Including seasonal workers and their dependants, they account for at least 1m people, perhaps 2m.
To be viable, the big pipeline would need to be carrying at least 1m barrels of crude per day.
At least 1m refugees escaping from fighting and drought in Afghanistan are now facing famine, according to the United Nations.
The Moscow hotel industry has also had a good summer, helped by the city's 850th anniversary celebrations in September, which drew at least 1m Russian and foreign visitors.
Nearly four years after a peace was signed in Zambia's capital, Lusaka, wide tracts of the country remain no-go areas, and at least 1m Angolans are still listed as displaced.
Among the qualifying conditions announced earlier this month is the bizarrely precise one that any bidder must have produced at least 1m tonnes of coke and 2m tonnes of rolled steel in Ukraine for the past three years, two of them profitably.
The number of cattle on Canadian farms rose from 13.5m at the start of 2003, to 14.7m a year later and to 15.1m at the beginning of this year.
According to Managing Director Sam Winkler, a device thoroughly treated with Liquipel 2.0 can actually achieve a liquid protection rating of at least IPX7: immersion at a depth of 1m for 30 minutes.
Having thousands of fans on the pitch is not just costly in terms of insurance, it's also wrecking the playing surface which will now have to be replaced ahead of schedule in 2010 at a cost of 1m euro.
On September 15th Argentina blocked imports of books, and over 1m piled up at the borders.
ARC's Louise Paterson believes 1m people are at risk of hypothermia.
Researchers at the Lincoln Laboratory reckon that 1m pixels should be possible within two years.
This project will cost about 1m rand, and at least ten like it are in the pipeline.
The application by the Whitefield Hebrew congregation to Bury Council is for the erection of three 1.1m-high posts at strategic points around the proposed eruv to complete its perimeter.
Wells Fargo claims that 1m of its customers have at least tried banking online.
Its system of distribution, which moves the sugary drink from bottling plants deep into slums and the bush a few crates at a time, may employ around 1m Africans.
The Environment Agency said it was taking the extra measures ahead of the river's expected peak at Ironbridge on Wednesday of between 5.1m and 5.3m.
In Tewkesbury it is expected to peak on Wednesday morning at 4.6m (15ft) which is almost 1m lower than in 2007.
Revenues at T-Online were 383m euros in the quarter, in-line with expectations, up from 270m a year ago, while at Tiscali they slipped to 179.9m from 190.1m the previous year.
It offers private universities tax breaks in return for giving around a tenth of their places free or at discounts to students on modest incomes, benefiting more than 1m pupils since 2005.
So far the wireless tests have only been conducted over a measly 1m, but the scientists reckon it'll work at distances up to 1km and that the concept could also be used to boost speeds in existing fiber-optic cables.
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The number of channel molecules present means that, in normal circumstances, about 70% of the free-floating outer channels are lined up with tethered inner ones at any given time, with each dual channel letting through about 1m sodium ions per second.
At the moment, those new infections are almost balanced by 2.1m deaths.
The machine is compact at 1.6m high, 0.9m deep and 2.1m wide, which would make it an ideal candidate for Post Offices which often have under-utilised space that could easily house a book-printing machine.
Since 1980, spending per student at Egypt's 15 state universities, with a current enrolment of nearly 1m students, has fallen by half.
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The Peter Principle sold over 1m copies, a remarkable feat for a book of its type at the time, and it spent no less than 33 weeks on the American bestsellers' list.
Hotheads snipe at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides for 1m-plus Gazan refugees, accusing it of turning into a security outfit, and labelling its few foreign personnel as spooks.
It should pinpoint the positions of 1m galaxies, and has already produced a map of their local distribution (see the diagram at the end of the previous article).
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