it, it is Star City. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was no evidence that hydrogen ions had charged around Edlefsen’s “rather sketchy” apparatus at all, much less at any appreciable fraction of 1 million electron volts. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If there are millions of civilizations distributed more or less randomly through the Galaxy, the distance to the nearest is about two hundred light-years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Various human species had been prowling and evolving in Afro-Asia for 2 million years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Professors could only envy the millions pocketed by radio entrepreneurs from the discoveries of those pioneers of electromagnetism Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell, who had claimed no patents and earned nothing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She acts like this isn’t something she’s already told me a million times. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Essentially the same line of reasoning tells us that the nearly 200 million Bantu people, now flung over much of the map of Africa, arose from Cameroon and Nigeria. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you help Corey with the fondant. He’s cutting out moons and stars, so super simple, but there are a million of them.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

After the first bend in the river, we passed a shallow island made of millions of white pebbles. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The odds of winning the lottery were one in three hundred million. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Ivanito shouts at the sky, talking to a million people at once. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eddie, you’re going to be under incredible pressure when you take the million dollar shot. People will be screaming and waving banners. You know Finkle’s going to try to ice you.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

If I had lain there for a few million miles more than I did, the knackery of the ant nest would have disassembled Finn Easton and turned him into all sorts of useful ant products. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He keeps picturing it: an hour from now, millions and millions of TVs across America simulcasting his face, his voice, June’s words, Henry at his side. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And yet, by the 1770s, the 1.75 million North Americans were actually drinking even more tea than the five to six million English. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure you want to do this? Even five million isn’t going to last forever.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Think of that distance: fourteen billion times all those hundreds of millions of miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Grandma Sands must have seen The Wizard of Oz a million times because every time she laughed it sounded just like that Wicked Witch of the West. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s not. Cockroaches have been around, like, three hundred and fifty million years, and people haven’t even been here six,” said Gregor. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad came back with a million numbers scribbled all over a pad of paper. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, it also sat on twenty-four million tons of anthracite. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred sixty million years ago, Antarctica was part of the supercontinent Gondwana, which also included South America, Africa, and Australia. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But if you put a few thousand volts on the tube and built up to a million volts on the particles, the glassware would survive, and the particles would accelerate. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes, the colored people. He gave over five million dollars to colored schools.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The distance through the wormhole might be only a few million miles even though earth and Alpha Centauri are twenty million million miles apart in ordinary space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it should be, and he came to London, with his teeming millions.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 2013, a few months after this First Friday party took place, Twitter announced that users were sending 400 million tweets per day. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Max had married Valerie back a million years ago, it seemed like, at Miracle School, where she worked as a potion ladler. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the lamp from my desk and pull back my arm, ready to slam it into my reflection in the mirror so they can both shatter into a million pieces. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Are you aware that each year forty-five million turkeys are killed for Thanksgiving? Not to mention the twenty-two million at Christmas.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Nine trillion, nine hundred ninety-nine billion, nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine,” recited Milo breathlessly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

As a nation it fell, when a million of its healthiest citizens were sold into slavery, but its language and traditions did not. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The not so hopeful news is that there seems to be a new war about every other week and millions have died since the charter was signed. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was watching something I’d seen a million times— The Wizard of Oz. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I only slept till around nine o'clock because a million people started coming in the waiting room and I had to take my feet down. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Our fun at the movies seems like a million years ago instead of just a few weeks. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Holding his hand was a girl with blood-red hair and a million cuts on the side of her face, her eyes as wide as his. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There, underneath the words Author Victoria Valence, was a photo of V. The woman without any words had written millions of them. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In 1956 nearly a million acres were sprayed in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, and New York. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She always walks with me down the halls chattering a million miles a minute. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

What Netscape did was bring a new killer app—the browser—to this installed base of PCs, making the computer and its connectivity inherently more useful for millions of people. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Radium emitted alpha particles at a meager 7.6 million electron volts and beta rays—that is, electrons—at only 3 million volts. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I'd planned for a million contingencies: Her at home, him at home, both of them at home, and this is the one I knew would be the best scenario for me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The rocks in Tule Lake were volcanic and old—supposedly formed two and a half million years ago. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It has already cost at least ten million lives, with the likelihood that the ultimate number of human casualties will vastly exceed the deaths in the Second World War. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their stingers are coiled like harpoons, millions of invisible weapons just waiting. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The light from Seed Collector reflected and rebounded off the million angles. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I mean, I am being trusted to carry the weight of millions of people’s voices, right? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The earliest men and women, 2.5 million years ago, had brains of about 36 cubic inches. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty- seven millions, or than a hundred and forty-five millions. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In Rutherford’s experiment, the alpha-particles had energies of millions of electron volts. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around, and there must have been a million people in the audience. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I would get a job here and after a few years would be sent up and down the streets with millions strapped to my arms, a trusted messenger. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, those millions of African Americans who had not migrated became subject to increased discrimination and acts of terror on the part of white southerners. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And of course the ruins were very large; finding seven people in what had once been a city of millions was no simple matter. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Although Homo erectus, the stage reached around 1.7 million years ago, was close to us modern humans in body size, its brain size was still barely half of ours. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Had she not already appeared in the Feelytone News— visibly, audibly and tactually appeared to countless millions all over the planet? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laying aside the article, he sketched out a linear accelerator to drive protons to a million volts, the first major step toward satisfying Ernest Rutherford’s demand for 10 million volts. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The number of black holes may well be greater even than the number of visible stars, which totals about a hundred thousand million in our galaxy alone. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What I do with million dollar? I make you many skirt, that what. You may as well keep money and buy skirt. That save me some time.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But when families have spent a million years making nine in the hope of saving one, they cannot stop making nine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cold War was over, and America, in the eyes of its leaders and in the view of millions of people around the world, had won. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, at the first sight of my phone’s shattered screen, my heart had splintered into a million pieces. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

One of millions, a single tally mark, worth no more or less than any of the others. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A bluefin tuna ain’t a whale, but still it’s way bigger than me, and a million times stronger, pound for pound. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We had hiked 500 miles, a million and a quarter steps, since setting off from Amicalola. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, we’re here for six million years,” sighed Milo, “and I don’t see any way to escape.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The molasses wrapped itself around Carmen’s legs, like millions of powerful snakes dripping with slime. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

"And whoever makes the most money wins it all, the whole two hundred million dollars." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bribes, which would undoubtedly have been gleaned from the enormous resources of the church in Alexandria, were said to include some 1,500 pounds of gold—worth about sixteen million dollars in 2007. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: Would you jump out of that plane with an umbrella for a hundred million dollars? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you felt that millions of others experienced life as deeply as you, but differently, you’d see that what you’re doing doesn’t help. Something of a more fundamental nature. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

How many times does a person write his name in a lifetime—a million? The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He gave a million dollars in seed money and hired an attorney to draw up papers for Partners in Health and its corresponding sister organization in Haiti, Zanmi Lasante. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The lake was surveyed, its volume determined, and the insecticide applied in such great dilution that for every part of chemical there would be 70 million parts of water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She reached under the desk and pulled out another thick book called Standard Highway Mileage Guide and turned to a page that had a million numbers and city names on it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was a soft effulgence in the east The moon was coming up, and its mystic shimmer was casting a million lights across the distant restless water. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she left, I stayed in my room for about four million miles—two days—with the shades drawn and my phone turned off. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The skeleton of our primate ancestors developed for millions of years to support a creature that walked on all fours and had a relatively small head. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I realized that I was outside, on a beautiful clear night, with a million stars twinkling above me, sitting on a bench next to Manuel. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Red ants cover the ground, and millions of gnats hover over the river. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Yet together they forced millions of people to sit up and take notice. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a steal at $2.5 million, but with the glut of rigs on the domestic market there weren’t any takers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Muslims are not sun-worshipers. We pray facing the East to be in unity with the rest of our 725 million brothers and sisters in the entire Muslim world.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than a quarter of a million people come to that museum every week. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t matter! It’s our money. If we want to spend a million dollars on a concert, we can!” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

And on our other side, the canal water was choked with millions of the confetti seeds. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Even from this height, I should’ve heard the noise of the city—millions of people bustling around, thousands of cars and machines—the hum of a huge metropolis. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The full edition of his speeches runs to eight volumes and more than four million words. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The world closed its doors, and six million Jews were slaughtered. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But really it is far away—nearly a quarter of a million miles from earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They let my sister pierce her ear a million times.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

At anything like our present rate of technical progress, an advanced civilization millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bush baby or a macaque. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But its army was badly equipped and Russia lost nearly two million lives, fighting mainly against Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Atoms are very small—one hundred million of them end to end would be as large as the tip of your little finger. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that she was no longer an employee of Finkle Foods, I could enter the contest for the million dollar shot. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, we have to walk about a million miles through the rain to get to the school, but I guess those cowboy hats are good for something after all. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“There weren’t many of our people left by 1876,” Grandpa Nyles explained, “compared to the sheer numbers of whites. There were probably twenty thousand Lakota. At the same time, there were twenty-five million white people.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Ben had said, “How many million cousins does Red have?” but the opportunity for speech had died a swift death. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark shrugged and took a seat on the floor—the same spot where he’d fallen asleep at some point a million years ago, it seemed. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Like millions of Americans, Gold had been laid off from his job. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Lawrence was thinking about 100 million or even 200 million volts, not Chadwick’s mere 60 million or 70 million. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Because a grain of sand is a moment of creation, and the universe has taken millions of years to create it. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the Great Depression, which began in late 1929, businesses across the United States closed down, putting millions of people out of work. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The Rad Lab budget for 1946 and beyond climbed to more than $2 million a year—not including construction of the new machines. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This happened around 600 million years ago, at the beginning of the Paleozoic era, and accounts for the sudden abundance of marine fossils of all kinds in the record of this period. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly millions of Americans gave up bread and other carbohydrates and started eating mainly meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t send Billy out for ice cream or strawberries, since the atmosphere outside the dome was cyanide, and the nearest strawberries and ice cream were millions of light years away. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she’d had a million dollars to bet on the odds of each answer, she would have put it all on a or b. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Charlotte had a million thoughts running through her mind: How much time do we have left? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The broken-down street before them seemed a million miles wide and a million miles long. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Millions and millions of dollars just for naming her name. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

To help them make sense of a number like six million, they set out to collect six million paper clips. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Belet and I jumped behind a car as the street was filled with millions of shards of razor-sharp glass. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A million machines were sold that year, and by 1989 two million new machines had gone into operation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all his complaining, he nurtured that chain from the very first links all the way to six million. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The bulk of this—191 million acres, spread over 155 parcels of land—is held by the U.S. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It would burn more than six million tons of coal each year to make up to eight million tons of steel and employ more than 30,000 workers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He reports that three million people have left the city during the past two hours. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

For millions of Americans, concerned that excess drinking of alcoholic beverages had become a national epidemic destroying thousands of families, it was indeed a cause for celebration. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“A shooting star that fell a million years ago.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Compton’s report of the Schenectady meeting to Bush asserted firmly the practicality of building a “fission bomb of superlatively destructive power” and of separating isotopes on an industrial scale for no more than $100 million. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the harshest conditions of all were faced by the millions of Jewish people who lived in Eastern Europe. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Humans first evolved in East Africa about 2.5 million years ago from an earlier genus of apes called Australopithecus, which means ‘Southern Ape’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen it happen a million times already, kids caught out there in one way or another—killed, imprisoned, shipped off to distant relatives. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And now the canister, oh God, he shuddered, millions of metal balls whirring through the air like startled quail, murderous quail, and now for the first time there was screaming, very bad sounds to hear. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“TODD HEWITT!!” we hear from what sounds like a million miles away. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

My hands started to sweat and my stomach felt like it had a million knots in it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Had the revolving $24 million line of credit over at the First National Bank of Midland truly been a good thing after all? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fallback plan is yet another forced march, this one to the city of Danville, where more than a million rations are supposed to await. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A million times I asked myself what I could do to save myself, and there were no answers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We certainly will not be unmindful of the possibilities of discoveries of military value in the energy range above one hundred million volts.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They sure as hell weren’t going to give me five million dollars, or leave me alive to tell the media how IOI had blackmailed me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve read The Awakening a million times, but I find it comforting. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The millisecond that passed while I waited for Marcus to come on the line felt like a million years. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

What do you do with all these millions of people that have been in prison and been released? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In another two million years, geologists like to joke, Yellowstone will be producing French fries for McDonald’s, and the people of Billings, Montana, will be stepping around geysers. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Design an appropriate program which models the supermarket situation with its various constraints and instruct the computer to run through the program a few million times to see how often different outcomes result. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He beamed and asked a million questions as I described every detail of the tryouts to him in the car. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I could tell her mind was going a million miles an hour. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A million questions rush through her head and she cannot properly articulate any of them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Family’s got money like you wouldn’t believe. Millions and millions. Course it’s about as new as it comes, but a buck’s a buck, know what I mean?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And many millions of them died, but to those that were left it was nothing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The Chattahoochee is part of four million acres—6,000 square miles—of federally owned forest stretching up to the Great Smoky Mountains and beyond and spreading sideways across four states. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Over the past 100 million years as it has drifted north toward Asia, its leading edge has sunk by some six hundred feet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Up close, the waistcoat under his suit jacket is a lush gold and has about a million buttons on it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Some 25 million Americans look to fishing as a major source of recreation and another 15 million are at least casual anglers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He tested a piece of pitchblende, the principal ore of uranium, and found it to be 700 million years old–very much older than the age most people were prepared to grant the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was already about a million degrees outside. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

In constant dollars, the Park Service budget today is $200 million a year less than it was a decade ago. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He’d also been convicted of fraud for a scam in which he got an obituary of himself published, then sued the newspaper for libel and damages up to $100 million. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The place was packed. He’s a very famous technology prophet. His TED Talk, ‘Our Brilliant Tomorrow,’ has been watched nearly two million times online.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking about the million times Dad told me to ignore it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I remember Julia’s picture, the one that will be worth a million dollars. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Creatures that communicated for tens of millions of years have now effectively been silenced. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on the sugar islands, while more than two million people were brought over from Africa, there were only 670,000 at emancipation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

While millions across the world struggle with illiteracy, poverty, violence and war, let us remember that we have the power, determination and creative minds to help fight and eliminate those social problems. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Twenty million Montags running, running like an ancient flickery Keystone Comedy, cops, robbers, chasers and the chased, hunters and hunted, he had seen it a thousand times. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bobby denied the very existence of Auschwitz, refusing to acknowledge that more than one million people had been murdered there, Laszlo told him about relatives who’d been exterminated in concentration camps. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My arms break out in a million goose bumps. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This made her laugh, even though she’d said it a million times already, so Virgil wasn’t sure how she could still think it was funny. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

If you put a million volts into a vacuum tube, you could be sure only of blasting the tube to bits. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He’s right. 7TH juror: The odds are a million to one. 8TH JUROR: It’s possible. 4TH JUROR: But not very probable. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are now two million light-years from home. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To get fifteen million of us here to make us his slaves, on the way he murdered one hundred million! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cooksey can, which was the key to a near doubling of energy to 6 million volts, worked almost flawlessly from the moment of its installation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“It wouldn’t have occurred to him; as he said, never in a million years.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Twenty million more people had the security of health insurance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In 1980 in the United States, it took twenty-five jobs to generate one million dollars in manufacturing output. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

At the minimum, it meant a grant of $1.5 million from the foundation alone. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Smugglers earned millions overnight, at the cost of everyone else. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In four years of fighting, nearly eight million Soviet soldiers and twenty million civilians died. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Pentagon, for its part, has given away military intelligence and millions of dollars in firepower to state and local agencies willing to make the rhetorical war a literal one. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Why, twenty-two million black people should tomorrow give a dollar apiece to build a skyscraper lobby building in Washington, D.C. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many years Keith Waterhouse operated an Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe in the Daily Mirror and then the Daily Mail, cheered on by literally millions of readers. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Would a society a million years in advance of us be interested in colonization or interstellar spaceflight? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew something was up with me, but from her face, I can tell that in a million years she wouldn’t have guessed this. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, he could walk the streets and fear nothing, because there were millions like him, coming soon, now, to power. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Despite these drawbacks, Welles jumped at the chance to reach millions of people with his own dramatic productions. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You’ve just cost us millions of dollars in advertising revenue, early bird.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In 1936 the federal government had spent $33 million on research and development, accounting for 15 percent of the $218 million advanced by all sources, including industry, academia, and philanthropic foundations. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I’m so busy thinking about what I’d do with the million dollars that I don’t notice Angel marching over to our table. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Slipping between millions and billions or between billions and trillions should in this sense be equally funny, but it isn’t, because we too often lack an intuitive feeling for these numbers. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because we aren’t even through this giant electronic gate yet and I feel like my real life is already a million miles away. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The volcano grew up seven to ten million years ago, producing fierce eruptions and explosions of ash, which repeatedly wiped out the forests that grew on its slopes, until it attained a tremendous height. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Marina was two years old, in 1914, Europe plunged into World War I. For the next four years, most of Europe’s young men fought, and millions died, on the battlefields of France and Belgium. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In this photograph there are about a million stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between 1920 and 1940, the population of southern California nearly tripled, as about 2 million people arrived from across the United States. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“It is fluid, ever changing. A single drop of rain is inconsequential, but one million drops of rain creates...” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Thinking of Lola made Virgil sick and nauseous, like there were a million tears deep inside of him that wanted to come out. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She could go for a walk, of course, but she’d walked every foot of the island a million times. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Even if we change the probability to one in a million for such a predictive dream, we’ll still get huge numbers of them by chance alone in a country the size of the United States. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaughter of six million Jews would have meaning only on the day a Jewish state was established. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In this town, if you need somebody who can count up to six million, I’m your man. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Howard was worth millions, lived in supreme luxury, and enjoyed the devotion of friends and the admiration of the public. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Any of you boys made your million yet?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also always took longer for me to get ready after being in the pool, because my darker skin looks a million times better with lotion to keep it from getting ashy. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And then there were all the millions of people in all the many wars throughout history and throughout the world, and all the millions of people with loved ones killed by millions of other people. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nina would serve her time and return to Ravka four million huge richer, never giving him another thought. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I try to remember that as the sky darkens and the lights of Scottsdale and Phoenix brighten the earth—millions of lights for millions of people. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The sun came out, suddenly, so strong and full that it made him dodge as from a blow; a million bits of sparkle pained his eyes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

