1.   And it has built four new automated warehouses that give it the capacity to pack, wrap and ship nearly a million boxes a day.

2.   And just upriver from Brackendale lies Whistler, a mammoth ski resort and vacation home community which already draws nearly a million visitors a year.

3.   A power outtage cut off electricity to nearly a million people Tuesday, creating a traffic nightmare in the city by the bay.

4.   But nearly a million American children are still believed to have elevated lead levels in their blood , with consequences that can include a lowering of I.Q.

5.   But the armed forces that swallowed up Vaughan and nearly a million other blacks were almost entirely separate from white units, with little pretense of being equal.

6.   Campaign aides said the message was directed to nearly a million homes.

7.   Clogged arteries and bad hearts carry off nearly a million Americans a year, about as many as all other diseases and disasters combined.

8.   Every year, nearly a million people die of cardiovascular diseases.

9.   For three months, they led the Hutu population into a massive, door-to-door slaughter that left nearly a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus dead.

10.   How is it that nearly a million black men could amass at the steps of the national legislature and not obtain something from their government?