(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.
Trillion
Definition:
(n.) According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moody's said on Wednesday night that there was a greater risk that the US government would not agree to increase its debt ceiling above the legal limit of $14.3 trillion (£8.86tn), hit in May .
(2) Thus the G20 leaders, faced with the still gathering failure of the global economy, see no alternative but to sacrifice another $1 trillion .
(3) Science can say that if we burn another half-trillion tons of carbon the atmospheric content of carbon dioxide will go up by another 100 ppm and that will almost certainly lead to a warming of the planet greater than 2C, with major disruption of the climate system and huge risks for the natural world and human wellbeing.
(4) For many decades, we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry; subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military; we’ve defended other nations’ borders while refusing to defend our own; and spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.
(5) The campaigners argue that the trillions of dollars companies are still spending on exploration for even more fossil fuels is a danger to both the climate and investors’ capita.
(6) They know that you're just going to buy everything from Amazon now, so they've all cut their losses and stacked every shelf with a trillion different 50 Shades Of Grey knock-offs called things like Disciplined With Buttplugs and 20 Carat Strumpet.
(7) Speaking at the Young America’s Foundation conference in Washington, he said: “When I was younger, a trillion was an astronomic number.
(8) The method detects levels as low as 100 parts per trillion (ppt) in water samples; recovery efficiency from spiked fish tissues was greater than 95%.
(9) The original referred to half a trillion pounds being spent on higher education instead of "general government spending".
(10) Go has trillions of possible moves; according to the British Go Association , at the opening of Chess there are 20 possible moves.
(11) An analytical method has been developed that enabled the determination of parts per trillion levels of 32 VOCs in 10 mL of blood.
(12) Total public sector net debt was £1.2 trillion or 75.4% of gross domestic product at the end of October, according to figures published last week by the Office for National Statistics.
(13) In that time, it will shine about a million trillion times as bright as the sun, making it temporarily the brightest source of gamma rays in the observable universe.
(14) His speeches talk of how “the redistribution of trillions of dollars into the hands of the very rich”, has left the top one-tenth of one per cent owning almost as much wealth as the bottom 90% of Americans.
(15) UK chancellor George Osborne called for “cool heads” while Bank of England governor Mark Carney said the outlook for the world economy had not changed despite a dramatic start to 2016 on financial markets that has seen trillions of dollars wiped off the value of global shares amid panic selling and a slide in oil prices.
(16) Five years ago the Chinese viewed the country primarily as a source of hydrocarbon and mineral deposits – trillions of dollars of the oil, gas, copper, iron, gold and lithium that China will need if its economy is to expand.
(17) Western leaders, who for years boasted about the self-evident benefits of light-touch regulation, had to sink trillions of dollars to prevent the world bank system collapsing.
(18) The Bank of Japan has already launched a ¥1 trillion scheme to buy shares in cash-strapped commercial banks, while parliament is debating a government proposal to buy ¥20tn in shares from lenders.
(19) Bob Holman Glasgow • In 2012 the Tax Justice Network estimated that $21-32 trillion is hidden in tax havens worldwide.
(20) Each of the three Fed programs illustrated below were themselves smaller in size, from nearly $2 trillion in round one to just $400 billion in Operation Twist.... 3.