That chunk of coal was once a green plant, a fern or reed that lived one million years ago, or maybe two million, or maybe one hundred million. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In 1916, before the United States entered the war, American packers exported 70 million tons of canned beef, 262 million tons of fresh beef, and more than 500 million tons of bacon. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I never in a million years thought I’d have my very own crafting room. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

A man on the dole must be ready in case another man on the dole brings up Hitler or Mussolini or the terrible state of the Chinese millions. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A million thoughts whir through my brain, but I can’t speak. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“If you stay on task I’m sure you can get a million done on time.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laboratory analyses of their tissues revealed high concentrations of DDT — as much as 46 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The nation’s corner theaters hosted 85 million people a week for 25-cent viewings of an endless array of cheery musicals and screwball comedies. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s followed by a shriek like a million forks on ceramic plates. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And there were ten million little crystals shining on every single branch of every single tree, down to the littlest twig. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The storm hit without warning, killing about seven hundred people, damaging thousands of homes, and toppling millions of trees. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Look magazine wanted to compete against its chief publishing rival, Life, which had paid a half million dollars for the exclusive rights to the story of the Mercury 7 project. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I feel a surge of pride—until I remember what the number six million really represents. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The al-Muflehs were a wealthy family in Amman, Jordan, a city of two million, set among nineteen hills and cooled by dry desert breezes. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Taken collectively, they are not simply twelve million people; in reality they constitute a separate nation, stunted, stripped, and held captive within this nation, devoid of political, social, economic, and property rights. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All you could hear were the sounds of a million feet smacking on the trail and the sound of a million people trying to catch their breath. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

We’ve been working on this chain for weeks, churning out millions of links on our journey to six million. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“It ain’t as good as seeing her beat to a million pieces.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I told Mom I didn’t think Eric would lend me a million dollars to buy some land in Texas, and even if he would, I wouldn’t borrow it from him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And that was worth a million and a half bad names. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to radioactivity the Earth could be–and self-evidently was–much older than the twenty-four million years Kelvin’s calculations allowed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I called you a million times. Why didn’t you ever answer? I was hoping you had your phone back.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Buddy’s going to make like a million bucks.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A million different questions pop into my mind. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

When I'm upstairs getting ready for a party I never in a million years thought I’d be going to, I hear someone knock at the bathroom door. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Estimates of online gamers in the United States alone run as high as 15 to 20 million people. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I dropped it, it would break into a million little replicas of itself, and if I pushed them near each other, they would fuse, without a crack, into one whole again. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

If Mummy’s ignoring my art made me feel invisible, Sahil’s recognition was like being surrounded by a million neon lights. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s been two weeks since we met at the wedding, and weirdly, it feels like a million years ago, but also yesterday. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The checks that exist in nature are such that out of the millions of young produced by each pair only enough, on the average, survive to adulthood to replace the parent fish. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In that relatively short period, more than twenty-five million newcomers poured into the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The federal government came up with $42 million to evacuate the town. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Before moving to Hope Springs, the idea of Arletta Paisley within spitting distance would’ve caused me to fly into a million pieces. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Four or five or six or a million heartbeats roll by. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her tours of the United States and Canada alone took her to more than 600 cities, where she performed to over 6 million listeners in more than 1500 auditoriums. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

We live in a galaxy that is about one hundred thousand light-years across and is slowly rotating; the stars in its spiral arms orbit around its center about once every several hundred million years. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conant, unhappy with his scientists’ inability to settle on a single separation process, penciled out a proposal to spend $870 million for four individual pilot plants. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For instance, in 1519 Cortes landed on the coast of Mexico with 600 Spaniards, to conquer the fiercely militaristic Aztec Empire with a population of many millions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She feared that the wind might upend her and she would crash to earth and break into a million small splinters. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

George Pullman continued to cut jobs and wages without reducing rents, even though his company’s treasury was flush with over $60 million in cash. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

One example of the use of the weak anthropic principle is to “explain” why the big bang occurred about ten thousand million years ago—it takes about that long for intelligent beings to evolve. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The CIA had developed this suicide device at the cost of $3 million. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our chains grow faster and faster, until it seems as if we can churn out our six million in one day. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

That wouldn’t happen until February 1998, when it would hit the charts and stay there, through 48 printings and 2.5 million copies. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I guess other people—probably millions of them—besides Brian and me have seen that alien movie. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

By 1935, it numbered nearly four million members—nearly 50 percent of all German youth, age ten to eighteen. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kluck has specifically told us about a million times that no one is allowed to touch the new machine. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

About ten million years ago, the Sun emerged from the Gould Belt complex of the Orion Spiral Arm, which is now a little less than a thousand light-years away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The balance showed over one million dollars, but there was also a red banner that told him to contact his financial institution. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I tell them, they’ll just give a million reasons why it’s a bad idea.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But with millions of puzzle pieces being tossed up into the air, it really did stand to reason that the occasional one would come down in the right place. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

But if we had a million dollars she wouldn’t need her job back. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A rabbit, it has been calculated, has something like 100 million olfactory receptors. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By his own standards, Bobby was Champion of the World once again, and $3.5 million richer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The remaining one-third—49 million acres, or an area roughly twice the size of Ohio—is available for logging. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

If I missed the shot on purpose, for the rest of my life I would be thinking that I gave up the chance to make an easy million dollars. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lucy the elevator asks me a million questions I don’t have answers for, but she goes quiet once we arrive at the lobby of the Department of Supernatural Investigations. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It collected hundreds of millions of dollars from some of the world’s largest insurance companies on falsified claims for industrial accidents and natural disasters inside North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I had done this a million times in the swimming hole in Bybanks. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It had almost a quarter of a million miles on the clock, and smelled faintly of bourbon, tobacco, and more strongly of something that reminded Shadow of bananas. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Werner feels sympathy for the two million French prisoners of war that the Nazis have forced into labor in Germany. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the satellite stayed in orbit for more than five months after that—a lonely and most certainly dead dog circling and circling overhead while the earth traveled about 240 million miles through space. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

And here in the city, there were thousands—no, millions—of them. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Many valuable wild plants yielding food prized by millions of people, such as oaks sought for their edible acorns in many parts of the world, remain untamed even today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It watched the world from millions of eyes, listened from millions of ears. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Atlantis: Named after a boat that sailed more than a half million miles in more than 30 years of ocean research. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

When we looked at beef ranching, we learned how grasses and herbivores formed a partnership over millions of years of evolution. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

After today, when the caps have been thrown and the parties have ended, we will all begin our journey into the next half million hours of our lives. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Imagine parting with all those millions for the promise of a wish. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Now that the pile of rocks had turned out to be worth millions of dollars, he said, “everybody wants to get in here and get some of this money.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Besides, with a million bucks you don’t need a job. You can buy a whole company and hire people to do the jobs for you.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had about a million dead person jokes. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The kitchen didn’t seem a million miles away, and he made it there without incident. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“A million things,” said Kohl, “but I can’t think of any of ’em.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Meanwhile, the cascade effect that has left more than twenty-three million people without running water shows no sign of abating. For more, we take you to Donavan Lee in Silverlake.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I would never in a million years tell her it was Aibileen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Tendai saw, in a distant, shadowy way, the country of Zimbabwe with its millions of souls. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

If that counted for anything, then Africa enjoyed an enormous advantage: at least 5 million more years of separate protohuman existence than on any other continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are a million threads from the past intertwined to make the ropes and cables of the modern world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Yellowstone eruption of two million years ago put out enough ash to bury New York State to a depth of sixty-seven feet or California to a depth of twenty. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

As she rushed into the forest, her glittering cape lit up the air around her, and a million tiny stars swirled and grew in the dark velvet fabric. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help the tears that broke my face into a million bits, which made her kneel and hold me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was the first of millions and millions of steps to come. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

A nearby galaxy might be a million light-years away. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And they would provide him with money—over a million US dollars. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

That beginning, he reasoned, may have lasted "millions upon millions of years." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The land area of the planet is a little less than two hundred million square miles. The percentage is ... so small as to be negligible.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I tell him about a million times I love him as much as I love my ma. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, to be honest, five days is almost nine million miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

David Rockefeller, a member of the Harvard College Class of 1936 and longtime University benefactor, has pledged $100 million to increase dramatically learning opportunities for Harvard undergraduates through international experiences and participation in the arts. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I’ll bet you could never in a million years guess this one. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And the 22 million blacks realize increasingly that physically, politically, economically, and even to some degree socially, the aroused black man can create a turmoil in white America’s vitals—not to mention America’s international image. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The usual audience for The Mercury Theatre on the Air was about only a tenth of the thirty-five million people who tuned to The Chase and Sanborn Hour. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“These tissues enter a pipeline of millions of other samples,” he said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They had come millions of miles for this outing—to fish. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell she had a million questions she wanted to ask me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The township was a city unto itself, with a population of nearly one million. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In less than a minute the universe is a million billion miles across and growing fast. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I told her of the anger and hatred pent-up inside millions of blacks, destroying their minds. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe not for a few days. But once there is no government and ten million starving people in Kinshasa? The first thing that happened in ’94 was they tried to eat the zoo animals. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“For instance”—I hold my thumb and pointer finger ten centimeters apart—“the lake holds millions of tiny, winged fish.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The side of the square gets 12 million bits, and the diagonal gets a tad less than 16,970,563 bits. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Who in their right mind would pass up two million dollars? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She never in a million years would have figured out how to decode James’s paragraph. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

For millions of others, about to lose one of their greatest enjoyments, it was hardly something to cheer about. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for medical science, artists or the poor? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A million ideas, but what do they mean? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Camila and Mya have visited me here a million times in the past decade, and they still can’t get from the lobby to my room without asking every person in the building for directions. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Everyone—the players, the announcers, the millions in the audience—can see me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lilienthal had been brooding all day over a pending decision by President Truman about expanding the nation’s nuclear arsenal, a $319 million proposition pushed assiduously by the Pentagon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then an unassuming voice rose from the middle of the room: “Half a million.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It is easy to forget that those “forces” are statistical summaries of the deeds of millions of men and women who act on their beliefs in pursuit of their desires. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Miao-Yao speakers live in dozens of small enclaves, all surrounded by speakers of other language families and scattered over an area of half a million square miles, extending from South China to Thailand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. But you have to admit, ten million would have made your job easier.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Carrying boxes up and down stairs wasn't going to earn me a million dollars. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You told me about a million times. It’s named after Eleanor Roosevelt.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Actually, they are more like rubber bands because they are under enormous tension, something like a million million million million tons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we also got something great—our paper chain, six million links long, which is all around us. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Hurry up, Joon! We are about to win twenty-three million dollars,” I shout on my way to the living room. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

If we didn’t have breakaway rims, the backboard would have shattered into a million pieces. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaning against the whirring soda machine, I think of the million times I wanted my mother to stop telling me what to do. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Around a million Americans saw combat or were frequently exposed to enemy fire. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I have heard Ms. Smith say this a million times, but never to me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

For example, the Ministry of Plenty’s forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at a hundred and forty-five million pairs. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, at the very center of our galaxy, sits a supermassive black hole that weighs as much as two-and-a-half million suns. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When you consider that more than 100 million Americans live within a day’s drive of the Appalachian Trail, it is hardly surprising that 2,500 sleeping spaces is sometimes not enough. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, didn’t you make a million dollars playing basketball? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ll call him tonight from the coast. There’s nothing to worry about. They can’t sue me for a half million for a letter I didn’t write.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back at him, a million questions in my eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It was worth tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars, and it was stolen!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Luke stared at the bedroom, fighting a million different impulses, each of which pulled him in a different direction. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I honestly don’t care if they give a million dollars to equal rights causes so the world can be better in the future. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

This insect infests about a third of Africa, posing a menace to human health and preventing the keeping of livestock in an area of some 4% million square miles of wooded grasslands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The sun was doing antics among the million specks of dust hanging between us and casting a brilliant, unstable pool of light on the floor. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five million dollars would set me up for life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The floor starts moving slowly from side to side, and I think if I move, I’m going to fall through and break into a million pieces. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it’s the age difference, or simply that Beetee is probably about a million times smarter than the rest of us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man pushed the pile of middle school debris into the corner, then pulled out a million keys, flipping through them like pages of a book. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Without a doubt, and so have the countless millions who died before him.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A few million years ago, when human beings first evolved on Earth, it was already a middle-aged world, 4.6 billion years along from the catastrophes and impetuosities of its youth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Radio observations show two enormous clouds of hydrogen gas, enough to make millions of suns, plummeting out from the galactic core, as if a mild explosion happened there every now and then. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milk samples taken from the Wallers’ purebred Guernsey cows 48 hours later contained DDT in the amount of 14 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

You can buy millions of little decorated cups, with tiny saucers, for Arabic coffee and tea. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

An estimated one million soldiers, both men and women, fought and died to make these changes possible. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In a flash it’s airborne, then in my hand, and his face has broken into five million pieces of happiness. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“They’ve got millions, but they live like human beings. They don’t put on airs and strut. Mrs. Dalton believes that people should be that way.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There have been at least a dozen ice ages in the last two million years, each lasting about 100,000 years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Southern state court judges and all-white juries were all too willing to rule in favor of “defamed” local officials, and state authorities had won millions of dollars in judgments this way. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Tens of millions of years of faces in a living room in a place called Arizona. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He never understood the legal device that was used against him but what remained of the millions went intact to Ella Kaye. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The royalties would have run into the millions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Never in a million years would I have thought my mom would be the one to back down from anything, so I was completely shocked by what she had just said. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Aren’t you supposed to ask us if we would rather have a million dollars now or a penny doubled every day for a month? That’s the riddle math teachers like to give.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Above him, the interweaving branches seemed to split the sky into a million little pieces. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

My father said the Nazis had killed millions of Poles. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Getting five million dollars was not a burden. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine further that each of the 2.2 million Philadelphians is a letter to be delivered to the mailbox whose label corresponds to the number of hairs on his or her head. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the United States, with a population of two hundred and seventy-five million, that comes to one hundred and thirty-seven thousand intersexuals alive today. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His mom couldn't stop talking about the millions. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Evacuation orders were posted last night and millions of people in this region of East Prussia will now flee to me for help. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Skeeter, I have a million things to do today—” The panic is rising up in my throat. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He took a bus about 220 miles south to Jinan, a city of five million, and spent five days searching out more Korean churches. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I always knew it would be hard to get to six million links, but I never thought the reason would be the school board going cheapo on us! Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They would have a radius of only ten miles or so and a density of hundreds of millions of tons per cubic inch. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout Pakistan, more than two thousand people drowned, millions lost their homes, and seven thousand schools were destroyed. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A strange scenario: a small comet hits the Earth, as millions of them have, and the response of our civilization is promptly to self-destruct. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a million more they could hardly wait to get there and love it back. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, to be honest, he would have liked ten million dollars, too. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The absurdity of this reversal of fortune may not have struck millions in the industrialised world after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 as all that implausible. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Of all the kids in America, I was going to get the chance to take a shot worth a million dollars. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like millions of Americans caught in the Great Depression, she found herself adrift in the early 1930s, working odd jobs and searching for a sense of purpose. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They’re only interested in what happened a hundred million years ago. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Across the United States, millions of Americans were glued to their televisions for the evening news reports, and stunned at the savage fighting they saw on their screens. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At that very moment, more than a quarter million Chinese soldiers massed on the Chinese side of the Yalu, preparing a surprise attack in support of their Communist neighbor. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Langley put all available resources behind the $80 million project in 1960, putting the final pieces in place just before December 1960, the originally scheduled date for the first suborbital mission. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those might be worth millions someday. You never know.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

And there are millions more who feel predestination in ‘Thou shalt.’ East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at me the way she had a million times before—like I was nothing but a regret. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had burned brightly for millions of years and would soon become a supernova and burn out. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But deep down you come to suspect that you're yourself to blame, and you stand naked and shivering before the millions of eyes who look through you unseeingly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

About 80 percent of the country’s thirty million homes had a radio, about double those with a telephone. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Last year, the final tournament saw a total of three hundred million viewers. Three hundred million! Mr. Tanaka must be proud.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The image of the one hemlock tree among millions filled her mind’s eye and then faded. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

On February 6, 2006—a year and a week after he’d crossed the frozen Tumen River into China—Shin arrived in Hangzhou, a city of about six million in the Yangtze River Delta. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I’d watched with dismay as Republicans in Congress followed suit, fighting Barack’s every effort to stanch the economic crisis, refusing to support measures that would cut taxes and save or create millions of jobs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A hundred million crystallized polio viruses could cover the period at the end of this sentence. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped down onto the one hemlock among millions and came to rest. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The maximum concentration applied to the water was 1/so part per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Animals much like modern humans first appeared about 2.5 million years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Securities and Exchange Commission later said that those figures were “false and misleading,” in part because the sale price for the headquarters had been overvalued by as much as $40 million. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are millions of people living on the island. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Listen to this here. Mah New York Yankees have been sold to a sny-dee-kat for two million and eight hundred thousand dollahs. That there’s about enough to buy the whole state of Georgia.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the million people who lived in Soweto, there were no stores, no bars, no restaurants. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

