The phrase "approached one million" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing numbers, statistics, or milestones that are nearing the one million mark.
Example: "The population of the city has approached one million, prompting discussions about infrastructure improvements."
Alternatives: "neared one million" or "came close to one million".
The first print run was 200,000 copies, but newsstands clamored for more, and sales soon approached one million a month.
In 1990, as the population served by Denver Water approached one million (this includes suburbs), plans for the Two Forks dam, a massive new project, were on the drawing board.
Finally, the number of oocyte-specific genes approached one hundred.
Launched last December, the app is approaching one million downloads and activity on the app is picking up like crazy due to a recent upgrade that adds the ability to check into Yelp locations and Tweet them out or share them on Facebook.
We're in a party mood on Guardian Books: our Twitter account is approaching one million followers, after four years of fascinating conversations with an engaged and passionate community.
Two years ago, the name of Babe Ruth Baseball's largest division was changed to Cal Ripken Baseball, a program whose number of players around the world is approaching one million.
So far about 600,000 contestants have filled out the brackets online, and Sandbox's 30-year-old president, Lawrence M. Cotter, said he expected the total to approach one million contestants before the contest, called It's Madness, closes at noon today.
Meanwhile, its view-only iPhone app for watching live video streams is approaching one million downloads.
Meanwhile, Patrick Schmidt, CEO of THE ICONIC, notes that The Iconic is "approaching one million orders being shipped" in Australia.
The more people who use buzzd, which is approaching one million active users per month, the bigger the database becomes and the more accurate buzzd can pinpoint a user's location.
