Including seasonal workers and their dependants, they account for at least 1m people, perhaps 2m.

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To be viable, the big pipeline would need to be carrying at least 1m barrels of crude per day.

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At least 1m refugees escaping from fighting and drought in Afghanistan are now facing famine, according to the United Nations.

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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.

ECONOMIST: Russian tourism

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.

ECONOMIST: Angola

Already 53 cities have at least 1m inhabitants.

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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.

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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.

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This project will cost about 1m rand, and at least ten like it are in the pipeline.

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Wells Fargo claims that 1m of its customers have at least tried banking online.

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