First, the game sold millions of copies, and there are estimates that up to 3 million teenagers played it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night was clear, and I could see what must have been millions of stars. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once the lawyer had performed all the right rituals and pronounced all the necessary spells and oaths, millions of upright French citizens behaved as if the Peugeot company really existed. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I get home I feel like my soul has been shattered into a million pieces. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Chester knew they didn’t mean any harm—but he couldn’t get used to the idea that millions of eyes were staring at him. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since $5.5 million had been invested in their film project, they had a big incentive to remain on the mountain and undertake a summit attempt. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bruce thought the cave was worth at least five million, but his Realtor offered a reality check. schism. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That it was not the other way around is especially surprising, because Africa was the sole cradle of human evolution for millions of years, as well as perhaps the homeland of anatomically modern Homo sapiens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s lots of cool stuff you can buy with a million dollars,” Annie pointed out. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No, we’ve had that cat forever. A regular member of the family,” I say, feeling like I’m starring in a commercial for something I’d never eat in a million years. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Nobody will think of that, not in a million years! A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

According to theories, they don’t always erupt explosively but sometimes burst forth in a vast, continuous outpouring–a flood–of molten rock, such as with the Deccan Traps in India sixty-five million years ago. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The total loss to Hazleton ran into the millions of dollars. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After much hardship a few of our millions had arrived together at the capital. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, who had just said the word “hell,” was about a million miles from her witness for Christ at the present time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A reporter asked him about a supposed offer of $1 million for a match against Spassky in Las Vegas. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Think of the ten million, I repeat to myself. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By contrast, Spain and Portugal together had fewer than ten million inhabitants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then he leaned over toward Milo and whispered softly, “By the eight million two hundred and forty-seven thousand three hundred and twelve threads in my robe, I’ll say there are. Look here.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking about how my guts told me a million times to help Charlie. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And Arm understood that when you had ten million people jammed together in a city, you always had a few troublemakers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Forty- five million Americans would tune in to witness the ultimate success or failure of MR-3. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And then all of a sudden millions of stars blink above us, and Russ whispers, “I think the show has begun.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You gave me a brilliant son, and I have thanked you for him a million times. But you had to make him so brilliant?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I devein six hundred thousand million shrimp, and Dee chops broccoli and cauliflower into twelve million trillion perfect little trees. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

"I've seen a million articles about you in the papers. The new favorite. Your name is everywhere." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

If four out of five people were released from prisons, far more than a million people could lose their jobs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

By about half a million years ago, human fossils had diverged from older Homo erectus skeletons in their enlarged, rounder, and less angular skulls. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Those that opted not to leave about eight million uninsured people who live in poverty without any assistance at all. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In the United States, by contrast, voting disqualification upon release from prison is automatic, with no legitimate purpose, and affects millions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I bet that many of the one million people who were at Cape Kennedy to watch our launch were still caught in the post-launch traffic jam. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had my parents’ fight centered on Royal Rampling, the man who was suing my mother for fifty million dollars? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Its body twinkled like a million tiny revolving stars. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There was talk now among the directors of seeking a $10 million appropriation from Congress, but the only immediate solution was to reduce expenditures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It’s over a million dollars in Haitian gourdes, and my mother and I received that much and more from Matant Jo within a year for my tuition and living expenses. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Since the nineteenth century, millions of Germans had immigrated to the continent, and many maintained strong ties to their fatherland. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

By giving antibiotics to the millions of cattle in the U.S. we are actually breeding new superbacteria that can’t be killed by antibiotics. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

That’s when smallpox finally reached Rome, as the Plague of Antoninus, which killed millions of Roman citizens between A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Four million kruge, he told himself as he reloaded and found another enemy in his sights. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I nod without speaking, because if I speak, I’ll unleash the millions of questions I’m dying to ask. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was only September and next summer seemed a million years away. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are not six million Jews in all of Poland, my child.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sign us up for six million paper chain links. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Nearly 3 million copies have been sold worldwide. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet fossils attest to human presence in China for over half a million years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Females of all classes and races were part of the movement that made millions of Americans receptive to the idea of women voting. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“It was his opinion,” recalled Truman, “that such an invasion would cost at a minimum a quarter of a million American casualties.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Ferris, riding his wheel that day, looked down and gasped, “There must be a million people down there.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His parents were probably glad he was a million miles from their world. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

My mind couldn’t hold on to it, to the death of six million people. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Khalil drops the brush in the door and cranks up his stereo, blasting an old rap song Daddy has played a million times. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

If the forfeiture had been successful, it would have netted the law enforcement agencies about $5 million in assets. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The equivalent of twenty million books is inside the heads of every one of us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the average, the Sun and the planets spend forty million years in a spiral arm, eighty million outside, another forty million in, and so on. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But over the summer the virus underwent some strange transformation and over the next six months ended up killing between 20 and 40 million people worldwide. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If he loves you, he’ll make you feel like a million dollars.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Cane sugar had brought millions of Africans into slavery, then helped foster the movement to abolish the slave trade. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Few would openly argue that we should lock up millions of poor people just so that other people can have jobs or get a good return on their private investments. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But there are no trilobites alive today; there have been none for 200 million years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its eyes were glazed with hate as it hung in the air surrounded by churning water and a million diamond droplets of water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By the way,” he said, “they asked a million questions about your trip to Italy.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But a million years is a long time. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In a pure-oxygen environment, 16.7 million joules will be released for every kilogram of sugar used, releasing the explosive force of eight sticks of dynamite. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two are burning in Castaic, more than fifty miles west of us, threatening access to Castaic Lake—which millions from Los Angeles are trying to reach. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

One was a racketeer who controlled a crime syndicate worth $15 million a year. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That’s something Dana didn’t have to worry about on her big day: a vlogger in the audience waiting for her to make a mistake so he can blab about it to millions of followers. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Shine light on a million moving cubes and you only get a hazy, moving shadow, a molecular version of television static. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

These stars shine for ten million years or so, a period corresponding to only 5 percent of a galactic rotation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the way I realized it would a million times after. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Only 3 percent of Shenandoah’s two million annual visitors go more than a few yards into what is generously termed the backcountry. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It is my guilt that I educated the German youth for a man who committed murder by the millions.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of a million things I had done, and a million things I still wanted to do; I prayed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They generate tens of millions of dollars for the Osage, helping to fund their government, educational programs, and health-care benefits. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Yunghans, the librarian, just confirmed that Mr. Lemoncello is the top-secret benefactor who donated all the money to build the new public library. Five hundred million dollars!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Those two days together make more than a million bucks. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

For many of the millions of Americans who read the American Weekly every Sunday, it was an all too familiar expression—one they saw every morning when they glanced in the mirror. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I could have picked Judy Billings’s voice out of a million. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turtle read that again: two hundred million dollars. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair glittered with millions of dollars’ worth of gems. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It simply did not make sense for both sides to lose thousands if not millions of lives in a conflict that was unnecessary. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the government wants to hide somebody, there’s probably no place more isolated than my reservation, which is located approximately one million miles north of Important and two billion miles west of Happy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

His estate is estimated to be worth over two hundred million dollars. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you remember every word in this book, your memory will have recorded about two million pieces of information: the order in your brain will have increased by about two million units. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that was about a million years ago, before Missy’s dad got an important new job at the lumber company. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be giving that nasty cold of yours to about a million people all over the country!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tía Fermina and tía Estela sit across from me and tell me how much they’ve missed me, and the rest of the family crowds around me and asks a million questions: How is your mother? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Until Paul and Jim’s program took firm hold, Hiatt predicted the number of total TB deaths would climb well above two million. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And then, only a few million years ago, the first true humans emerged. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And letters poured into his house by the million from children begging him to pay them a visit. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that Coach Reed would ever say anything to me about that in a million million years. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Activities or illnesses whose safety indices are greater than 6 should be considered quite safe, being equivalent to less than one chance in a million per year. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spike hops out of bed, blond hair pointing in a million directions, throws a towel over her shoulders, and heads off to the bathroom in nothing but her boxers and a tank top. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Looking back, what enabled Netscape to take off was the existence, from the earlier phase, of millions of PCs, many already equipped with modems. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Each of the thirty-six cars weighed thirteen tons, for a total of just under one million pounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

About a million fingers pointed at the new kids and a million laughs almost knocked them over. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always remember the first time I held in my hand the bone of a creature that had walked the earth millions of years before. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

My skin is still raw and sore from surgery, but the area around my G-tube already looks about a million times better. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Hundreds, thousands, millions of them, and every one a life; and dogs to eat them, and cats too. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

This is the true length of human history; before that there were two million years of prehistory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Alex can feel a buzzing static electricity in London this morning, millions of voices murmuring about him and Henry and what might happen next. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Me neither. We’ll see if it lasts. While I’m in the habit, though, I just wanted to...Thanks for giving me another chance. I know I’ve had a million already.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Men in planes and tanks, or armed with guns, artillery, and advanced weapons, tore apart the bodies of millions of soldiers and civilians. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Did Tom Brown, as he took out $160 million in loans and signed promissory notes for $6.25 million without reading the paperwork? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After what seemed like a few million pictures, the wedding finally began. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care if it’s one dollar or a million,” Annie insisted. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, feel free to post your videos and make fun of me. But now you know the truth. At least our school is getting a couple million out of this.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Montez needed her and she was a million miles away. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was nearly the beginning of May, but still the icy water pierced Cole’s skin like millions of tiny needles. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Looming and bleak, folded in mist, guarded by a million screeching birds, it looked like some ancient fortress constructed by giants. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

If only we had seen it coming ... we might have been able to stop it, or at least slow it down; ... we might have been able to save at least a hundred million lives. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I could get through it, I'd find a million hiding places and maybe, just maybe, get away. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Indeed, thousands of squatters had already claimed nearly a million acres of land west of the mountains. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

There are a million things wrong with my face. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He calculated that the Earth was 89 million years old–an age that fit neatly enough with Kelvin’s assumptions but unfortunately not with reality. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Only then will millions of survivors like me hear loud and clear that our lives have value,” I said. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The avenging mouse swung the sword up high; a million lights flashed from its deadly blade as it struck. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

More than 2.5 million Jews fled for their lives to the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She ponders the transmigrations from the southern latitudes, the millions moving north. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just one of a million things that have bugged me for years about this kid. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

There we were, all five of us standing around a car with the temperature about a million degrees below zero and each and every one of us crying! “ ’top! ’top!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no doubt that the millions of people who subsequently became supporters of this campaign had no idea of precisely who Nelson Mandela was. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could have been born millions of years apart, but we were able to meet each other and fall in love. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

All those stars millions of light years away shilling down on me—me glued to a minor planet spinning around its own gigantic sum. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

In Dar es Salaam I was met by a crowd estimated at half a million. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all our organs, the brain has evolved, increasing in complexity and information content, over millions of years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge posted bail at two million and his boys ran down to court and paid it in cash. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

For example, a previously unknown fever termed O’nyong-nyong fever appeared in East Africa in 1959 and proceeded to infect several million Africans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The whining of the millions of insects intensified, rattling the windows overlooking the alley. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Imagine the largest concert crowd you’ve ever seen, a football field packed with a million fans. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As a result of the two laws, nearly eight million children donned the brown uniforms of the Hitler Youth in 1939. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

After her death in 1982, their value skyrocketed, with MoMA paying nearly two million to add one to its permanent collection. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was, in the current view, a thriving, stunningly diverse place, a tumult of languages, trade, and culture, a region where tens of millions of people loved and hated and worshipped as people do everywhere. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Instead, he turns into Deferential Store Owner like I’ve seen him do a million times to a million customers. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if someone would be holding Cinnamon’s head 60 million years from now. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Initially, he penciled out a construction budget of $500,000; by the end of the year, the budget for construction and ten years of operation looked more like $2 million. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The idea was to preserve the status quo where three million whites owned 87 percent of the land, and relegate the eight million Africans to the remaining 13 percent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Are you claiming that the Crown is three million gold pieces in debt?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Chicago might as well be a million miles away from Flint and Miss Hill might as well be a squashed, crunched-up mess in a washing machine when it came down to helping me now. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I thought how ironic it was that Jake’s telescope could see stars a million light-years away, but not the town it was in. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Dikoris were from the Nuba Mountains of central Sudan, an area the size of South Carolina, with more than a million people. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“You spent a million on this? While your family doesn’t have a house or a decent car.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You caused quite an explosion. I stared at the blank bronze screen. Half a million people evacuated? Injuries. Illness. What had I done? “The telkhines were scattered,” the god told me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Dancing's like walking down a busy high street or millions of other things. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The probability of all the gas molecules in our first box being found in one half of the box at a later time is many millions of millions to one, but it can happen. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know about Keisha, but I couldn’t answer that for a million dollars. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

What then drove forward the evolution of the massive human brain during those 2 million years? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop! Come back! You’ll be turned into a million tiny pieces!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I won the contest! I get to shoot the million dollar shot!” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The school counselor had told me a million times, “Count to ten, get control of your temper.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

For millions of years, the separate fragments of Pangaea had almost no communication. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

San Bernardino had just sixty thousand inhabitants, but millions of people passed through there every year. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

And there were still 5.5 million square miles untouched by man—an area twenty-five percent larger than the continent of Europe. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I walked past a million people with their mouths wide-opened and no sounds coming out. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But within less than one millionth of a sec ond, so many atoms would fission that the lump of uranium would blow itself apart with the force of millions of pounds of regular explosive. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continually revised his estimates downward, from a maximum of 400 million years, to 100 million years, to 50 million years, and finally, in 1897, to a mere 24 million years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Anticipating this, the company had set aside Sector One as the simulation’s designated business zone and began to sell and rent millions of blocks of surreal estate there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It’s about waking up surrounded by ten million fireflies, which is something I like to imagine. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My mom saw one at work and said she wished she had a million of them to put on every car in the world.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the outset, most of it came from Groves, who committed to supporting Lawrence’s laboratory at the level of more than $3 million a year. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s a million miles away from Ohio! How will I...? When will I...?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Our eating habits were formed over millions of years of evolution. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then, a million, ten million, a hundred million. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I keep seeing my sister plummeting down, like she did in the GoPro video and a million times before, bungee jumping and cliff diving with reckless abandon. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Chickens poisoned by aldrin used on a neighboring farm have passed on the chemical to their eggs; hens experimentally fed DDT laid eggs containing as much as 65 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A moment later a million pails of water emptied on us. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

At this point, the star is so dense that every teaspoon weighs hundreds of millions of tons. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Some stars may be surrounded by millions of lifeless and rocky worldlets, planetary systems frozen at some early stage in their evolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without human inventiveness, all of us today would still be cutting our meat with stone tools and eating it raw, like our ancestors of a million years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a crack between two of the largest boulders, something I’d probably passed by a million times, but... The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A good many people now have misgivings about the aerial distribution of lethal chemicals over millions of acres, and two mass-spraying campaigns undertaken in the late 1950’s have done much to increase these doubts. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

President Wilson was calling for thirteen million men, ages eighteen to forty-five, to enroll. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

This one slices me into millions of pieces. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Before, there were over a million U.S. and Saigon troops, and you failed,” Tho explained. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Today, the society called New Zealand is composed of 4.5 million Sapiens and 50 million sheep. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his wife had given millions to the clinic over the years. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of schools were home for vacation already, and there were about a million girls sitting and standing around waiting for their dates to show up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Five million cubic acres of water,” Thalia said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Water levels receded so deeply, the archaeologist Richardson Gill argued in 2000, that “starvation and thirst” killed millions of Maya. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Perhaps our remote descendants will call it the constellation of the radio telescope— although I suspect a million years from now the radio telescope will have become more obsolete than the stone spear is now. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much of that goes to feeding America’s 100 million beef cattle. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She was spinning the lock as if she had done so a million times before. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And two, the story of Aziz could have gone a million different ways. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Twenty years later, he raised his estimate of Indian deaths—and hence of the initial population—to forty million. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I bet Pittsburgh doesn’t even have a million actors. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

By 2002, according to the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, more than 34 million subscribers were using that network for web access, email, and other functions. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It spreads by means of spores, which are produced in the hundreds of millions in each canker. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think it’s love that makes her feel like a million dollars—but maybe the actual money he gives her for all those wigs and makeup and clothes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

