(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.
Yard
Definition:
(v. i.) A rod; a stick; a staff.
(v. i.) A branch; a twig.
(v. i.) A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.
(v. i.) A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.
(v. i.) The penis.
(v. i.) A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship.
(n.) An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.
(n.) An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
(v. t.) To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
Example Sentences:
(1) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
(2) Osman had gone close before that, flashing a shot over from seven yards after a corner.
(3) There were still 25 seconds left on the clock when Vernon Davis reeled in a catch at the Baltimore nine-yard line, but San Francisco could not convert on second or third down.
(4) When one pig was housed in a hut with a small outside yard a nychthemeral rhythm was sometimes superimposed on that imposed by feeding.
(5) He unleashes a scorching drive from about 18 yards, which Joe Hart tips wide via his right post.
(6) It hasn't been so exposed to the brutal learning culture Scotland Yard has been through with cases like Stephen Lawrence and Victoria Climbié.
(7) The Bears put together a 74 yard drive capped off by a Matt Forte run to give the Bears a one point lead... rather than "run" as I said earlier.
(8) The police on Scotland Yard's press operation Kit Malthouse, assembly member chair, Metropolitan Police Authority "I doubt whether money is changing hands.
(9) Jesús Navas played a one-two with Touré down the right and from his awkward cross the England squad goalkeeper fumbled the ball inside his six-yard area from where Fernando scored with an overhead kick as dextrous as it was surprising.
(10) Until that point, Bravo had looked assured, often straying 30 yards off his goal-line and confident enough to try a couple of passes that many goalkeepers would consider too risky.
(11) Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan police commissioner, made the comments as he announced that Scotland Yard has begun two new inquiries.
(12) Yards away from a genuine station, he used a huge funnel to fill up a car sagging under the weight of its occupants and market produce.
(13) Dortmund seemed certain to score after Reus and Grosskreutz swapped passes on the edge of the area and Reuz tapped the ball into the path of Gundogan, charging in to meet it five yards out.
(14) The subjects responded to a mail survey that defined before surgery and after recovery functioning in relation to 22 activities of daily living representing personal care, housework-yard work, and recreation-social activities.
(15) Scotland Yard announced its decision to investigate a few hours after John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, complained that Deen had not been arrested.
(16) John Yates, a Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, was criticised by the Conservative chairman of the Commons culture and media select committee, John Whittingdale, for failing to disclose information to MPs, but the Yard continues to refuse to say how many victims it has warned, and how many members of the royal household, military, police and government have been warned of evidence that Mulcaire intercepted their voicemail.
(17) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
(18) 8.51pm GMT Falcons 27 - Seahawks 21, 3:35 4th of quarter The smash mouth Falcons are back on first down, Turner has 12 more yards.
(19) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
(20) 7.48pm BST 2 min: Blaszczykowski runs towards the Bayern box for the first time but Ribéry tracks him all the way and eventually dispossesses him some 20 yards out.