187 examples of billions in sentences

It is worth noting in this connection that the fourth liberty bond issue of six billions was oversubscribed to extent $866,416,300almost an extra billion.

The war bills of the United States between April 6, 1917, and October 31st, 1918, as officially reported at Washington November 2, 1918, amounted to twenty billions, five hundred and sixty-one million dollars ($20,561,000,000).

Of this sum, seven billions and seventeen millions ($7,017,000,000) have been loaned to the allies and will be repaid.

The mere threat of that great "Unfought War" cost Europe billions of dollars.

" "If something doesn't happen," observed Destyn, pocketing his instrument, "the Green Mouse, Limited, will go into liquidation with no liabilities and no assets, and there'll be no billions for you or for me or for anybody.

It has been calculated that if all of the organisms survived, one bacterium would lead to the production of several billions of others in twenty-four hours.

If a talent of silver is, as estimated, about £390, or $1950, it would seem that the silver accumulated by David would have amounted to nearly two billion dollars, and the gold to a like sum,altogether four billions, which is plainly impossible.

But what matter a few million Herrings when the sea is packed with billions more!

The vibration of prakriti ends in thousands; that of ether begins in billions.

"This etheric solar world of ours is very large, many billions of miles in diameter; but it is not the whole universe.

"And much of the work you deem sublime Is like the grain of pink-hued lime Which once was a coral insect's shell, But now is a microscopic cell, Entombed with countless billions more In a lonely reef on an unknown shore!"

But here are four billions of the property of the South which you propose to outlaw from the common Territories.

You say to us, by your elected President, by your House of Representatives, by your Senate, by your Supreme Court, in short, by every means through which one party can speak to another, that these four billions of property, representing the toil of the head and hand of the South for the last two hundred years, shall not be respected in the Territories as your property is respected there.

The plunder collected from these countries ran into billions of dollars.

Instead of billions, only a few millions of cards will need to be destroyeda very useful economy.

The Black Hills beetle has killed billions of feet of marketable timber in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

With this name we begin again as before, and proceed till we have used it a million of times, each combination denoting a number clearly distinguished from every other; and then, in like manner, we begin and proceed, with billions, trillions, quadrillions, quintillions, etc., to any extent we please. 20.

" "If each is as small as those I saw under the microscope there must be billions in me!"

You have, my full-grown friend, of these little couriers in crimson or scarlet livery, running on your vital errands day and night as long as you live, sixty-five billions, five hundred and seventy thousand millions.

Consciousness is caused by the cooperation of billions of internal thinkers.

Consciousness is caused by the cooperation of billions of internal thinkers.

And there came also ten thousand elephants and ten thousand cars, and hundred millions of horses and hundred billions of foot-soldiers, and innumerable Vrishni and Andhaka and Bhoja warriors of great energy, in the train of that tiger among the Vrishnis, Vasudeva of great effulgence.

Under the Marshall Plan billions of dollars of United States aid were poured into Britain, France, Belgium and West Germany.

Nowhere were the results of the great revolution more in evidence than in the vast difference between the workshop attached to the house of the early industrialist and the forest of chimneys and stacks, and the acres and square miles of floorspace in present-day industrial establishments, with their personnel numbered in thousands and the capital invested in plant and equipment running into the millions or billions of dollars.

The claim that one billion of the twelve billions capital had been set aside to be used in protecting and manipulating the stock in the market, had been so widely advertised that even the most daring plunger did not think of selling it short.

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