That chunk of coal was once a green plant, a fern or reed that lived one million years ago, or maybe two million, or maybe one hundred million . All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And I'm trying to find one person on this island of millions. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Behind those medieval walls lay the bodies of a million insects, and under its floors the cooling corpses of spiders and mice. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“It is now rushing through the air above our heads in a million tiny pieces. Quick! Come over here!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Does that thing even work? It looks a million years old.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then after that some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I said that the white man’s efforts to make my name poison actually succeeded only in making millions of black people regard me like Joe Louis. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything just gets worse when I reach inside, and a million times worse when I dump everything onto the floor. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Radio-sodium had a gratifyingly lengthy half-life of fifteen and a half hours and gamma ray energies that Ernest calculated at about 5 million electron volts. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Mythology, the ancient sociologist would have thought, could not possibly enable millions of strangers to cooperate on a daily basis. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Luke Hunter he described was, like, a million shades away from any self-portrait I might have painted. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There are about 6.5 million American Muslims in this country, making them one of the largest religious groups in the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She watched the stars come out, one by one, until the sky was filled with a million points of light. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Of China’s 1.2 billion people, over 800 million speak Mandarin, the language with by far the largest number of native speakers in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But if there had been any paleontologists living 67 million years ago, they could not have predicted the dinosaurs’ imminent demise, because asteroids belong to a field of science otherwise remote from dinosaur biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They also became convinced that George Gey and Johns Hopkins had stolen their mother’s cells and made millions selling them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But walking around looking at everybody, I felt a million miles away from all them. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’d been thinking a lot about Mom, and I had about a million half questions swirling in my head about her, but that wasn’t what he was looking for. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Today, Australia is populated and governed by 20 million non-Aborigines, most of them of European descent, plus increasing numbers of Asians arriving since Australia abandoned its previous White Australia immigration policy in 1973. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If you asked his reaction to a $91 million hike in utility bills, he probably wouldn’t be. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in over an hour, Dolores’s thoughts drifted to the ancient toe bone, worth millions of dollars, that she’d left sitting on the armrest of her car. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They have the mystery of ferns that disappeared a million years ago into the coal of the carboniferous era. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

From 150 million kilometers away, we recognize its power. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been here a million years ago with my mom, but everything had looked so much bigger then. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He’ll say, I will never leave you, not in a million years. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be a million crickets singing around us. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The situation is even worse for the millions more who have illegally entered the United States since 1990. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The collector, a clever criminal himself, would pay Glitts sixty million dollars for her, but wanted a guarantee that the police would never trace the theft. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was about a million people it seemed, and lights, and the beat was rocking the moon. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A million droplets of fog bead up on the fuzz of her wool dress and along the warp of her hair, and the light outlines her in silver. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Coalwood, West Virginia, where I grew up, was built for the purpose of extracting the millions of tons of rich bituminous coal that lay beneath it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But the whole universe is outside us. Look at the stars! Some of them are a million light-years away. They are out of our reach forever.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There was a half-moon and several million stars lighting the night as they never did at home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

If a man could give five million dollars away, then millions must be as common to him as nickels. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But another part of me—maybe the part of me that was millions of years old, the animal part, the primordial part that still relied on survival instinct—pulled up. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

For a million uneasy reasons, this news had me squirming on my hard wooden chair. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In fact, it was Republican president Ronald Reagan who granted amnesty to nearly three million undocumented immigrants in 1986. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Or his cell phone could fall out of his pocket and shatter into a million pieces. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A million years of evolution had made it part of the human brain. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The impact of the disaster even reached Europe, where nearly one million dollars in cash was raised. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Later, he inherited a fortune of $3 million, and he used part of the money to build Riverbank. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The monster burst into a million goldfish, which all swam off in terror. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And if they won an additional ten million, Benji would give that over too. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not so long ago H. Wayne Huizenga, the billionaire founder of Blockbuster and owner of the Miami Dolphins, wanted more elbow room and bought a neighboring house for $2.5 million. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The lottery was up to twenty-something million dollars and people were running their mouths about that. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“That ignoramus Gowon pledged a miserable, measly amount for more than two million refugees. Did he think it was chickens that died and it is the surviving relatives of those chickens who have returned home?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Still, the idea of attempting to release nuclear energy in the middle of a city of three million made Groves very nervous. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s not just a headache I feel, I can see it, like it’s made up of a million colors, all of them blinding. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t begin to imagine six million of my people murdered. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

How could I put my own needs, and even those of our girls, in front of the possibility that Barack could be the kind of president who helped make life better for millions of people? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Joseph had a million questions he wanted to ask, but he couldn’t bring himself to say the words that scared him the most, so he didn’t say anything. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Terman’s specialty was intelligence testing; the standard IQ test that millions of people around the world would take during the following fifty years, the Stanford- Binet, was his creation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Lyell had argued that the current landscape of the earth was the consequence of natural forces that had accumulated over millions of years. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

More than four million workers stayed home in what was the largest political strike in South African history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have evolved over millions of years eating plants that today we would call “natural” or “organic.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Some states have no minimum age for prosecuting children as adults; we’ve sent a quarter million kids to adult jails and prisons to serve long prison terms, some under the age of twelve. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It took, like, a million phone calls and texts between Imani’s parents and both sets of my parents to get this set up. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

But doing this would require millions of neutralization tests, which involved mixing blood serum from newly vaccinated children with live poliovirus and cells in culture. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say, She's only mentioned you a million times. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Thalia’s expression was dangerously close to Zeus’s, the one time I’d seen him get angry— like any minute, her eyes would shoot a million volts. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Do you think it’ll get us to two million?” he asks. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mysteriously and over millions of years, it appears that Denver has been rising, like baking bread. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But this story is played out, don’t you think? The lost dog, looking for a home. A million of these movies already exist.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently the seeds are poisonous, but Grandpop eats them every day, which means by now he’s probably had at least a million, and seems fine...minus the whole glaucoma thing. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Bethe had not been wrong about this obstacle, merely premature; but if the cyclotron were to move beyond 30 million electron volts, the issue had to be faced now. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

These crimes included the torture and murder of twelve million people—six million Jews and six million non-Jews who were deemed enemies of the Reich. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If her grandparents owned a million things, maybe they wouldn’t even have thought to save those stuffed animals. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It’s like saying you’ll get one hundred million dollars at the end of the year. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Would she even notice if someone took twenty million out of her billions? Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed out that Republicans had given citizenship to four million slaves. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

For normal potato farmers, it's not worth doing because they're working with literally millions of potato plants. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The office, as Myron had told me maybe a million times, used to be my dad’s bedroom, and before Myron moved to the basement, he and my father had shared it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The oldest Java “man” fossils—of course, they may actually have belonged to a Java woman—have usually been assumed to date from about a million years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The thought ended his brief moment of calm, stirring in his mind a million possibilities of what might live in the maze outside, all of them terrifying. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Interlocking loops of multicolored construction paper—six million of them for the six million Jewish lives snuffed out during the Holocaust. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I really want to show you the market. And we could get you a disguise so no one would recognize you in a million years.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Like she had done this a million times before. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

So, too, has much of southern Africa; a portion of it a thousand miles across has risen nearly a mile in 100 million years without any known associated tectonic activity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Walking down River Street, they stopped at every window and planned exorbitant purchases when they made their first million dollars. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least one million, and perhaps as many as two million, were homeless, living on the streets or in shantytowns like Seattle’s Hooverville. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

More than sixty million dollars’ worth of real estate was built here last year, he said, and it’s all because of the World’s Fair. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The first one or two thousand million years of the earth’s existence were too hot for the development of anything complicated. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I am particularly interested in the school business, because it seems to me that the blight can disappear only when there are millions of Coopers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, most big mammals of Africa and Eurasia survived into modern times, because they had coevolved with protohumans for hundreds of thousands or millions of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Congress because it killed millions of birds, fish, and amphibians after World War II, the insecticide called DDT was still being used in South America. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ralph knew there were not really a million mice in the inn, although he had to admit that in wintertime the mouseholes were crowded, because his rough outdoor relatives moved inside to keep warm. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Malaria continues to claim more lives than any other disease, with some health organizations estimating up to 2 million deaths a year. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She should have the opportunity to take the million dollar shot. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at the black water, I could think of about three million places I'd rather swim. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was crushed by darkness and the look of the country and the million odours on a wind that iced his body. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, because there was not one chance in a million that it could actually help, and second, because plasma screens grow extremely hot after prolonged use. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But in concert with its fellows, a mighty iron that subjugated millions despite its weakness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Manioc was common throughout Congo, and its starchy root kept millions from starvation. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some 14,700 tons of silver worth more than $300 million were procured from the depository on the understanding that every ounce would be returned after the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Even though this threatened to put his $5.5 million film project in jeopardy, he made the crucial gas available without hesitation. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted so much to let them fall, but then it felt like I would fall, too, into a million little pieces. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The affairs of Europe still seemed a million miles away, and that’s exactly where most people wanted to keep them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Not even if they paid me a million dollars.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I could bring tears to the eyes of millions with that recording,” Bull retorted, his feelings ruffled somewhat. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell that to George Finkle when you miss your million dollar shot,” she said. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We smile at each other, and even though there are a million reasons why I shouldn’t, looking at her now, I can’t help feeling like I’m falling in love with her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The average Nantucket house price last year jumped 26 percent, to $1,672 million, said H. Flint Ranney, a veteran real estate broker. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A million acres were treated the first year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was not wrong, the monster said, It was only a thought, one of a million. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I had a million more questions, but May had started humming “Oh! Susanna.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more eastern regions of Asia were populated by Homo erectus, ‘Upright Man’, who survived there for close to 2 million years, making it the most durable human species ever. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, had about two million women and men eager to work for the amendment, and Alice Paul’s National Woman’s Party had about fifty thousand more. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Really big measures, like the size of a universe, are measured in megaparsecs: a million parsecs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

That is not to suggest that the nearly five million Mexicans who, like Peralta, are living in the United States illegally will never emerge from the shadows. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

What if people had forced turtles to come out of their shells two hundred million years ago? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The platform was built of almost three million cubic yards of rock, much of it transported from mountain quarries fifty miles away. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The show had been on for one season and not a single soul among Chicago's three million residents had ever recognized him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Almost $14 million in damage was recorded, and nearly five thousand men, women, and children were arrested, injured, or dead. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And we have about seven million pounds of food. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

If you are thinking I am making this up, read Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter....Don’t let millions of people down who regard you as a genius and an example to themselves. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Drake’s vote, along with the votes of millions of other people labeled felons, might have made a real difference in 2004. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were better off than millions of people. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Then say it, Love, but make haste. I been a-waitin’ for you a million years. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But what about the millions of children and teenagers who followed Hitler and fought for the Nazis? Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If the evacuation failed and the ports were bombed, more than half a million people would die. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

His Huntington Beach plant produces 450 megawatts of power, which is enough to power nearly half a million homes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There is no doubt this woman has hit on at least three million women in her life. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A century later, in 1900, when sugar was used in jams, cakes, syrups, and tea, and every modern country was filled with factories, world production of sugar reached six million tons. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Instead of the night songs of the coyote, we would hear the buzzing and chirping and chattering of millions of insects—all of which seemed to see us Marines as their midnight snacks. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1935, that number drops by almost six hundred thousand, and then, within a decade and a half, the number is back over three million again. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It has been suggested that the major ice ages on our planet, which recur every hundred million years or so, may be due to the interposition of interstellar matter between the Sun and the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have sued for a million dollars! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tens of millions of Japanese would give their lives to defend their homeland. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anybody with a hooked-up computer can now communicate remotely and instantaneously—through the spoken word or through the written—with a potential audience of millions. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

With the bloody Battle of Stalingrad—in which as many as two million soldiers and civilians were killed—the tide began to turn against the Germans. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

You would have thought it was a million dollars, the way she carried on. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a space not much larger than our Navajo homelands, there were 80 million Japanese people. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Confederate president had set aside more than $1 million in gold to pay for acts of espionage and intrigue against the Union and kept a portion of the money in Canada. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The lamp crashes to the floor into a million little pieces, so tiny that parts have become powder. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Today in the United States there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations composed of nearly three million people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

"It is tragic what happened to your delightful home. And as Nergal is family, it is our responsibility to repair the damage he caused. How much do you want? Is a million enough?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if a million kids were shoutinggruntingpushingcrying their way to school. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What will you do with the million dollars? What do you eat for breakfast?” and other silly stuff. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Government spending on nuclear weapons research was running about $ 150 million a year, Bradbury estimated, about three times its rate prior to the establishment of Livermore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I trotted out about a million different scenarios, but none of them made any sense. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Even though I’ve been in her room a million times, the shadows and shapes now frighten me. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

But World War II was of magnitude 7.7: some fifty million military personnel and noncombatants were killed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably doesn’t have to be a million. I bet a hundred grand would get you on the team and a starting spot.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mind floods with a million questions about what is going on, but I know Mustafa doesn’t have the answers, and the look on his face warns me to stay quiet. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, As we walked through the double doors and entered the cold and scary room at the Holocaust Museum, silence fell upon me as I looked at the death of millions. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Gregor would never in a million years have believed Henry to be a spy for the rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In less than thirty years, the U.S. penal population exploded from around 300,000 to more than 2 million, with drug convictions accounting for the majority of the increase. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As I sat under the tree, I sorted through the millions of messages still clogging my inbox. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At the end of the pier, a guy who looked about a million years old was passed out in a patch of sunlight. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Although I hadn’t had a seizure since May, the night of the perigee moon—which was now one hundred million miles behind me—I felt disconnected and drained. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

With hundreds of millions of bacteria, it only takes one survivor to stave off extinction. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is sort of what I thought Joseph would be like right now, out in the middle of it—except he would never in a million years wail. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“My mother will split the Collective into a million pieces.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The royal stables are, of course, elaborate and well-kept and about a million miles from the old ranches he’s seen out in the Texas panhandle. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Which would explain the three million texts from Camila and Mya and Poe asking about how last night went. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A light beam leaving that galaxy now will take a million years to make its trip to Earth; the light reaching our eyes now left that galaxy a million years ago. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I started picturing millions of jerks coming to my funeral and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The radio informed us the two American boxers would be paid five million American dollars each, from our treasury, for coming here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many million years old was the stonified creature I held in my hand? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Why should 1 get killed so he can make another fifty million dollars?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suggestion is that the other dimensions are curved up into a space of very small size, something like a million million million million millionth of an inch. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t answer, because right then Nyame strode forward, his golden robes absorbing the light and scattering it across the beach like a million pieces of glass. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Rising a hundred feet from the forest floor, its soaring boughs spread out in a canopy of incomparable lushness, an acre of leaves per tree, a million or so in all. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Impossible. Were there even six million Jews in the world?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But just think of all the millions of people all saying to themselves: It doesn’t matter, it’s just me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Supposedly this Devil One person was going to get one million dollars from the United States to pay soldiers to do that, go against the very person they all just elected. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the face of it, it seemed unlikely that one Leader could force a million Englishmen against their will. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for me and millions of others, it’s the only foolproof way to forget our troubles. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom can decorate almost a half a million Finkles in a day. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t felt this good in at least two million miles,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“She will not be able to play a trick on me if she is too busy counting to one million.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, seven million children-—children who had existed only as phantom exemptions on the previous year’s 1040 forms—vanished, representing about one in ten of all dependent children in the United States. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The original organization, the Farmers' Alliance, was for whites only, but an affiliated Colored Farm Alliance was soon started and quickly attracted more than one million members. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Only seventy million years ago their ancestors were carnivorous mammals who migrated in slow steps from the land into the ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are brownstones—limestone and maroon houses that stand like fence posts and always have Indian men refurbishing them—and everybody goes crazy for those, pays millions of dollars to live in them. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“These capes must be worth at least ten million gold coins. Maybe more,” said Valley as she admired the Laroux’ matching capes. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Europe expended millions of her treasures, and the blood of two million of her people; and a handful of quarrelsome knights retained possession of Palestine for about one hundred years! Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimly, as if from far away, she heard a ... a noise ... a soft sighing sound, as if a million people had let out their breath at once. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“See you in six million years,” said Officer Shrift, and the sound of his footsteps grew fainter and fainter until it wasn’t heard at all. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I focus on the stars, and I send love to the aliens flying millions of miles from me in outer space. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“And I’ve told you a million times,” said Lupin, refusing to meet her eyes, staring at the floor, “that I am too old for you, too poor...too dangerous...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

About 240 million acres of America’s forests are owned by the government. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: If everyone gets two dollars, you gonna get about two million dollars for your aid checks! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never in a million years would I have expected this. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Because of silence, over one million people perished during the reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A primordial black hole with an initial mass of a thousand million tons would have a lifetime roughly equal to the age of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nearly broke my neck on about ten million garbage pails, but I got out all right. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Our galaxy is a huge disk of stars millions of light- years across, and the solar system is somewhere near the outside edge of the disk. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In 2006 an NIH researcher gave thousands of tissue samples to the pharmaceutical company Pfizer in exchange for about half a million dollars. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen Grandma a million times, but never before as a Holocaust survivor. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Two million years ago, genetic mutations resulted in the appearance of a new human species called Homo erectus. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of them bothered to point out that baseball teams cost way more than five million dollars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

That its director had to battle alone, tooth and nail, on behalf of 35 million black Americans. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lady on the six p.m. news had said the lottery prize was up to $137 million. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Sheed said, “You were born because Petey missed an opportunity? Shouldn’t there be a bunch of Missed Opportunities, then? Like millions?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A little cinnamon girl with a million braids in her hair came up and wrapped her arms around Lovey’s legs. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Ten million men mobilized,” Faber's voice whispered in his other ear. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

That too was distant and hard to be sure of, blanketed by millions of snowflakes and blown this way and that by little puffing gusts of wind. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of people have been killed by the terrorists, and millions have been injured. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the coast-to-coast radio hookup, millions of people heard Marian Anderson sing that day. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

As many of your million books seem to be present and underused, I must beg you to grant me permission to borrow a few so that they might receive the attention they deserve. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The tanks were defended by nearly as many planes, and about two million soldiers were involved in the fighting—a larger number than the combined populations of present-day Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Those big companies make millions off of poor people like us ’cause we can’t afford to eat anywhere else. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

