Quote Originally Posted by hornylimerick View Post
simple million in the context she's using it


million (millions plural )
The plural form is million after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as `several' or `a few'.
1 num A million or one million is the number 1,000,000.
Up to five million people a year visit the county..., Profits for 1999 topped £100 million.

2 quant-plural If you talk about millions of people or things, you mean that there is a very large number of them but you do not know or do not want to say exactly how many.

The programme was viewed on television in millions of homes.
The same logic applies to hundred(s) and thousand(s) and even ten(s). In fact any pairing of these can be used to indicate a very broad estimate as in tens of millions or hundreds of thousands.

Fascinating, isn't it?