用billion造句子，“billion”造句

A diameter of 18 billion light-years (9 billion in each direction) is a considerable percentage of observable reality.

The city centre is dominated by old brick Buildings, many of which collapsed: damage is conservatively estimated at around NZ$2 billion ($1.4 billion).

The same court is now deciding whether or not to confiscate 76 billion baht ($2.3 billion) of his assets frozen after a coup in 2006.

Ten months and several billion dollars later, the task is more prosaic.

In the first six months of this year, the net profit of China Unicom rose to RMB 2.25 billion from RMB 2.19 billion of the same period last year, an increase of 2.7% compared with the same period last year.

SHOPLIFTING (which here includes theft by employees and accounting errors) cost retailers around the world $107.3 billion this year.

The magazine estimated Buffett's worth at $62 billion in its annual ranking of the world's wealthiest people.

There are a lot of them about one thousand billion of them and each neuron can be connected to around thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, other neurons.

I draw the trifling issue of a few billion fatalities to your attention not to make you look like a heartless fascist but because it's a reality with which you refuse to engage.

The country has defaulted on its external debt and had to renege on a $29m interest coupon of its eurobond of $2.3 billion, which had already been restructured twice.

AT&T's $48 billion purchase of cable-TV giant TCI and its joint venture with Time Warner give it new wires into the home, through which it plans to provide not only TV but high-speed modem and local phone service to compete with the Baby Bells.

By the end of 2001, outstanding loans will total 73.5 billion yuan (US 8.9 billion).

Some computers can perform over a billion computation a second.

Mittal- the biggest dollar gainer after quadrupling his net worth by$18.8 billion to$25 billion- climbed59 rungs from last year to No.3 in2005.

So don't hope for a $100 billion leveraged buy-out—unless you're a vulture.

Americans consumed a stunning 15.3 billion gal. in 2003, or 574 cans for every man, woman and child.

Rick Welsh of SVB, a British insurance underwriter, says that plaintiffs are seeking $60 billion-80 billion in class-action suits in America that are yet to be settled.

Like any photography niche, stereoscopy involves a billion little accessories you could spend money on. Special slide mounts, viewers and print mats all clamor for your cash.

At that brief time, some 13.75 billion years ago, matter didn't exist as the solids, liquids, and gasses we are familiar with, but as a kind of quark-gluon soup.

It is commonly known that in 1994, before the outbreak of the financial crisis, the trade deficit was once as high as more than 18 billion US dollars. The huge trade deficit was one of the internal reasons that triggered this crisis.

The medicare cost is estimated to be one billion dollars.

Of this total, the premium of life insurance was 195.7 billion yuan, that of health and unforeseen accident insurance was 31.8 billion yuan, and that of property insurance was 77.8 billion yuan.

NXP has just announced a financial restructuring to lighten its debt burden of nearly $6 billion.

The iPhone and iPad maker's brand is now worth $153 billion, almost half Apple's market capitalization , says the annual BrandZ study of the world's top 100 brands.

In the past 17 years, the gross domestic output value of Shenzhen has been increasing at a high speed of an yearly average of more than 30%, having reached 95 billion yuan in 1996.

The bottom billion will face a paradox.

Adjusting for non-operating items, including the $7.7 billion charge, replacement cost profit was $5.5 billion, up 18% on the year-ago quarter, and topping the consensus forecast of $4.6 billion.

Urban centralized space heating area will increase 55 million square meters, and total will reach 0.1 billion square meters;

The government plans to earmark 6.8 billion yuan ($956.6 million) in its 2008 budget to build low-rent houses for the urban poor.

In a few billion years only one galaxy will remain.

The fixed assets investment by development zones of Beijing totaled 9.26 billion yuan.

Railway construction has maintained a good momentum. Last year, 51 billion yuan of investment was made in completing 1,350 km of new railways and doubling 800 km of old lines.

Space scientists revealed that they had discovered a ten billion trillion trillion carat gem.

The billion dollar success of plastic pop, clumsy metal and predictable, playa style rap has left little to rave about, and caused parents to shake their heads in disgust, stupefied at the bland or even bad taste of their very own kids.

The initial endowment of the Carnegie Corporation, at $125m ($3 billion in today’s money), exceeded the total value of all American foundations at the time.

Just 44 years old, his net worth tops $20 billion.

For example, the $14 billion price tag on the Southern Company's plant is around half of its entire market capitalization.