This means it will take about a thousand million million million million years for the earth to run into the sun, so there’s no immediate cause for worry! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held it like it was worth a million dollars. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1940, there were about a million cars in Los Angeles, more cars than in forty-one states. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Altogether in the last 100 million years it has reversed itself about two hundred times, and we don’t have any real idea why. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I was related to bears, to dinosaurs, to plants, to things that were a million years old. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe collecting thirty million paper clips was the only way for those guys to get their teachers to stop tolerance education.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Innumerable shops, millions sleeping in beds around them, and yet where are they all? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Infinity and back again, I say the way I've said it a million times. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He thrived on solving complex problems, prided himself on coming up with novel solutions, the kinds of things other people would never think of in a million years. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Sam talked to the old lady. She could never recognize those boys. Not in a million years.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

A rock constantly pushed by millions of drops of water and my brother is on the beach and I’m hoping the water doesn’t wet him. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I glanced at my mother, but she was a million miles away. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In reality, Jews numbered about 523,000 out of a population of 67 million people in Germany, less than 1 percent. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It seems like a million years ago now, a different lifetime, a different person entirely. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A million years from now, Leo will look still less like a lion than it does today. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He would say that even a million Dothraki are no threat to the realm, so long as they remain on the other side of the narrow sea," Ned replied calmly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There are millions of activists who have mobilized after the election on your behalf, but you can do your part, too. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Thousands, maybe millions, of hungry mosquitoes massed so thickly that in one breath Salva could have ended up with a mouthful if he wasn’t careful. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, she’s also dragged me to, like, a million stores to try on dresses. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He made them imagine that the earth—four thousand six hundred million years old—was a forty-six-year-old woman—as old, say, as Aleyamma Teacher, who gave them Malayalam lessons. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He filed a civil suit, and a New Orleans jury awarded Thompson $14 million. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But when the auction finally ended, the tablet wound up selling to the Sixers for almost two million credits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Tribune argued that the only greater gathering was the massing of Xerxes’ army of over five million souls in the fifth century B.C. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The 1932 Detroit Times classifieds, advertised to a population of four million, ran to just over one column. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed since 1964 was estimated to be at least two million. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Better a million false alarms than the alternative. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Below, on the overcrowded sidewalks, more than two and a half million people, armed with beach chairs, picnic baskets, and thermoses, solemnly watched hundreds of floats pass by. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“They’re a million times better than any meatball I ever had.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“But I like to keep things clean. A woman comes by every week to clean. I’ve told her a million times to clean everywhere. I’ve even pointed that out to her.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If Dobyns was right, disease claimed the lives of 80 to 100 million Indians by the first third of the seventeenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As millions of Americans watched, he concluded his speech. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Einstein assumed that everybody—no matter at what speed they are traveling—agrees about the speed of light in a vacuum: about 300 million meters per second, a constant denoted by the letter c. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

About 4.6 million people came from Mexico to work in agriculture. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“They are training an army of ten million.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I eat for more than myself—I eat for six million. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A wrestler near the top of this elite pyramid may earn millions and is treated like royalty. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Goose bumps exploded across both arms, even though it was a million degrees outside. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was rich as Croesus, something he had never expected to be, not in a million years. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I typed it into the search browser, over 150 million results popped up. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

John Henry flung them into the air, then batted them into a million pieces. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Yet counting all species together, there were still no more than perhaps a million humans living between the Indonesian archipelago and the Iberian peninsula, a mere blip on the ecological radar. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to say, “About a hundred thousand times” Or, “About a hundred million times.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My sister has a million after-school activities so she can get into Harvard. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The image of the one mountain among thousands, the one tree among millions, and the one boy, Sam Gribley, flashed in, then out of her mind. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There are fifteen million hogs in Iowa, so a lot of manure to manage. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Yet for millions of Americans—for most Americans—the hard times still seemed as hard as ever. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

That rock hadn't moved in a million years! The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kinshasa has ten million people but only two paved roads and no traffic lights, so the routes are too crowded to get anywhere fast. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a steep climb through tough little foot-high bushes and a million small jagged stones. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regardless, Grody stresses that questions of consent should apply only to the collection of future samples, not the millions already stored, including HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Never in a million years could I have imagined that entering Central High School would change absolutely everything in my life. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The crater is the inside of a giant volcano that blew its top off millions of years ago. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are millions of people in the world, and I’m just me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Park Avenue was my favorite in the spring because of the million zillion tulips in the huge flower beds in the middle of the street—yellow, pink, orange. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

His face was coffee-colored and cross-hatched with a million tiny wrinkles, and his lower lids showed red rims like a bloodhound’s eyes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were covered with flies, millions of flies, their buzzing providing a white-noise background to the screams and the wails. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he was now claiming that the artifacts were half a million years old. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could see my mother going in Spaulding's and asking the salesman a million dopy questions--and here I was getting the ax again. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I may have been too old for them, but I had a million different Lego kits—space ones, dinosaurs, trucks and cars—all lining the walls of my bedroom on shelves. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Mammoths had flourished for millions of years over most of the northern hemisphere, but as Homo sapiens spread—first over Eurasia and then over North America—the mammoths retreated. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the vivid descriptions in the popular books by Lowell and his fervor in public lectures convinced millions of people for years to come that Mars was home to intelligent life. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She had spent millions of Mark’s money on peacock tongues for dinner. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask her for my dad’s email about a million times. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

A raw skinning wind like a million trolls howling. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I swallow hard, thinking of the millions of times he opened that watch to check the tides. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The clean cold air, the constant motion of the treetops, the brilliance of the moon-painted clouds in the dark sky, and the millions of stars all calmed her a little. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Two hundred million dollars, Turtle thought, but who gets it? The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

One one hundred seventy-five miles northwest of Kraków, but more than a million miles from the civilized world. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Its three million people were slowly starving to death. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It’s a smell I’ve smelled a million times, but it never gets old. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

If she doesn’t sell a billion shirts and twelve million belts on Black Friday, the world will end. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We estimated that there would be over twenty million people going to the polls, most of them voting for the first time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart goes a million miles an hour and her feet fly. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Was he glad that he was having something offered to him that ten million men in America would have fallen on their knees and thanked God for? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell you about the three million entries Finkle Foods received from kids all over the country. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie jumps up and down like he’s just won a million dollars. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Several million people were tuned in to the radio broadcast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much of history revolves around this question: how does one convince millions of people to believe particular stories about gods, or nations, or limited liability companies? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They literally swam around with the dinosaurs four hundred fifty million years ago.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Similarly, the National Journal reported that between January 1997 and October 1999, the agency handled 3.4 million orders of Pentagon equipment from over eleven thousand domestic police agencies in all fifty states. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Capping the brainstem is the R-complex, the seat of aggression, ritual, territoriality and social hierarchy, which evolved hundreds of millions of years ago in our reptilian ancestors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, the very factors that drove millions of American women to have an abortion also seemed to predict that their children, had they been born, would have led unhappy and possibly criminal lives. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

HeLa cells are still contaminating other cultures and causing an estimated several million dollars in damage each year. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Have I made a million dollars yet?” she asked. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Another eight million civilians perished because they were caught in the cross fire, or struck down by the starvation and disease that war brings with it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For the first time in a decade, over half a million black voters in Chicago went to the polls, proving that they had the collective power to shape political outcomes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Midnight passes and I’m twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Junior officers were making loans of up to $1 million without any review. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Because you don't. You don't like any schools. You don't like a million things. You don't." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“You have almost two million dollars and a week to do whatever you want,” she continued. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

For millions of young Americans, and their families and friends, Vietnam was no longer a distant conflict. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At this house and how I can hear her upstairs because the house is a million years old and there’s no insulation between ceilings and floors, unless you count centuries-old mouse nests. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Dad must have seen me squirming because he said, “Don’t worry, son, it was a freak deal—what they call an atmospheric anomaly. Probably never happen here again in a million years.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I want to hug him, hold him tight, and feel the sky fill up with a million stars. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Mom,” I asked, “how much is a million dollars?” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You dog! If you end up marrying that chick, you owe me at least a half a million dollars.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Accruing half a million dollars in high-interest loan debt for an engineering degree I can steal online? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

In a fresh and frenzied campaign in January 1945, six million Soviet soldiers surged along the Eastern Front against a scraggling and demoralized German force of about two million. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The one mountain among thousands, the one tree among millions, and Sam were coming more vividly to mind the longer she lingered. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Originally the business had been named the Idaho Gold and Radium Mining Company, after Schnatterly claimed to have found a vein of radium worth millions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, Mama’s face went from looking like nine miles of bad road to like somebody had left her a million dollars. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She looked at me a second, and then she hugged me very, very tight while we both cried a million tears. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Dad told me that one company had been so alarmed by the success of Mother’s oils, they had offered to buy her out for an astonishing three million dollars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was her first piece to get onto the national news, and twenty million viewers would see it. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t in a million years tell him. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The floe, which Worsley estimated at possibly a million tons, pressed so hard against Endurance that her beams began to buckle and her foremast jerked and shook like a cornstalk in the wind. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

After all these centuries of tender loving care from millions of Tang families, the Stove King had gotten quite pudgy. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

One million Irish Catholics died; another million and a half fled into the arms of America. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I walk and the desert sand gives way to a cobblestone path, its vermillion stones worn and rounded by what looks like millions who must have traveled it before me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Less than ten million years ago, the first creatures who closely resembled human beings evolved, accompanied by a spectacular increase in brain size. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has her smile cranked up to a million, and her eyes are bright and crinkly. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

As a result, the organisms of distant lands like Australia and Madagascar evolved in isolation for millions upon millions of years, taking on shapes and natures very different from those of their distant Afro-Asian relatives. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one mountain among thousands, the one tree among millions, and the one Sam Gribley were pulling her home. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Parker was estimated to be worth over $120 million, but the government could only locate half of that amount. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One million pieces of paper filled the sky. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The DDT will turn up in the milk in the amount of about 3 parts per million, but in butter made from this milk the concentration may run to 65 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Over the six months of the fair an average of twelve thousand people would attend each of Cody’s 318 performances, for a total attendance of nearly four million. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Out of 300 million Americans, only 2 million are still farmers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Dad was in such a hurry to follow her that he dropped the video camera, which broke into a million pieces. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I never guessed in a million years that she'd give it back to me. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Shin left Beijing and took a 70-mile bus ride to Tianjin, a city of ten million people, where he tried again with Korean churches. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She’d told me a million times how scared she was that if you set foot in a hospital, the doctors might lock you away in “a mental institution.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Recall that Australian/New Guinean animals had evolved for millions of years in the absence of human hunters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Estimates of Alexandria’s population in the Hellenistic era range from four hundred thousand to one million— bigger than any Mediterranean city except Rome. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Galen’s extraordinary logorrhoea—his surviving works amount to 3 million words, and represent perhaps a third of what he wrote—is the consequence of his obsessive and futile effort to overcome this insuperable obstacle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“So if Uncle Jim’s land is worth a million dollars, that means your land is worth a million dollars.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What you’re suggesting is a one in a million chance, and that means there are nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand other chances to die.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Examination of a biopsy specimen of fat showed an accumulation of 23 parts per million of DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“A million things. Maybe Charles lost his head or something.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were rounded up by the millions, packed away in prisons, and when released, they were stigmatized for life, denied the right to vote, and ushered into a world of discrimination. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Or worse, she might start asking me a million questions about him. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

"It's amazing. Orbs everywhere—every color, every size, millions of them! And food and music. And the best part..." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Hitler and his millions of willing accomplices had succeeded in destroying a family once vibrant, prosperous, and loving. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They say it can hold more than two million gallons of molasses,” Mr. Vita said. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

A few million years ago, the present site of the city of Chicago was buried under three kilometers of frost. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

How did Homo sapiens manage to cross this critical threshold, eventually founding cities comprising tens of thousands of inhabitants and empires ruling hundreds of millions? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For intellectuals, journalists, and millions of workers, a future without capitalism seemed real and attainable. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The information in our genes is very old—most of it more than millions of years old, some of it billions of years old. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to his own rough calculations, Virginia would transfer about $3 million of debt to the federal government, then be charged about $5 million in new taxes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

People say that Batista had to pay a million dollars to become a member because his skin is not light enough. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mask, flight, numbers in the millions producing numbers in the millions? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not just one memory; it’s a million, twisting and twirling and wrapping together into something that looks like the pictures of galaxies in my science book. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Kinshasa was a sprawling city of ten million, and if we headed west we’d be sure to hit some part of it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And this is barely a fraction of the six million we’re shooting for. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He tried to convince himself that there were a million reasons she could’ve said what she did. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

My actual birthday, two weeks away, was about twenty-four million miles in front of Julia Bishop and me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Families struggled to put food on the table, while the royal family spent hundreds of millions of dollars on parties to celebrate the monarchy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Studies done years later using modern technology have confirmed that the Great Molasses Flood was caused by the outrageously shoddy construction of a tank required to hold 2.5 million gallons of heavy, sticky liquid. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The average species on Earth lasts for only about four million years, so if you wish to be around for billions of years, you must be as fickle as the atoms that made you. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes! And we have millions of dollars at our disposal. How do we get revenge?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had lasted just six months, yet during that time its gatekeepers recorded 27.5 million visits, this when the country’s total population was 65 million. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Another kestrel, perhaps his mate, conies to that cry, and after a few million years all the kestrels are calling each other with their individual note of Kee-kee-kee.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could ask a million questions about what will happen next, but I've decided that I'm going to go where the wind takes me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

More than twenty million people had been killed in the war with Germany. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A star tens of times more massive than the Sun can stably convert hydrogen to helium for only a few million years before moving briefly on to more exotic nuclear reactions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down and down and down, racing closer and closer to the houses and streets below, where it would surely smash into a million pieces when it hit. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Turtles had survived on earth more than two hundred million years—longer than snakes or crocodiles, even. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But the winds of April 14 suddenly blew away the slowly accumulating hopes of millions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Like Mom says, life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There would be hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The first reason was that Alabama was about two million miles from Flint and By knew Momma wouldn’t let him ride the bus that far alone. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom had complained to the school a million times that they weren’t doing enough to help him. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Five years of planning, millions of dollars spent developing the latest spy gear, and months of careful training went into making sure that the picnic went off without a hitch. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I know millions of American Muslims—both religious and secular—are echoing these very same words at this very same moment. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Five months, which is 150 days, which is millions and millions of seconds, but I couldn’t calculate exactly how many right then. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And this continued for many hours, for many days, until all those birds—hundreds, thousands, and then millions!—fluttered to the ground, dead and still, until not one bird remained in the sky. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I read somewhere that a lot of the stars we see don’t exist anymore. They’ve already died and it’s taken millions of years for their light to reach Earth,” Dill said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

To gain a foothold against the disease could cost hundreds of millions, they estimated. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I knew for a fact that the apartment could fetch twenty million, and that was without the art and the furnishings. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

All had died from some mysterious cataclysm just under twelve million years ago in the time known to geology as the Miocene. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Even now I can see the whole house, inside and out: a welcome mat at the door, a red kettle on the stove, the million stars shining in through the skylight at night. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Looking back now, I can only remember a time when the world seemed to have a million eyes, silently opening wherever I went. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His captors had five million Earthling books on microfilm, but no way to project them in Billy’s cabin. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk past things I’ve seen a million times in my years at Saint Grace’s. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be in- evitable in a hundred million. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah—but I just tried to book a hotel in Vegas. A million hotel rooms, and not a single one available.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

As the network pundits would later acknowledge, choosing Barack Obama to speak to an audience of millions had been a mighty gamble. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If written out in English, say, that information would fill some twenty million volumes, as many as in the world’s largest libraries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his insane day and the million thoughts running through his head, his body took over and said: You will sleep now. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He talked in a huge circle, he probably had a million words in his vocabulary and he had to use them all before he started over again. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hair grows about half an inch per month, the same amount of time it takes us to fly fifty million miles through space. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He could feel his own nerves, each one, millions of them, taut with energy waiting to be released. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

What if millions of terrified human survivors fled in a stampede, making their way to the sea where ships waited to evacuate them? Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Or the hay, containing residues of 7 to 8 parts per million, may be fed to cows. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

At least, it didn’t break into a million pieces. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The young girl’s voice brought back images of the one mountain among thousands of mountains, the one hemlock tree among millions of trees—and Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

If the diet contains as little as Vi 0 of 1 part per million there will be measurable amounts of heptachlor in the body. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Officer Shrift wandered through the crowd, suspiciously muttering, “Guilty, guilty, they’re all guilty,” and, on noticing Milo, brightened visibly and commented in passing, “Is it six million years already? My, how time flies.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every year Earth’s rivers carried massive volumes of eroded material–500 million tons of calcium, for instance–to the seas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

During the next few years its success in Italy was matched by the successful control of lice affecting some two million people in Japan and Korea in the winter of 1945-46. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

By 1963, the South Vietnamese government had relocated more than five million farmers to heavily fortified villages. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Within five years, the lab’s budget was $127 million, and the staff reached five thousand. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Everyone agreed that it was a very fair sentence, and the judge continued: “There will also be a small additional penalty of six million years in prison. Case closed,” he pronounced, rapping his gavel again. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The mobster Al Capone was said to make upwards of $50 million a year from illegal booze. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Already burdened with nearly two million Afghan refugees, Pakistan had closed its borders to Afghans in January of that year. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When we were on camera, it felt like it took a million years to complete our round, but in just a few minutes the second set of contestants come back to the waiting room. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

"Only ring it once," I tell her, just because ringing anybody's doorbell ten million times is one of Maddy's favorite things to do. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Assuming a mountain 5,000 feet high with 500,000 million cubic feet of mass—roughly the size of Mount Washington—a single stream would level it in about 500 million years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The other said, “I wouldn’t go through all that, not for a million bucks.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the weeks that followed, no fewer than four million letters, telegrams, phone calls, postcards, and other expressions of support poured into the Republican Party’s headquarters. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Believe me, George Finkle will find a way to weasel out of paying the money. No way he’s going to pay out a million bucks for sinking a crummy foul shot.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

