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I read the following sentence in an essay:

The number of visitors to France is approximately between 8 and 10 million each year.

Can I replace "and" with "to", as follows:

The number of visitors to France is approximately between 8 to 10 million each year.

JMP
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    No. Between requires and. You could change it to 'approximately 8-10 million' which would be spoken as 'eight to ten million'. – Kate Bunting Nov 25 '20 at 10:08
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    You can say "there are 8 to 10 million", but you can't say "between 8 to 10". – nnnnnn Nov 25 '20 at 10:08
  • There is no need for the word 'approximately' – clearly "8 to 10 million" is an approximate figure. Rephrased: "France has between 8 and 10 million visitors each year." – Weather Vane Nov 25 '20 at 10:23
  • No spaces before punctuation: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/4645/is-it-ever-correct-to-have-a-space-before-a-question-or-exclamation-mark#:~:text=There%20should%20be%20no%20space%20between%20a%20sentence,be%20preceded%20by%20a%20space%20is%20a%20dash. – JMP Nov 25 '20 at 10:31
  • 'From x to y' is synonymous with 'between x and y', which may be the source of confusion here. 'Synonymous' means 'interchangeable in some cases with no/negligible change in meaning/emphasis/...' though, and I'd stick with 'The number of visitors to France each year is between 8 and 10 million' or 'There are 8-10 [or between 8 and 10] million visitors to France each year' here. – Edwin Ashworth Nov 25 '20 at 12:41
  • @nnnnnn - What do you mean, you can't say it? I just said it, and very likely OP can say it as well. – Hot Licks Nov 25 '20 at 12:49
  • @HotLicks - The Word Police are on their way. – nnnnnn Nov 25 '20 at 22:05

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