Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
dreistelliger Millionenbetrag
English translation:
hundreds of millions
German term
Canada
dreistelliger Millionenbetrag
I have difficulties in formulating that in English.
| 3 +4 | hundreds of millions |
Klaus Dorn (X)
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| 5 | three-figure million amount |
Valentín Hernández Lima
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| 5 | three-digit million amount/investment |
Steffen Walter
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| 4 | nine-figure sum |
TonyTK
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Mar 21, 2006 15:26: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Marketing" to "Bus/Financial" , "Field (specific)" from "(none)" to "Business/Commerce (general)"
Proposed translations
Klaus Dorn (X)
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hundreds of millions
Spain
37 happy years translating for millions
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three-figure million amount
Please consider these examples taken from web pages.
Shortly after the donation, the company had received a three-figure million-credit from the Berlin Mortgage Bank whose...
Turnover is currently running in the three-figure million bracket.
The company should, through three-figure million (mark) investments in the biomass and wind energy sectors in particular, achieve further emissions reductions.
Cheers,
Val
Germany
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three-digit million amount/investment
...that we invested a three-digit million amount in our group
IMO, "three-digit" is more commonly used than "three-figure" (cf. URLs -> search for "three-digit").
HTH
Steffen :-)
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Note added at 2002-11-02 10:47:32 (GMT)
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plus loads of other Googles for \"three-digit\" used in the sense of \"dreistellig\"...
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Note added at 2002-11-02 12:28:25 (GMT)
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Unternehmensgruppe -> also \"group *of companies*\"
http://www.marcosbillions.com/marcos/Dictators%20milosevic%20BND%20report%20Oct%2016,%202000.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/airlines/story/0,1371,678019,00.html
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