An estimated $12 million a year is lost to thieves in Harlem alone. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen the commercials on television for the aquarium—it’s supposed to have sharks and turtles and penguins and a million other sea animals. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Well, if I make the shot, I’m gonna split the million bucks with you.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were the ones we could evolve and sustain through the early millions of years of our evolutionary history, when the total human population was tiny and fragmented. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a white dress with two million ruffles and a neckline that was the lowest she’d ever worn...and makeup and high heels and an ostrich feather in her hair. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The rumor was that he’d lost a few million at least. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement—plants and animals each inhaling the other’s exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, some eighteen hundred people died, and more than half a million others were displaced, a tragedy exacerbated by the ineptitude of the federal government’s response. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He obtained the windfall by arranging the release of a million gallons of liquor to bootleggers in New York. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Cutie sounded grim, “Globes of energy millions of miles across! Worlds with three billion humans on them! Infinite emptiness! Sorry, Powell, but I don’t believe it. I’ll puzzle this thing out for myself. Good-by.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

In the war’, she went on, ‘the German spies used to sneak boxloads of loose-bristled toothbrushes into our shops and millions of our soldiers got appendicitis. ’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In your land, how many black people think about it that South and Central and North America contain over eighty million people of African descent?” he asked me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bet there are millions of people who’d agree with him, too. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Services, Incorporated, the auto-repair business she owns with her husband, Chris Fish, in the hope of making her first million at an early age. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have my generator and about a million hot dogs.” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

We've got over a week and less than a million left. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sky sparkled with a million stars and the Virgin’s homed moon, the moon of my mother’s people, the moon of the Lunas. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sensed the one mountain among thousands, the one tree among millions—and Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I feel that one ought to make a serious attempt to get up to 60 or 70 million volts. . . With such particles, we should begin to learn the true mechanics of the nucleus.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“And might I remind you that the penalty for harboring a shadow child is five million dollars or execution, depending on the mood of the judge?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, how is it that there’s fossils and things that are millions of years old?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He is unapologetic about spending it lavishly and says that he has paid his dues in the form of taxes, which he estimates at $500 million so far. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A low cloud in the air turned out to be tiny flying antlike creatures by the millions. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poor Father, who was just one of a million men who never did catch on. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I practically spat on the floor, which would have horrified Elisabet more than the ill-considered use of twenty million dollars. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his official report to Burnham Colonel Rice, commander of the Guard, wrote, “With the tens of thousands of employees and the millions of visitors, it must be admitted that our success was phenomenal.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“What? It’s a city of like twelve million people.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’m a carnivore, from a long line of carnivores going back five hundred million years and who knows how long before that. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for what I’ve learned: that hope is just a million shards of broken glass. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Take an imaginary situation in which a population of a million insects is multiplying five times in each generation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Cataclyst had sold to an anonymous bidder for just over a million credits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Such rejections cost American cattlemen about 3 V2 million dollars annually. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the neighborhood of 350 million tons of American topsoil had become airborne in that single storm. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The park gets some three million visitors a year, mostly in the three peak months of summer. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He says we will graduate knowing how to read and write because we’ll spend a million hours learning how to read and write. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

A small chunk of New York City's millions is here today. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One fragment, known as Nucleus G, struck with the force of about six million megatons–seventy-five times more than all the nuclear weaponry in existence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Customs House collected tens of millions of dollars in duties on these products, and this money made up a large part of the U.S. government's income. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“So? So the Sahara is a vast desert. And it has existed for millions of years. And you changed it!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not in a million years, not even with our cousins. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As late as 1910, one of the most respected estimates, by the American George Becker, put the Earth’s age at perhaps as little as 55 million years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The day I begged bread from the city officials was the day that showed me I was not alone in my loneliness, society had cast millions of others with me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has stunted the bodies of millions across the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I can still afford to spend another million notes, and I need to gather as much help as I can get. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At about ten or twenty thousand million years ago, it would have a minimum size, which was equal to the maximum radius of the history in imaginary time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our earliest ancestors began to walk on two feet about four million years ago, but how they were using their hands remains unknown to us. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

This thing is out 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, feeding a constant stream of data to a bunch of ground tracking stations all over the world. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a million and a half people in Manhattan, but none of them make eye contact unless you already know them. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But we also have many millions of desperately poor people here. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I know I’ve told you a million times, but I’m sorry, baby. I’ll always regret putting you through that. I’m sorry that you still have nightmares about it.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“There are about a million trees out there in Ruby Holler. That’s where we get the wood.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

President Kennedy holds a news conference concerning Laos, 1961 The small country with two million inhabitants was, like Vietnam, considered an important place to halt Communist domination of Southeast Asia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Out of the window, over his head, she could see the trees where millions of tiny new buds were beginning. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The famous Java Homo erectus fossils prove that humans have occupied at least western Indonesia for a million years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She and I had talked a lot about the million dollar shot. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

One second after the big bang, it would have fallen to about ten thousand million degrees. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it? This isn’t your private affair any more, Charlie. You’ve got obligations now—not only to Professor Nemur and Dr. Strauss, but to the millions who may follow in your footsteps.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

"I mean it's one in a million it happens to like this." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Even over the lifetime of the human species—a few million years—constellations have been changing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first installment was projected to be $30 million, and ultimately the Ministry of Justice expected to receive another $100 million. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

By 1922, ten million American households owned a radio receiver - up from just sixty thousand in 1919 - many of which were homemade ‘crystal’ sets. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In cities and towns all over the country, more than two million people gathered for marches and demonstrations. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In 1987, the amount of oil produced in North America had actually been the same as the amount of oil produced in the Middle East, about 12.5 million barrels a day. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood watching the lighthouse beam wheel around and wash over everything—a million seabirds sleeping in the pitted cliffs; giant rocks exposed by the low tide; a rotted skiff drowning in the sand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The video’s got like a million views online. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Did you know,” says Marie-Laure, “that the chance of being hit by lightning is one in one million? Dr. Geffard taught me that.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A pastoral suburb of around 7,200 amid a city of some five million people, Clarkston is still its own town. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

First prize was a million dollars and a new Buick, but Curly still couldn’t keep his eyes open. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a million thoughts in my head, but I couldn’t share them with anybody. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The mission control man reported that one of the astronauts said, “It feels good,” although I doubted sitting on a million tons of rocket fuel could feel good at all. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

At the time, its population was about three million, perhaps a tenth that of the Mexica empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now that I thought about it, I’d be pretty mad if somebody dumped four million pounds of manure in my home. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Another famed oilman in Oklahoma quickly burned through $50 million and ended up destitute. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To his right, the flatlands of Berkeley and Oakland marched west—a vast checkerboard of neighborhoods, with several million people who probably did not want their morning interrupted by two monsters and a filthy demigod. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“How cool is it gonna look when you step up to the line for your million dollar shot and you chuck a brick?” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

That is why he sold the vast Louisiana Territory to Jefferson for the bargain price of just fifteen million dollars. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The plant washes and packs 2.5 million pounds of lettuce a week. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“One million candy power! Oh, look,” he cried, pointing down, “there go the other children! They’re returning home!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

It seems like a million years ago that I was an ordinary kid who thought nothing was more important than some upcoming sports season and my next dumb prank with Jordie and Pouncey. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Now beet sugar set an example of modern farming that helped convince Russian nobles that it was time to free their millions of serfs. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Around 10,000 BC, before the transition to agriculture, earth was home to about 5–8 million nomadic foragers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a million questions in my head I want to ask him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have many troops in France that first winter, but we had millions in training, getting ready to go. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On Mars, and elsewhere in the solar system, we see features that could not be produced today, landscapes carved hundreds of millions or billions of years ago when the planetary climate was probably very different. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One million people walking in the streets on their way to work looked up into the sky and saw the monster hovering above them, and started running for the nearest subway entrance to take cover. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“That boat cost half a million bucks if it cost a penny. And you heard how much he paid for the rod and reel.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was yet another dramatic influx between 1880 and 1910, when more than four million Italians made the long, dangerous Atlantic crossing. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

PIH had spent several million dollars of the philanthropist’s fortune to buy the drugs for Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A person with active TB harbors hundreds of millions of bacilli in his lungs, enough to ensure that a small number will be mutant germs that aren’t stopped by anti-TB drugs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

If only a million other long shots paid off. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The continent’s quarrelsome societies helped them siphon off millions of people. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Hitler was exterminating millions of Jews and had an expanding list of undesirables who were being killed or imprisoned. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Today the water looked perfect, the way it was a million years ago, before people started using the ocean as a latrine. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The newspapers, TV stations, and media outlets that covered us probably brought our story to hundreds of millions more. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

One part in a million sounds like a very small amount — and so it is. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If all those cells were in fact HeLa, it would mean that millions of dollars had been wasted, and researchers who’d found that various cells behaved differently in culture could have some explaining to do. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

By the end of the 1500s CE, the total population of what we now call the Western Hemisphere was about one hundred million people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “You wonder why / don’t dance? Because I want you to remember twenty-two million Afro-Americans in the U.S.!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says a million things without saying a word. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a heat unlike anything I’d ever felt, a heat from the great buildings, compounded by the millions of people jamming themselves into subway cars, into bars, into those same tiny eateries and cafes. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She also believed in action movies, weight training, the power of makeup, memorization, equal rights, and the idea that YouTube videos can teach you a million things you won’t learn in college. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We could use it as an exit, except that it was blocked by a million robot spiders. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We have allowed ourselves to be willfully blind to the emergence of a new caste system—a system of social excommunication that has denied millions of African Americans basic human dignity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Big structures, such as mountain ranges, survive tens of millions of years; smaller impact craters, perhaps a hundred thousand'; and large- scale human artifacts only some thousands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The storm troopers were too powerful, with a force of nearly three million men. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Add to all this the sudden presence of 4 million newly freed slaves, and the picture becomes even more complicated. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Rowan found he had a million questions about conclave, but kept them to himself. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, Dad, the Marine Corps spares no expense on those I.D. photographs. It must cost them at least a nickel for every million dependents they take pictures of,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was reported that as many as a million people personally witnessed our procession through the city, and to see the support and enthusiasm they gave to the anti-apartheid struggle was truly humbling. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow glitters under an alien sun in a million points of light. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One hundred thirty-five million people, an audience of unprecedented size, tuned in to watch the spectacle as it unfolded on live television. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

This is one of the great secrets, wrested from Nature through a million years of patient observation and courageous thinking by our ancestors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will have made everything a million times worse for my family. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Here was the South Side—a million in captivity—stretching from this doorstep as far as the eye could see. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Under a sky peopled with millions of stars and a glaring moon, the sledges bumped and clattered over the ruts and stones until they reached clear snow at the edge of town. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

An estimated sixteen million visitors come to see the new inventions, including a solar oven, American porcelain teeth, Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, Thomas Edison’s phonograph and his megaphone, modified to help the hard of hearing. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It would take a million years to make everything quiet and smooth like before. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The justice system employed almost 2.4 million people in 2003—58 percent of them at the local level and 31 percent at the state level. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If the Communists catch us fleeing, it’s a million times worse than staying at home. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“But the world itself is only a speck of dust. And man is tiny—helpless! How long has he been in existence? For millions of years the earth was uninhabited.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

This is like one million on the flying-monkey scale for her. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

When you've got seventeen million followers, it's never hard to find a competent hacker who's willing to do you a favor. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Since its first known eruption 16.5 million years ago, it has blown up about a hundred times, but the most recent three eruptions are the ones that get written about. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ant mounds on lawns or playgrounds may create a situation where children are likely to be stung, but this is hardly an excuse for drenching millions of acres with poisons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I had a bad feeling this might be our last chance to talk, and I felt like there were a million things I hadn’t told her. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Studies show that measles is likely to die out in any human population numbering fewer than half a million people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Millions of gallons of water wasted, millions of lights burning, millions of pieces of litter, much of it harmful. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Out of all the possibilities in the world—the millions of them—only events occurred that lead to the Salinas jail. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hundred miles of train routes, four hundred stations, and millions of people of camouflage—this is our best chance at avoiding capture. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I know what they are, but... that was when my mom was little, like a million years ago. What’s he doing here?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mom has called and texted me, like, a million times. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Next came a proposal for a $2 million “Bobby Fischer Museum,” to be housed in Iceland—or maybe it should be Brooklyn, the promoters mused. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were about a million messages from people who had been at the concert, wishing us well and checking on Jeffrey’s health status. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s estimated that fewer than 50 American children are kidnapped each year by strangers, and the incidence of kidnapping is thus about one in 5 million, resulting in a safety index of 6.7. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

To have misunderstood it on this scale—five versus six million—seemed impossible. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Ten million people live in Harare, and ‘She Elephant’ is a more common nickname than you might think.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Today, the total population of Africa is less than 700 million, compared with 4 billion for Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But still: 1.6 million American women a year who got pregnant were suddenly not having those babies. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I have taken millions, and none came back.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"With your blood, Camellia, we will usher in a new form of beauty work that will make the kingdom millions of leas and billions of spintria." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I was always a little concerned with the idea—you know, this guy’s going to come back and write a story that’s going to be read by a couple of million people. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The supercontinent began to break apart, however, and by 60 million years ago, Antarctica had migrated south to its present location over the Pole. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Sixty million of them would have been more than sixty billion pounds of grouchy, fast- moving mammal pounding the plains. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

With millions in profits, the gangsters who ran Conexco could afford the best cryptography in the business. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

All I could see were millions of stars. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

That’s a perfect sample of the luck of the Bobos; a million and nine trees out there in ’em woods and Pap had to go pick the only one that was toting a invisible shield. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

She gives me a look that I’ve seen about a million times since I got here. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

One minute we’re all going nuts with pure joy at hitting six million, and then we all get quiet as we remember what that number represents. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

For years, the girls and I had shared Barack with his constituents, and now there were more than 300 million of them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Of course she is,” Alex said, praying that the Most Holy Mother’s arms were big enough to embrace the millions of souls, dead and gone, crying for her mercy. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He’d ridden a million times before, but not a horse this big, not a horse this strong and fast and fierce, and never at night. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Their inherited memories covered one million years without people, and so the birds hopped close to tourists and fishermen. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The nonplussed Loomis replied, “Well, we don’t know how to make a million volts that can be useful to you. We can only make sparks jump.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

One-third of the landscape of the lower forty-eight states is covered in trees—728 million acres in all. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Over seventy million cubic meters of rubble left over from the war still marred the city's landscape. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There are small traces of nitrogen, water vapor, argon, carbon monoxide and other gases, but the only hydrocarbons or carbohydrates present are there in less than 0.1 parts per million. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It lists a million things I’m not supposed to do and the consequences I’ll suffer if I do them. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the more than four million acres_of rangelands sprayed each year, tremendous areas of other types of land are also potential or actual recipients of chemical treatments for weed control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Census Bureau reported in 2002 that there are nearly 3 million more black adult women than men in black communities across the United States, a gender gap of 26 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But on the same flat there are millions of sea cradles. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a million small pockets and a silver clasp. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The following information is classified, as it refers to a location that handles several million very well-kept secrets. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

After half a million years ago, the human populations of Africa and western Eurasia proceeded to diverge from each other and from East Asian populations in skeletal details. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are nearly six million people on probation or on parole. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We’d learn later that nearly two million people had flooded the Mall, arriving from all parts of the country, a sea of diversity, energy, and hope stretching for more than a mile from the U.S. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

That moment seemed like a million years ago. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the old man had given five million dollars to colored people. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

If the rains failed or clouds of locusts arrived or if a fungus infected that staple species, peasants died by the thousands and millions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of these relative tiddlers in Earth-crossing orbits is almost certainly in the hundreds of thousands and possibly in the millions, and they are nearly impossible to track. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The civil war in Sudan had touched millions of lives. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most begging him to waste the day spending a million dollars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, a million voices seemed to rise up outside the windows, and they said: “Ten! Nine! Eight! Seven! Six! Five! Four! Three! Two! One!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I may not have a million presents, but I have one. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There were millions and millions of things to learn—more than I ever imagined a person could learn about a single animal. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Valley held her head up, much like she had at the Black Moon Ceremony, and Seven’s heart felt like it had just shattered into a million pieces. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And like a million others, chests pounding, tracks controlling their feet, they stared out the windows for first sight of the City that danced with them, proving already how much it loved them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked a million questions and Mr. Andrews answered every single one. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

One can imagine Hrdlicka’s disgust—Homo sapiens itself wasn’t thought to be half a million years old. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The answer was that millions of people had been that sad. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody knows how many people hike the Appalachian Trail, but most estimates put the number at around three or four million a year. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Why, Betty Allen would never do such a thing to Burke Allen in a million, trillion years. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But he still dreams that his children will someday join the millions who have lost their accents, gotten good educations, and firmly achieved the American dream. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Despite everything, I still marvel at how all those tiny ripples in the water can catch the sunlight and make the river shimmer like a million jewels were strewn on the surface. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

After inevitable bureaucratic infighting and logistics problems, the Global Fund money—$1+ million for the central plateau, spread over five years—became available. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Seventy-seven million, five hundred thirty-seven thousand, four hundred twelve,” Luke reminded us. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Turns out being on the surface of Mars for a few million years eliminates all the water in the soil. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Control of the gnats was at first good, but by 1954 the treatment had to be repeated, this time at the rate of 1 part of insecticide in 50 million parts of water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Warren Kent ain’t a big school, around a thousand students, but when you put us all together, we sounded like a million. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The bank used the alleged profits from the sale to show a profit in 1982 of $11.9 million instead of a loss. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take shallow breaths, coughing all the way, my body weighing ninety million pounds, and I push my way out the other side of the bramble. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You would never in a million years do what she did.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I bolt up screaming for my father to run as the mine explodes into a million deadly bits of light. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The stories of the living are all of one piece: a million colors along the same thread. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I'd practiced what I was going to say in my head a million times. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

