Collocations for "millions"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "millions" in context.
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million
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.cardinal
- [half, a quarter of] a million
- could [reach, total, number] millions
- the [drought, war, disaster] affected millions
- there must be millions of [reasons, answers, possibilities]
- millions (of people) will [benefit, suffer]
- millions of lives could be [lost, saved]
- [earn, win, make] your first million
- won [10] million on the lottery
- investors [made, lost] millions on the markets
- the [cost, bill, value] runs into millions
- a [population, fortune] of [five] million
- is a [friend, father, girl] in a million
- you are one in a million
- thanks a million!
- was a one-in-a-million [chance, shot]
- million-to-one odds (that)
- has (over) a million [dollars, members]
- there are a million things to [see, do, visit]
- is a million miles away
- a million miles from [home, anywhere, here]
- is not a million miles (away) from
- (a population of) sixty million people
- are a million billion of them
- the million-dollar question (is)
- that's the million-dollar question!
- a million-dollar [fortune, payout, prize, reward]
- [you have, there is] a one-in-a-million chance of [winning, finding, meeting]
'millions' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
abroad
- advertisement
- advertising
- agent
- audience
- commission
- commuter
- cost
- crash
- desert
- diamond
- disappear
- disaster
- disrupt
- divorce
- endorsement
- enhancement
- evolve
- exist
- flock
- follower
- funnel
- gross
- handset
- hero
- life
- lifestyle
- million
- poverty
- profession
- rake
- ransom
- reader
- recall
- reel
- resort
- risk
- sparkling
- squander
- summer
- swindle
- thunderstorm
- view
- watch