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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a million-to-one chance/a one in a million chance (= when something is extremely unlikely )
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It must have been a million-to-one chance that we’d meet.
a £20 million/$40 million etc fortune
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She is believed to have a £25 million fortune.
a £20 million/$40 million etc fortune
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She is believed to have a £25 million fortune.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cool million/hundred thousand etc
feel/look like a million bucks
in the vicinity of £3 million/$1,500/2 billion years etc
never/not in a million years
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You won't get Kieran to agree - not in a million years !
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He was rich as Croesus, something he had never expected to be, not in a million years .
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I still had to find Wally and attempt to explain what I would never in a million years be able to explain.
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It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction.
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Never. Not in a million years .
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No parent is going to believe this pigtail story, not in a million years .
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The real reason for her lack of promotion, she knew, would never in a million years occur to him.
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There was no point in all of this: she would never believe him. Not in a million years .
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You'd never in a million years see a dancing man in a field in the country.
to the tune of $1,000/£2 million etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By April 1981 the lake had a hundred million weevils, but in August came disaster.
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It sought a $ 400 million judgment.
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Jim sits in front of four computer screens, controlling de-inking equipment that cost $ 42 million to install.
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Latinos, with 2 million voters in California, are the fastest-growing minority in the country.
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Simons also is trying to find corporate donors to buy a $ 2. 5 million video scoreboard.
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The $ 150 million bond has not yet been priced, said spokeswoman Mercedes Poblete.
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The derivatives trading business lost $ 32 million in the quarter, compared with $ 28 million in profits a year earlier.