For several years, South Korea helped fill the gap, giving Pyongyang half a million tons of fertilizer annually as part of its “Sunshine Policy” to try to ease North-South tensions. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Maya wanted to say and do a million things to her mom. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They estimated that between 1.5 million and 2 million of these listeners believed they were hearing actual news. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

That is what I beheld in one glance, hundreds of thousands of meerkats—more, a million—turning to me and standing at atten­tion, as if saying, “Yes, sir?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Free-range farming, as it is called, will make life much better for millions of animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ten million fireflies blinking on and off around my head, as if all the distant stars had come down to Earth just to say hello. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the days, weeks, months, and even years that followed, millions of words would be written about the causes of Prohibition, the reasons for its failure, and its effects on the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

If he could answer that question, he could go on talk shows and make a million dollars. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Nah, to me that was no different than some Wall Street executive who makes a million dollars by destroying some part of the world. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In a country of 225 million people, 1.6 million abortions per year—one for every 140 Americans—may not have seemed so dramatic. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

A million “I'm sorry”s sound in my head, and I hope they reach Khalil wherever he is, yet they’ll never be enough. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Doing millions of neutralization tests using monkey cells would cost millions of dollars. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Some 300 million others speak seven other languages as similar to Mandarin, and to each other, as Spanish is to Italian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In that moment, he would have given up half his share of the thirty million kruge for the familiar heft of his cane. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Nurse Mayinga seemed to be a vector for an explosive chain of lethal transmission in a crowded third-world city with a population of two million people. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wisht I could put you in a cage with about a million mice an’ let you have fun.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Modern Europe is not a society molded by sub-Saharan black Africans who brought millions of Native Americans as slaves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The journal carried a report by Merle Tuve claiming that his Tesla coil could drive alpha particles to energies as high as 10 million electron volts without “any serious difficulty.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At the time the conventional wisdom about the dinosaur extinction was the same as it had been in Charles Lyell’s day a century earlier–namely that the dinosaurs had died out over millions of years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Consider what happened one spring evening at midnight in 1987: seven million American children suddenly disappeared. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In that way, my commitment to my people, to the millions of South Africans I would never know or meet, was at the expense of the people I knew best and loved most. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t have guessed her in a million years. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In the Southwest an estimated 75 million acres of mesquite lands require management by some means, and chemical spraying is the method most actively pushed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I’d probably passed it a million times but never really looked at it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“What the hell are you talking about? By the time we got through with him, he’d been willing to sell a million boxes of chocolates.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were going to solve the omnivore’s dilemma the way millions of Americans do every day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The 60 million Austroasiatic speakers are scattered from Vietnam in the east to the Malay Peninsula in the south and to northern India in the west. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Hermes is seventy-three million kilometers from Mars right now. Only four light-minutes away. Beth Johanssen is a great programmer. She could talk Mark through it." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sensed frustration from her, like she had a million questions and no idea where to start. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir, that mouse is a mouse in a million,” he often told himself. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Is it possible that ordinary German people did not know about the systematic murder of millions of people? Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a population of about eleven million, the country boasted more doctors per capita than any other country in the world, and twice as many per capita as the United States. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Surrounding the R-complex is the limbic system or mammalian brain, which evolved tens of millions of years ago in ancestors who were mammals but not yet primates. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mentioned it,” said Finn, though Charlie had told him a million times, and would tell him a million more. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Bronx is an amazing place, home to over a million people. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The ship is made of millions of separate parts assembled redundantly, so that if some component fails, others will take over its responsibilities. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees and hills have become our friends, helping us stay hidden from the millions of city eyes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Yet when it succeeds, it gives Sapiens immense power, because it enables millions of strangers to cooperate and work towards common goals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In Erickson’s hypothetical reconstruction, as many as a million people may have walked the causeways of eastern Bolivia in their long cotton tunics, heavy ornaments dangling from their wrists and necks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Aberdeen Lake State Penitentiary was shut down in 1981 after a riot that lasted for three weeks.Three weeks is about thirty-six million miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then the entire pane bursts, exploding into a million pieces just as Alec is trying to get his balance and lift himself off of Boss’s body. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The resulting lines permit us to tell that stars millions of light-years away contain the same chemical elements as our Sun and the nearby stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Approximately forty million were in North America and Mexico. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

She asks a million questions about my friends’ parents—what part of Mexico they’re from, what church they go to, where they work—but today, nothing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the time an extreme amplification peaks out. an eyedropper of the victim’s blood may contain a hundred million particles of virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helpful Helpdesk Inc. took millions of calls a day, from all over the world. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I’d spent the last three days in close quarters with the guy, getting razzed by the other campers and embarrassed a million times a day, constantly reminded that I was related to him. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s four”—she gulped, hand to her throat, and recovered—“four dead horses in there. And millions of flies...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a dark gray basalt, and she used to hold it to her forehead, and it would immediately make her feel better: two and a half million years, right there against her skin. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It certainly didn't look like the kind of place that would contain a treasure that was worth five million lire. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In those homes I saw the best of us, but behind each of them I knew that there were so many millions gone. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When I got to the museum, all of a sudden I wouldn't have gone inside for a million bucks. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow I'll have to do a million equipment checks and try to figure out what exploded, but for now I just want to sleep. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked it and I did not like it; I longed to be among them, yet when with them I looked at them as if I were a million miles away. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not in a million years could I imagine Wheelie doing this. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

More than eight million people lived in New York City that year, so of course, not everyone’s day started perfectly. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Belmont was already talking with CBS Radio, which was offering to broadcast the race live worldwide, predicting that twenty million sets would be tuned to it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Care for these ten persons alone exceeded one million dollars,” he reported. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The sabre-tooth cats, after flourishing for more than 30 million years, disappeared, and so did the giant ground sloths, the oversized lions, native American horses, native American camels, the giant rodents and the mammoths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a million miles away from the flat odor of damp city concrete. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Anna Auntie rolled her eyes good-naturedly, like she’d heard this a million times before. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s a saying. It means a lot. Actually, something like fifteen million birds will fly through here. You’ll see how people from all over come to see them. It’s like a people migration, too.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

More than eight million villagers were forcibly removed from their ancestral homes in a Joint US and South Vietnam program. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sealed away behind an electrified fence during the 1990s, Shin was unaware that millions of his countrymen were desperately hungry. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But if he did win, and he did get ten million free and clear, he would buy his mom a house. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like that all had happened a million years ago. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Inside my head, there are a million angry monkeys. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The finale was supposed to be a couple of hundred-foot-tall Spartan warriors who would crackle to life above the ocean, fight a batde, then explode into a million colors. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And if several million Irish pounds’ worth of property damage happened to ensue, well, that was just a bonus. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Who knows when another ‘accident’ involving millions of men will happen, an ‘accident’ that will be the dreadful day of our doom? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Back on Earth, universities and governments are willing to pay millions to get their hands on Mars rocks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of 2007, more than 7 million Americans—or one in every 31 adults—were behind bars, on probation, or on parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We’ve argued about stupid stuff a million times over the years, but this feels different. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The system informed me that I’d received over two million new unsolicited messages. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It’s like all of a sudden he let go a million moths all over the dusty furniture and swan-neck shadows and in our bones. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Aaa, I’d like to tell you. We came sixty million miles.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I want to be like the Wolfman and talk to a million people at once. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s raining so hard that her wipers are going a million miles an hour. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

By early 2000, United States prisons and jails held nearly 2 million people, meaning that one out of every 140 residents was behind bars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could have been anyone - just another nameless spirit among millions. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

One of the other things they should care about, according to Harriet, the cleaning lady who came once a week and who was about a million years old, was staining the bathtub. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, when Snyder was pressed on his figure of 3 million homeless, he admitted that it was a fabrication. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Over a hundred million years,” Kavita replies, even though I wasn’t asking her. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

So the world we live in is almost brand new—older in some places than others but, in comparison to the 2 million years of tool-making history, box-fresh. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

No one who spends a million notes on a power-up can be. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then I put an “X” right next to it, on a corner where an apartment probably costs $20 million, and write Bobby's pad. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He’s just as attracted to Henry’s cloudy tempers, the way he comes back from them, and the millions of shades in between. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time, Mama would sing while washing laundry or cooking dinner or any of a million chores that had to be done around the house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’m convinced the world wants me to shut up, that I’m better off folding myself into a million pieces. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

More than nine million people a year come to the Smokies, many of them to picnic. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"And look at the trouble those half million have caused," says Hugo matter-of-factly. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

And James Abram Garfield became the twentieth president of the United States, a sprawling country of 50 million people. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Other than the obvious reason of not wanting to give away twenty million dollars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

And soon it would explode with the power of ten million tons of dynamite. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He may make a million snap judgments about a customer’s needs and state of mind, but he tries never to judge anyone on the basis of his or her appearance. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In January 1996, Fischer led a high-profile fund-raising ascent of Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, that netted half a million dollars for the charity CARE. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Shout her name from the rooftops? This isn’t Cairnholm; it’s a city of millions!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I told my parents, like, a million times, don’t do a fancy dinner, let’s just get pizza or something, don’t make it weird. And what do they do? They make it weird.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

While Keira went to bed, I’d stayed here at the table, my head in my hands, wondering how I could have been stupid enough to reveal myself to five hundred million people. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You mean you own land worth a million dollars?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was also bereft of the millions of dollars he would have received had the two men played. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But my worry over her mother coming home and finding us there wrestled a million other troubling thoughts, and I couldn’t relax. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Through millions of years of isolation, a unique collection of animals evolved there. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time I prayed for a million dollars, to test Him, and didn’t get one dime.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

New Hampshire’s Mount Washington is still an imposing presence, but the stony mass that rises from the New England woods today represents, at most, the stubby bottom one-third of what was ten million years ago. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the reality of the USSR, millions of people were tortured and starved to death in the first years of the Communist Party state. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter if the prize had been a valuable manuscript or a million dollars or a stuffed walrus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

More than 1 million of them became rattled by it. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The ones who excavated a million tons of rock and dirt, toiled in the belly of the earth for the deliverance of slaves like her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In Brazil alone, over a million people considered themselves partly or wholly German. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Just a bit more than two weeks, around twenty-four million miles, after my seventeenth birthday, the Perseids scattered brilliant torrents of blazing dust all across the nighttime sky. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

One would house a thief, a person in possession of an object worth millions of dollars. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“School is too all over the place. It spirals out into a million different things.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Those original white “Christian traders” sent into China millions of pounds of opium. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below Big Brother comes the Inner Party, its numbers limited to six millions, or something less than two per cent of the population of Oceania. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The great libraries of the world contain millions of volumes, the equivalent of about 1014 bits of information in words, and perhaps 1015 bits in pictures. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big difference between these numbers matters less than one might expect: a few thousand square miles of farmland was enough to feed the millions in the Maya heartland. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Woodwell is about a million years old now, and mostly retired, but once upon a time about half the working boats in Spinney Cove come out of his shed. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The 3.2 million square feet of office space actually under construction in Midland was equivalent to the amount in San Antonio, Fort Worth, and Austin combined. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe singing, which I wouldn’t do for the Capitol in a million years. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subde clue that nobody wanted him around. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was going to become one of the most depraved parasitical hustlers among New York’s eight million people—four million of whom work, and the other four million of whom live off them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she said this, it struck me that she could not read, like millions of other blacks who worked for whites. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malia is sitting on the rug surrounded by a million Lego pieces. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

There were about a million words worth of secret government and military documents, and another 1.5 million of narrative history written by the researchers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If you count all the chickens, pigs, and fish, there are hundreds of millions of food animals raised on factory farms every year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“A few, a million years ago,” Heidi says, holding a red T-shirt up to me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I thought of the million sins that had been revealed in this small, dark space. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There may be a million worlds in the Milky Way Galaxy alone that at this moment are inhabited by beings who are very different from us, and far more advanced. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slid the needle into the forearm of a woman who’d recently been hospitalized for leukemia, then pushed the plunger, injecting about five million of Henrietta’s cells into her arm. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then she would've cracked a joke about it taking me a million hours to do forty-five minutes' worth of work, which is why Doris assigned it to me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the wetness in the clouds condensed into tiny drops half mist and half rain, which floated downward rather than fell, making a soft rustling patter among the millions of needles. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were millions of stars surrounding the crescent moon. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

More recently, we have learned how to use electromagnetic fields to give particles energies of at first millions and then thousands of millions of electron volts. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one end it eats millions of bushels of corn fed to it every day by the trainload. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The members discussed the largest man-made explosion in history to that point—in 1917, in Halifax Harbor, Canada, a ship packed with millions of pounds of bombs and ammunition caught fire and blew up. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed one of the million apples we’d brought back from our farmers’ market trip and stomped off to my room to call Dad before going to Calaca to meet up with the band. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

David knew about plankton from biology—they were also called krill: millions of tiny, some almost microscopic, shrimp-like animals that filled the oceans of the world. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the prophecy made at Half-Blood Hill, what seemed like a million years ago. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My favorite rocks to find were geodes, which Monyaid came from the volcanoes that had erupted to form the Tuscarora Mountains millions of years ago, during the Miocene period. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After we came home in the morning, we quietly ate leftovers from the party the night before, which felt like a million years ago. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A quarter million dollars of hard-earned money that had been invested in house and home was gone. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Quite an achievement when you consider that these animals had survived in Bryce Canyon for tens of millions of years before the Park Service took an interest in them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the tide line a woven mat of weeds and the ribs of fishes in their millions stretching along the shore as far as eye could see like an isocline of death. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A gallery in New York exhibited a collection of 2 million live army ants, on loan from Central America, in a one-colony show entitled “Patterns and Structures.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silence terrifies you more than the pounding of a million pieces of steel chopping away at your flesh. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

There, resting in his open palm, was the Copper Key, the item for which millions of people had been searching for the past five years. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

What if the children kept coming like the millions of flies constantly buzzing around them? Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They had made millions and millions since Gram Hilda had disinherited them. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I would either win a million dollars, or I’d get nothing. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But it's cold outside, and the coffee is real, and despite what I just told Mrs. Janssen about my millions of tasks, I actually have an hour before my parents expect me for lunch. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I made the discovery that Bigger Thomas was not black all the time; he was white, too, and there were literally millions of him, everywhere. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he launches into a million questions about where pearls come from. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or concocting a pass-fail test—he was famous for that type—where he threaded together questions that could throw a guy for a loss, with what seemed like a million possible answers. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If things got worse in Europe, philanthropic spending would grind to a halt in the United States; even if the war clouds dispelled, millions of dollars would shift to Europe for economic reconstruction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"So you tellin' me, you wouldn't trade Jazz for a million bucks?" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

At the same time, grasses have evolved over millions of years to be eaten by cows. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

If Kasim could make me feel like a million dollars, then I want it to be a million dollars of love and not actually a million dollars. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

On average, the United States approves one million applicants annually as permanent residents. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The army of the Zulu king, Shaka, began a bloody campaign to conquer the land surrounding his kingdom, and this path of terror and destruction caused millions to flee. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“No wonder. He probably burned about six million calories.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At each such division, the number shrinks colossally–yet even with the most conservative inputs the number of advanced civilizations just in the Milky Way always works out to be somewhere in the millions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But he had five million and few choices. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The gases on Venus can be identified from the Earth, 60 million kilometers away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched Hotel Rwanda, the movie about the bloody genocide in Rwanda that left as many as a million people dead. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“A million,” said Oliver, still squinting suspiciously at his parents. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

However, archaeological excavations, and scrutiny of descriptions left by the very first European explorers on our coasts, now suggest an initial number of around 20 million Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a minute she allowed herself to hang deep underwater, floating somewhere between utter desolation and euphoria, all alone and yet surrounded by the hands of a million murmuring ancestors. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Sitting among the lacy needles, the image of the one mountain among thousands, the one tree among millions, and Sam came to mind. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There had been fire for thousands, millions of years. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

A similar death rate in the United States would claim about twelve million lives. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Just sixty-five million years ago our ancestors were the most unprepossessing of mammals—creatures with the size and intelligence of moles or tree shrews. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our ship is a galleon, weathered from a million voyages going back to ages even darker than this. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Compared with the tens of millions of people in ancient China or Mesoamerica, that meant that Australia had far fewer potential inventors, and far fewer societies to experiment with adopting innovations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It will take about three hundred million years for them to collide. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do I hear a million?” the auctioneer shouts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I told her, “He had cells, and now they’re on rooftops, and in the river, and in the lungs of millions of people around New York, who breathe him every time they speak!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The cautious Weaver, adding an expansion factor for Ernest’s ambitions but still thinking too small, had privately recalculated the budget at $ 1 million for construction and another $500,000 for ten years of operation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Even by this means, Islam was on the march, but I knew that with improved public relations methods the number of new converts turning to Allah could be turned into millions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bahamas, Belize, and the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon sold them millions of gallons of liquor. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“He watched the video you sent a million times. It was all he talked about the day before the operation. I know we are going to be hearing this song a lot too.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Today, the paper chain hits one million links. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They kept growing like nothing anyone had seen, doubling their numbers every twenty-four hours, stacking hundreds on top of hundreds, accumulating by the millions. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’d never in a million years recommend...” “... you see what she had on? Who does she...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Even if he did want that, there are a million reasons why this will never, ever be possible. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Lord, he wished a million times he’d never helped buy that stupid doll. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The trauma to Manson’s geology had come not from within the Earth, but from at least 100 million miles beyond. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

