Sentence examples for millions rather than from inspiring English sources

If the less populous China of the 19th century had urbanized when Europe did, we would have been talking about tens of millions, rather than hundreds of millions of migrants.

It is about greater opportunity for millions rather than privileges for the few.

The upper classes are similar, but with millions rather than billions of pounds to play with.

Yet their lending is measured in the hundreds of millions, rather than billions, of pounds.

By rapidly, astronomers mean in millions rather than billions of years.

Rushdie's interview with Barkha Dutt went ahead anyway, and was viewed by millions rather than the approximately 10,000 gathered on the Diggi Palace lawns.

The pattern included motifs pointing to the early 18th rather than the 17th century.

On August 8th, rather than turning over the master key, Levison shut down Lavabit.

But there are some advantages to building a square-rigger in the 21st, rather than the 19th century.

They were too horrified to notice that the photographs obviously dated from the 21st rather than the 19th century.

Instead of reading the fairy tale she plays the central role: On her 6th (rather than 16th) birthday, Anastasia pricks her hand and then, surprisingly, she sets off.