That's how long it took for an international team of scientists to excavate and analyze the fossilized skeleton of a 4.4 million year old human ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus, which was discovered in Ethiopia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Because it has been said that each American soilder cost us one million dollars a year Ambassodor is so much cheaper.

有人说一个美国士兵每年要花费一百万美元,相比之下，大使是如此廉价。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I meet over four million people a year,

一年能见四百多万人，

我就是超人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimated that fishing operations kill more than one hundred million sharks every year.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

Aluminum is 25 million tons per year for the whole planet.

铝的产量为每年2500万吨,全世界。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Without new treatments,the W.H.O.says, the number of new cancer patients could reach twenty-seven million a year by two thousand thirty.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Malaria causes a million deaths per year, and schistosomiasis, which is a parasitic disease, is unfortunately a common cause of death in the world.

疟疾每年造成一百万死亡,而血吸虫病,这是一种寄生虫病,不幸的是,它是世界上很常见的死因

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It represents more than a million students every year who entered ninth grade but do not complete twelfth grade.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

His income alone in one year was 31 million dollars and then he made another 47 million dollars in endorsements for a Nike and other companies.

他一年的收入有3100万,另外他为耐克和其他公司代言,又能赚4700万。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The group says the low cost vaccines could save as many as seven million lives by the year twenty thirty.

VOA: special.2010.03.29

Diet, as we said before, is having a big impact, so estimates are that you can attribute two point six million deaths per year globally to low intake of fruits and vegetables.

如我们之前所说,饮食对健康至关重要,所以大致估计每年全球,有260万人的死亡可归结于,水果与蔬菜的摄入过少

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

More than one-fourth of the four million newborns who die each year around the world were born too early.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

The amount that we're spending for the year ending June 30,2008 is $843 million -that represents 37% of revenues--and we're projecting expenditures for the following year of $1.15 billion.

截至20008年6月30日,我们的年支出是8亿4千3百万美元,占了收入的37%,我们明年的支出预算是11亿5千万

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the United States alone, the number of infections in hospitals is estimated at close to two million each year.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

But then I ask them to think, and in the book I ask the readers to think: Well, have you given a cost of an expensive pair of shoes to save the life of one of the around 9 million children who are dying from poverty related causes each year around the world?

但是，接着我让他们思考，在书中，我让读者思考这样一个问题：,你有没有捐出过买一双鞋的钱,来拯救900万儿童中的一个生命？,他可能正因为贫困导致的种种问题,而生命垂危，每年世界上都会有这样的儿童？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Without new treatments, the WHO said, the number of new cancer patients could increase to 27 million a year by 2030.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

And that causes five to ten million deaths per year.

每年这会导致五百到一千万的人死亡

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Michael O'Donnell says the F.A.A.is spending between seven hundred fifty thousand and one million dollars a year on radar research.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

So his income was, in one year, $78 million.

所以他一年的总收入有7800万。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Critics of limiting hours say such a requirement could cost American hospitals about one billion seven hundred million dollars a year.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

This Cambridge History of Food talks about three separate primary phases in human food evolution: one beginning a million and a half years ago, another about 700,000 years ago, and then the 10,000 year ago one that I talked about just a moment ago.

剑桥饮食史》描述了,人类饮食结构演化过程中的三个不同阶段,其一,始于一百五十万年前,其二,距今约七十万年,其三,距今一万年,我们刚讨论过了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The goal is to enrich the experience of the more than two million people who visit the Capitol every year.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

The administration is also asking that Congress approve an additional two hundred seventy-eight million dollars for next year.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

They say funding dropped from about nine hundred thirty million dollars in two thousand seven to eight hundred seventy million last year.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

The World Health Organization says tobacco kills nearly five and a half million people a year -- another victim every six seconds.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

Asthma affects more than seven million children each year and is considered one of the leading childhood illnesses.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

They say the proposed changes could cost American hospitals about one billion six hundred million dollars a year.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Online advertising sales in China are estimated to bring Google only a few hundred million dollars a year.

VOA: special.2010.01.15

GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer have agreed to provide thirty million doses of the vaccine each year for ten years.

VOA: special.2010.03.29

They say thirty million tropical fish are disappearing every year because of a growing interest in tropical fish.

VOA: special.2010.08.10