What about the two hundred million dollars, the heirs wanted to know. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The order left both sides unhappy: Northern abolitionists were dissatisfied because the Emancipation Proclamation did not outlaw slavery everywhere; Southern slaveholders were enraged because it freed millions of slaves living in their states. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The German blitzkrieg drove deep into Soviet territory, capturing millions of soldiers and quickly approaching the Soviet capital of Moscow. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you consider the idea that a hundred million viruses could cover the dot on this i, then you get an idea of the sharpness of a diamond knife. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until about 200 million years ago Eurasia and the Americas were lashed together in a single landmass that geologists call Pangaea. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They are composed of about fifty million atoms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben replied, “Some people think freckles are cute. I don’t. It looks to me like millions of ants pooped on your face.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was two days later that they discovered the combined accounts were worth more than forty-eight million dollars. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jackie had brought nail polish with her, so we painted our fingernails and told the same jokes we’d told about a million times before. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But when six million is the number you’re up against, it’s pretty puny. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

My mom said, “Jackson really liked A Hole Is To Dig. Remember that book, Jackson? We must’ve read that to you a million times.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A million years from now, when the rest of the city had crumbled, the bridge would probably remain like a fossilized bone. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the Milky Way Galaxy there must be many planets millions of years older than Earth, and some that are billions of years older. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weaver advised his hosts carefully that the foundation might be able to contribute $1 million as an absolute limit, but that was only a guess. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“You have a life stretching out in front of you with a million possibilities,” Gat says. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Forget the million doh lars. He’s missing out on something more important.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The citizens of London sent fifty million pounds, to keep the menagerie up, and the ladies of Britain constructed a pair of black velvet carpet slippers with the Waifs initials embroidered in gold. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, six million Jews were exterminated, but five million other civilians were, too. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

By my senior year of high school, I can say with total confidence, I'd seen my dad cry approximately one million times. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The open source movement has grown to more than eight million users, perhaps the geekiest social movement on the Net, since its members and passionate adherents are programmers and designers. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their spread was accomplished by collecting beetles from the original colonies and redistributing them at the rate of millions a year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The whole world would be a few masters and millions upon millions of slaves. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The millions of soldiers fighting Hitler are part of the world. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Among these living carriers were fish that had hatched nine months after the last DDD application, grebes, and California gulls that had built up concentrations of more than 2000 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

To stand in the farm equipment warehouse, surrounded by a million links of paper chain, piled to the ceiling, is an emotional experience that’s hard to describe. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

That’s a useful lesson for Coca-Cola or Nike, who have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on marketing and can afford to saturate all forms of media with their message. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would never work there in a million years.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Eight thousand people had been killed in just two weeks in August in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the fighting was raging, and millions had fled their homes in the months before. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It sounds like he repeats this a million times a day. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Of the Forest Service’s 150 million acres of loggable land, about two-thirds is held in store for the future. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The number of cows slaughtered in Chicago grew from a quarter million in 1875 to two and a quarter million in 1890. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Can you just invent millions of people? he wondered. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mom, on the other hand, has a dozen pairs of leggings, three well-worn pairs of jeans, and probably a million cool T-shirts. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I thought them keeping Amélie’s picture from me was awful, but this is a million times worse. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I know Jesus washed the feet of his disciples to cleanse them and make them feel part of the Church blah blahdeblah blah blah, but that was about a million years ago. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I would say we were like the three musketeers, or the three amigos, but that's so played and has been said a million times. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Aunt Tuti returned to the hostess stand and took out her phone, texting a million miles an hour. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It seems to me that if schools spend money on field trips and football equipment, they should spend just as much on something that's a million times more important. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There were still more than half a million US troops in Vietnam, and weekly death tolls continued to mount. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was using the exact same markers as me, but somehow when she drew with them, her drawings looked a million times better than mine. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists, he said, keep searching for the settlements in which those millions of people supposedly lived. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Although Malcolm X is no longer with us physically, tens of millions have gotten to know him through this timeless volume that you now hold in your hands. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the bugs were worked out of the Bonsack machines, Duke churned cigarettes out of his factories at an unprecedented rate—823 million in 1889—and at a price his competition couldn’t match. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The shrieking siren, the crowd gazing up at her, the lights of New Pretty Town all spread out below like a million candles. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It takes honeybee workers ten million foraging trips to gather enough nectar to make one pound of honey. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a million ways to ask what I wanted to know and I chose the worst one when I said, “What in Sam Hill are you going to do with a doggone rock?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I'm in her arms, feeling like a million pounds have been lifted off my shoulders. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her entire body was invaded by millions of uncertainties. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m not making a million rands, Mama,” I said, laughing. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both knew that Finkle didn’t want me to have a chance to warm up before my million dollar shot. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I do my best to please everyone, more than they’d ever suspect in a million years. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you like me the way I am? I’m not a genius! I can’t play the piano. And even if I could, I wouldn’t go on TV if you paid me a million dollars!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was as small as a drop of dew quivering on a spider’s web; she was a minute in an hour in a day in a million years. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Since these speeches were in part rehearsal for when, as the local Member of the Legislative Assembly, Comrade Pillai would address thronging millions, there was something odd about their pitch and cadence. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will never leave you, not in a million years. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A sign next to one of the tanks had said that there are 150 million jellyfish stings every year. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Besides,” she went on, her eyes twinkling, “some incredible things have been happening in the real estate market since the sixties. I just sold Garland for seventeen million dollars.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Her eyes looked stormy, like her mind was racing a million miles an hour. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knew they would not take this news lying down, not in one million years. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cost of labor went up, and suddenly millions of people were out of work. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to sit at home all day and talk to a million cousins. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are we living in a hotel? Why are we letting our son burn through five million dollars? This should make us all upset.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t stop thinking about those six million paper clips at that school in Tennessee,” I say. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“No, Rabbi, six million in Poland and Germany and Holland and France and ...” “My child, such a number.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The whole point,” I tell him seriously, “is so we can see how big a number six million really is.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The earth’s orbit is closer to the sun, at approximately 93 million miles. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lifetime of a human being is measured in decades; the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The environment contained these hostile elements even before there was life; yet life arose, and over the millions of years it came to exist in infinite numbers and endless variety. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We went in the shoe department and we pretended she--old Phoebe-- wanted to get a pair of those very high storm shoes, the kind that have about a million holes to lace up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

If I set a million meerkats fleeing in terror, the chaos would be indescribable. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Blanca would ask a million questions, and I went upstairs braced for another confrontation. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Always is their thing. They’ll always love each other and whatever. I would conservatively estimate they have texted each other the word always four million times in the last year.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

There’s a fire raging inside me, and I feel like I could burst into a million tiny embers. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There are one million young men roaming the streets in gangs, following in the footsteps of Ragen’s Colts, brandishing guns to protect their turf. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Some 500,000 slaves were brought here, and there were four million enslaved African Americans at the time of emancipation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In a hundred and fifty years there were two thousand millions. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leather is frayed and splattered with paint, but it’s still a million times better than the backpack I already can’t believe I let Mom buy me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Anthony would have wrapped it in a lecture on how it wouldn’t matter even if I didn’t stink, because no girl would want to come near me in a million years. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In their concentration camps, the Nazis murdered eleven million people, including over six million Jews. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

A million miles from here, a billion days ago, this happened. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Now, about one of every two Americans uses a cellphone; in 2004, there were 176 million subscribers, almost eight times the number a decade earlier, according to the market research firm IDC. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“That does me good! That’s worth millions of money and pecks of praise. Oh, Marmee, I do try! I will keep on trying, and not get tired, since I have you to help me.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The failed invasion cost the Germans heavily: More than one million German lives were lost. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I would bet a million dollars that she was thinking that she wished every day could be Halloween. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Five million lire for a broken wooden wing?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And I tried to tell you a million times, but I couldn’t.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

In just 200 million years, possibly less, the Earth was essentially formed, though still molten and subject to constant bombardment from all the debris that remained floating about. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The world that Milo knew was a million thoughts away, and the demons—the demons were there in the distance. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I want to ask her a million questions, but I'm afraid any familiarity would cause her harm. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

If Bobby could make millions, and if he continued tithing large amounts to the Church, he could emerge as one of the Church’s biggest benefactors. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Stone tools became common around 2.5 million years ago, but they were merely the crudest of flaked or battered stones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

FINN: In eight or nine hours, we will be more than half a million miles away from exactly this spot, no matter which way we go. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some of these people must have a million dollars at least, and yet, they keep doing these movies. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

History’s eyes and coming of age in their young nation and making a million mistakes. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to charge me a million dollars for a cupcake?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nunley was about a million years old, with bifocals and no teeth and a greasy wave of gray hair. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Everybody, Jane? Why, there are only eighty people who have heard you called so, and the world contains hundreds of millions.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It would have been awesome to come home with a giant check for ten million dollars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like I’m watching this happen from a million miles away. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

On the morning of September 2, more than half a million people crowded into an open square in the city of Hanoi. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I've asked my mom a million times to tell me stories about Afghanistan. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

These are the descendants of the fifteen million original inhabitants of the land, the majority of whom were farmers who lived in towns. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Stone tools indicate human arrival as early as half a million years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people--with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

But millions of other Germans were simply apathetic about the news of Hitler’s appointment. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

So far, with the help of Jerome, she had managed to extract nearly three million dollars from Kaira’s trust account. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

By the end of 1967, Johnson had nearly half a million troops in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t showered or put on clean clothes in the millions of miles since I said good-bye to Julia Bishop. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

"At least the guilt is not on our hands," Mr. Hoo said, trying to convince himself that a clear conscience was worth two hundred million dollars. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Kermit wrote to his father, “I didn’t think I had a chance in a million nor did anyone else,” he brushed off the incident, writing that it was “the chances of the game.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

But it isn’t hunger that drives millions of armed American males to forests and hills every autumn, as the high incidence of heart failure among the hunters will prove. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, if millions took this path before, why am I not braver? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Darwin's “gemmule” theory—that hereditary instructions were thrown adrift by all cells and then floated in the blood, like a million messages in bottles—suggested that blood transfusions might transmit gemmules and thereby alter heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was the beginning of a ferocious and bloody battle that would last nearly six months and cost two million people their lives. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

All of that human history, for the first 5 or 6 million years after our origins about 7 million years ago, remained confined to Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he let SJ keep going because when would he get to see her all absorbed in debate research and talking a million miles per minute again? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ten million black men and women are laboring long hours in unskilled jobs, earning barely enough to get by. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I think she’s said it about eight million times in the last twelve hours. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The cost for my survival must have been hundreds of millions of dollars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry was reminded of Uncle Vernon pacing the living room a million years ago. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When the United States entered World War I, some 2.7 million men were drafted into the army, and more than 300,000 volunteered for duty. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

As we run the Big Dipper backward into the past, allowing for the motion of its stars, we find quite a different appearance a million years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is the most visited memorial in Washington, DC, attracting three million visitors every year. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

A race builds itself for a million years, refines itself, erects cities like those out there, does everything it can to give itself respect and beauty, and then it dies. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prediction in history, as in other historical sciences, is most feasible on large spatial scales and over long times, when the unique features of millions of small-scale brief events become averaged out. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And beyond that a mile and a mile, and a million million miles, all in the empty blue. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That sounds so fun. I have a million questions!” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We see the miracle of nature’s control at work when the cod move through winter seas to their spawning grounds, where each female deposits several millions of eggs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It is thought that similar but even larger black holes, with masses of about a hundred million times the mass of the sun, occur at the centers of quasars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Aureus epidemic. We had plenty of warnings that something like that could happen and it eventually did. It took him and twenty million people with him.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Several million light-years across, it is composed of some twenty constituent galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Assuming this represented a single layer of atoms, Halley calculated that a cube of gold with a side one-hundredth of an inch long would contain more than 2.433 million atoms. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

To millions of Americans, the season’s first robin means that the grip of winter is broken. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The expression 7.39842 x 1010 is more comprehensible and legible than seventy- three billion nine hundred and eighty-four million and two hundred thousand. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A million little kids were downtown with their mothers, getting on and off buses and coming in and out of stores. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The creatures were roaming city streets, threatening millions of New Yorkers. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Their homes might have been worth half a million dollars, but they still expected Armpit’s boss to reimburse them five bucks if Armpit accidentally stepped on a daffodil. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

By the 1920s they had dwindled to forty or fifty million in the entire hemisphere. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His mind was a million miles away, in the devastated zone inside the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Chevalier looked down on the slow-moving millions on the floor of the land of the dead, all drifting after that bright and living spark Lyra Silvertongue. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Not zero in a million. It could work.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In the past twenty-five years, in dollars corrected for inflation, the annual international arms trade has gone from $300 million to much more than $20 billion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every year North Korea needs to produce more than five million tons of rice and cereal grain to feed its twenty-three million people. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The key itself was marvelous—the oldest I’d seen in Sing Sing, thin and short, with two circles cut out of the grip and the edges softened by a million touches. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are over three quarters of a million volumes here, and that’s not even taking into consideration the clays or scrolls or fragments from Caluptena.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was perhaps a hundred fifty million miles back, in February, I got into a fight with Blake Grunwald. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“She sure is our bird. She has little heart-shaped black spots on her breast feathers. I looked at them a million times from my bedroom window.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Dunse’s heard it. We all done heard it. A million times.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Groves returned the favor by delivering the keynote at the presentation of Lawrence’s Presidential Medal in 1946, declaring, “We bet a hundred million on him and won.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Hollow-eyed women and children, the casualties of a million cruelties, ran after Pennsy’s engines as they sped past. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There were a million men and boys running in the same direction. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

And today Earthbound is a company that takes in $400 million a year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The film grossed more than $7 million and was nominated for an Academy Award. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not until more than two million years later do we meet the earliest evidence of toolmaking. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island Indians, whose estimated population at the time of their “discovery” exceeded a million, were rapidly exterminated on most islands by disease, dispossession, enslavement, warfare, and casual murder. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It seemed like you were a million miles away today,” she said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve called her a million times and she hasn’t called me back. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Momma and Dad had threatened to send Byron to Grandma Sands about a million times but we never thought it would happen. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a final roar, the giant splintered into a million tiny fragments of darkness. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

All those women having jobs: hard to imagine, now', but thousands of them had jobs, millions. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We all knew there was no chance of reaching six million links. And even if we could, the school district would never approve that much money just for paper!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The bone marrow is the chief producer of red blood cells throughout life, sending some 10 million new cells per second into the bloodstream of man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

"What the hell, you trying to sabotage the company? That stuff wouldn't work in a million years. It's remover, concentrated remover! Don't you know the difference?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why shouldn’t the Muslims be subsidized to save millions of dollars a year for the government and the cities? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said “real” like it had a million letters in it. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him now twenty million silently baying Hounds ricocheted across parlours, three-cushion shooting from right wall to centre wall to left wall, gone, right wall, centre wall, left wall, gone! Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I been up and down the creek in it a million times, and all over the harbor, too. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Having no natural controls in this new territory, they spread prodigiously, eventually occupying about 60 million acres. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The world has changed in a million ways. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war left 53 million dead, mostly young men in their late teens and early twenties. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it was a ridiculous thought, but millions of miles are sometimes difficult to bridge. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Very early I figured out there were millions of words in the world. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Especially if I see millions of people standing in one of those long, terrible lines, all the way down the block, waiting with this terrific patience for seats and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Some people speak of animal liberation, but what would liberation mean to the millions of cows and chickens on our farms? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

What good was having millions of dollars at your fingertips if you couldn’t use it to buy what you really, really needed? Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The giant diprotodon appeared in Australia more than 1.5 million years ago and successfully weathered at least ten previous ice ages. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A million times I wondered why the sparse library at my tribal school did not carry books like Treasure Island, why most of the books we read had tribal points of view. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was young, American schoolchildren were taught that North America had originally been occupied by only about one million Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The one mountain among thousands of mountains, the one tree among millions of trees, and somewhere there, the one boy. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Others carried heavy residues; a sample of peas analyzed at Cornell University’s Agricultural Experiment Station contained 14 to 20 parts per million of DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

For tens of millions of years these enormous, intelligent, communicative creatures evolved with essentially no natural enemies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry looks at him like he’s trying to choose between a million choice words, before tipping his head to the side and offering up a well-rehearsed laugh, putting his arm around Alex too. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Sure it will. Trust me. I’ve been here a million times,” she said and patted the dock next to her. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Thus I have created an opportunity for Lambert to earn back everything I took from the city—a fortune totaling $40 million at my last reckoning. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You must have written a million words by now,” said Malcolm X. “Probably,” I said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel bad, ain’t no two ways about it, my skin’s tingling and sometimes I’m shivering and sometimes I’m sweating and sometimes my head weighs a million pounds. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The things were coming out from all around the rim now, millions of them, flooding toward the center of the pool, completely surrounding us. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

What was five dollars to heirs of an estate worth two hundred million? The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem at the root of such calamities is that humans evolved for millions of years in small bands of a few dozen individuals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The disaster was as much cultural as demographic; the Maya continued to exist by the million, but their central cities did not. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could get you a million of ’em.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

About four million of those deaths were caused by starvation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My heart’s thumping a million beats and my legs are about to fall off my body but still we run. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Giddiness and doubt and awe, all those things and a million more. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Twelve and a half million—that’s what the new Conditioning Centre cost. Not a cent less.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z