(n.) According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Project grants to selected State and local agencies amounted to about $.8 billion.
(2) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(3) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(4) Its struggling mobile phone business resulted in a net loss of 136 billion yen for the three months to September, although that figure was smaller than analysts had predicted.
(5) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
(6) The deal will also be scrutinised to see if its claims of new billions to jump start world economies prove to be inflated.
(7) Nick Nuttall, a spokesman for UNEP, said the latest findings should encourage more governments to follow moves by some politicians to invest billions of dollars in clean energy and efficiency as a way of curbing greenhouse gases.
(8) On the other hand, if the world population grew to 1-2 billion fertile women, the million tons of contraceptive steroids needed would require an inexpensive total synthesis.
(9) By easing these huge flows of hundreds of billions across borders, the single currency played a material role in causing the continent's crisis.
(10) The US farm bill is a multi-billion dollar piece of legislation that controls the federal government's spending on farm subsidies, food for the domestic poor, agriculture conservation programmes, and overseas food aid , among other things.
(11) And the number has risen sharply since 1980, with nearly 1 billion people added to the ranks of the poor over the past 35 years.
(12) The total earnings gap between the 2 groups was +17.6 billion (1986 dollars).
(13) • Mubarak becomes a major mediator in the Arab-Israeli peace process, remaining a consistent US ally bolstered by billions of dollars in American aid.
(14) Many alternative, more reliable sources of public finance are out there – a tax on financial transactions would provide billions of dollars of new money for developing countries to tackle climate change head on."
(15) Sir Ken Morrison, supermarkets Jersey trusts protect the billion-pound wealth of the 83-year-old Bradford-born Morrisons supermarket founder and a large number of his family members.
(16) It forecasts the pressure on forests will increase as world population grows by more than 2.5 billion people in the next 40 years.
(17) This would deplete the budget by a further $3.53 billion over the same four-year period," his report says.
(18) The world's population was 5.2 billion in 1990, which is increasing at an annual rate of 90 million, mainly in the developing countries.
(19) Ukraine has said it needs $35 billion over the next two years to stave off bankruptcy.
(20) The U.S. also needs significant regulatory and financial support, including "billions in loan guarantees," the report said.
Milliard
Definition:
(n.) A thousand millions; -- called also billion. See Billion.
Example Sentences:
(1) 4,5 milliards de personnes exposées à des canicules chaque année.
(2) In Italy some recent data documented that the social costs in relation to osteoporosis fractures can be evaluated in 1983 between 80 and 153 milliard liras.
(3) Germ-free monoflora (contaminated with nonpathogenic spore-bearing bacillus) and common albino rats (OFA) were infected with V. cholera El Tor, of Ogava and Inaba serological types (6 milliard microbial cells per 1.5 ml of physiological solution per rat).
(4) In infection with various doses of the causative agent--from 1 milliard to 1 microbial cell-positive results were noted in 92.3% of cases (according to the data of fluorescent microscopy) and in 77.3% of cases (according to the data of light microscopy), this pointing to a greater sensitivity of the method of fluorescent in comparison with the light microscopy.
(5) The posology of 40 milliard and the bi-weekly sequence of the treatments presented the highest immunoreactions.
(6) Under conditions of conventional animals contamination with E. coli 055 (in doses of 500 million and 10 milliard microbial bodies for subcutaneous and oral inoculation, respectively) only an early transitory bacteremia developed at the early postinfection periods.
(7) The appearance and the progression of the specific immunoreactions at biliary levels (agglutinant titre, immunoenzimatic titration of IgAGM, IgA, IgG) in rabbits treated per os from 1 to 10 times, daily or bi-weekly, with 20 and 40 milliard of inactivated bacterial antigens (E. coli, Proteus vulgaris, Staph.
(8) 1,5 milliard de personnes exposées à une pénurie d’eau accrue.
(9) The nutrition of the additional milliard in this century could be kept at the approximately equal per capita level by cultivation of land reserves with traditional primitive methods without an increase of yield.
(10) 1,5 milliard de personnes exposées à des canicules chaque année.
(11) Live dysentery Sonne vaccine from a spontaneous mutant proved to be practically areactogenic and specifically harmless in oral immunization of children aged from 7 to 13 years, in doses of from 3 to 25 milliard live microbial cells and in single and triple immunization schemes.
(12) The available reserves of food production in all--taking the land reserves and the still more important progress in agricultural methods together--are so great that fear of general hunger through the exhaustion of resources, even with a world population of ten milliards, must be regarded as totally unfounded and misleading.
(13) The explosive increase of population in almost all the underdeveloped countries--about 1900 it was round a milliard, now it is more than two milliard and at the turn of the century more than four milliard is to be expected--has given rise to serious concern that the Third World is approaching a nutritional catastrophe such as ROBERT MALTHUS has prophesied nearly two hundred years ago for the newly developing industrial countries.
(14) Indeed the statistical power of a hypothetical follow-up study at a suitable confidence level would require a sample size higher than a milliard of persons for the detection of an increase of a generic cancer mortality and higher then seven hundred of millions for the detection of an increase of the specific thyroid cancer mortality.
(15) 1,75 milliard de personnes affectées par une pénurie d’eau accrue chaque année.
(16) On milliard cells of killed staphylococcal culture are injected to the animals into the paws of the limbs; two and a half weeks later an intradermal test with an allergen in a dose of 10 microgram by protein was made.
(17) Avec un réchauffement au-delà de 5°C, 12 milliards de personnes seraient exposées aux canicules chaque année, la surface des terres arables diminuerait de 7,6 millions de km2, 120 millions de personnes par an seraient affectées par les inondations et 2 milliards de personnes seraient exposés à une pénurie d’eau accrue.