1.   Its heroes are household names and millions of pounds are at stake when it is staged.

2.   Its life-cycle starts with a spore, of which there are countless millions in the atmosphere.

3.   Millions of Americans were dumbstruck by the news of the bombing.

4.   Millions of jobs are likely to be lost in the developed countries while Third World nations slump deeper into poverty.

5.   Millions of lives are at risk because of food shortages.

6.   Millions of pounds are at stake and one side is certain to receive a bloody nose.

7.   There are millions of different B-cells in the body that are ready to produce anti-bodies.

8.   There are millions of goods for sale in thousands of categories across hundreds of online auctions.

9.   There are still millions of poor and hungry people.

10.   There could be millions of pools, each of which held mortgages with particular characteristics, each pool in itself homogeneous.