1.   An average contract that will pay him almost a million more per season than any teammate?

2.   And that is good news for Death Valley National Park, which draws almost a million visitors a year.

3.   Almost a million people a year visit Longwood Gardens near Kennett Square, Pa., the creation of Pierre S. du Pont.

4.   Brimelow is not the only one to ask why America should admit almost a million immigrants a year merely for them to re-create self-sufficient national enclaves on our shores.

5.   Democrats want to expand the bill to lower immigration barriers for almost a million people, including amnesty to hundreds of thousands living in the United States illegally.

6.   It draws almost a million people, all crammed together close to the Asakusa Shrine.

7.   The Newport Performing Arts Center is the largest on the coast, and the Oregon Coast Aquarium attracts almost a million visitors a year.

8.   Almost a million people were evacuated because of the flood and the death toll may have been in the thousands.

9.   Almost a million trees, most of them in residential yards, have been earmarked for destruction.

10.   Almost a million workers went to the polls Thursday to elect the president of the Confederation of Venezuela Workers.