1.   DirecTV says it hopes to add nearly two million new subscribers in the coming year.

2.   Brittain Associates of Atlanta found in September that First USA and MBNA had already won nearly two million platinum customers.

3.   During a trip in which he stooped to kiss the Virgin of Guadalupe, nearly two million people jammed the streets.

4.   Few new jobs are being created, but this year nearly two million Mexicans will enter the work force.

5.   Kisangani, called Stanleyville in colonial times, is an important city of nearly two million people and the capital of a diamond-producing province, Orientale.

6.   Nearly two million people die of tuberculosis each year.

7.   Prodigy Services Inc., which once had nearly two million users, has withered significantly.

8.   Q. As of last August, you owned nearly two million Amazon shares.

9.   That adds up to nearly two million bottles each year.

10.   According to the WHO, there are nearly three million new TB cases in southeast Asia every year and nearly two million new cases in sub-Saharan Africa.