Do you think the company could string things out long enough for the fine to reach a nice, round billion dollars? |
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Why not select several limited but hated taxes, totalling a few billion, and earmark them for abolition? |
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In Nigeria, flared or vented natural gas exceed 2 billion cubic feet per day. |
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Today I read the article about the world population approaching six billion. |
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In spite of recent market falls, analysts estimate that UK life assurers still have 20-30 billion of such assets. |
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He turned his love of surfing into a company worth more than half a billion dollars. |
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The challenge is nothing less than how to save the planet while improving the lot of the six billion plus people who live on it. |
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His parents were working on a billion dollar assignment, when John sabotaged everything, and ruined their reputations. |
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We are paying off an extra billion of debt, and we are putting much of the rest aside against the future needs of this possible downturn. |
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This means the Powder River Basin's soils, arroyos and streams will receive an astounding one billion gallons of water per day. |
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Over 1.2 billion people worldwide regularly smoke tobacco products, not including the use of roll-your-owns or smokeless tobacco. |
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The story turns rote, like a billion spy novels where the rogue agent has to meet his superiors and turn the tables. |
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They decipher traces of ancient Platyhelminthe movement in the California mountains, on rocks that are over half a billion years old. |
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This year's sales are projected to expand by 5.85 billion ringgit from 4 billion ringgit last year. |
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They're spending ten billion to not have to spend twenty billion, if you like. |
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Finally volcanic rocks spread over its surface as the Slave protocontinent was rifted apart about 2.8 billion to 2.7 billion years ago. |
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But we can always chip ice out of the north pole cap, that's a billion cubic kilometres of water ice just sitting there waiting to be dealt with. |
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While insurers pay over a billion dollars in claims annually, over 200 people are killed. |
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The Android tablet hardware isn't that different so they could have something out quickly for another billion or two. |
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We have enough foodgrain in reserve to meet the requirements of one billion citizens. |
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A reusable launch vehicle program could be done for one to two billion dollars a year. |
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A single lightning stroke can deliver a billion electron volts and 100,000 amps. |
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All of this amounts to eight billion dollars in lost revenue for the federal government. |
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This would release humankind from the drudgery of wage-slavery and release the latent talents of 3 billion people. |
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Reports showed that mainland car buyers defaulted on loans of up to 100 billion yuan last year. |
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To put this time span in perspective, two billion years ago our ancestors were microscopic single-celled amoebas. |
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They spent almost a billion dollars sending a couple of remote-controlled cars to Mars to find something they already knew was there. |
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But he failed to answer questions that the Treasury had amassed four billion pounds extra in tax through the increases. |
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And, as each pint contains about eight billion cells of yeast, stressed yeast can dramatically alter taste. |
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On World Freedom Day, we also recognize that more than two billion people still live under authoritarian regimes. |
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The case regards the misappropriation of a total of Rp 14 billion from the 2003 council budget fund to establish a councillors' housing compound. |
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The strikers are demanding a salary increase, better working conditions and back pay totalling 16 billion kwacha. |
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The local elections were expected to cost 300 billion kwacha, which could be used to fund hospitals and maintain roads, he added. |
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Court documents show the main charge against him is the theft of 15 billion kwacha in cash from the Zambia National Commercial Bank in Lusaka. |
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The company raised 16.6 billion kronor last year by selling assets including computer equipment and offices. |
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Sales were 27.6 billion kronor, more than the 27.4 billion kronor forecast by analysts surveyed by SME Direkt. |
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Old Mutual's other option is to sell some of Skandia's assets, like its internet bank, which is worth 4-5 billion kronor. |
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Last year, the company began a restructuring deal with the trade union in a bid to cut costs by up to 14 billion kronor. |
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By a single act of accounting alchemy, the company transformed its indebtedness into over a billion dollars of golden profit. |
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At the same time it won an order to supply 1.5 billion euros worth of equipment for 3G licenses. |
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You get a 30 billion dollar net worth by taking a risk and starting a mail order computer company. |
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Thailand is a major food exporter and ships out products worth about 270 billion baht annually. |
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Absenteeism costs British industry 5 billion each year and seven million workdays are lost to stress-related illnesses. |
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Sudan has two billion barrels of recoverable oil and currently produces 250,000 barrels a day. |
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These hold an estimated 1.7 trillion barrels of petroleum, of which 255 billion barrels is currently considered recoverable. |
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The fossil record shows that cyanobacteria go back three and a half billion years. |
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The National Tourism Authority of Laos predicted that 743,000 visitors would bring 107 billion kip into the local economy. |
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Bank withdrawals, mostly in small notes, shot up by the equivalent of half a billion dollars in the week before the vote. |
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The nation used 14 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in February, 1.3 percent less than the same month last year, the bureau said. |
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The power plant generated 5.22 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, up 4.8 per cent from the previous year. |
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We still have their reciprocal tables going up to the reciprocals of numbers up to several billion. |
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It can take centuries for aquifers to recharge, so the world is currently running a groundwater overdraft of 200 billion cubic metres a year. |
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That's probably bad news for the industry, which has blamed its billion dollar losses partially on persistently low airfares. |
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That theory holds that the universe was created 10 to 20 billion years ago when a cosmic explosion hurled matter in all directions. |
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Perhaps that is the reason why no one knows where the billion dollars in aid money went. |
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Investments in real estates both in the commercial and home ownership portfolio totalled K148.8 billion at the close of the year. |
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The aggregate amount of loans also picked up drastically, from 7.3 billion leva to 11.1 billion leva. |
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If a few billion people die, then a wholescale change in the attitude of the species might just take place. |
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From August the odds each month against winning the jackpot are 13 billion to one for each bond. |
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The planet, more than twice the size of Jupiter, orbits two stars, a pulsar and a white dwarf that linked together about a billion years ago. |
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The bank's loan and advances portfolio registered 42 per cent growth, reaching the level of K79.55 billion. |
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By 1.30 pm only one billion shares had traded in FTSE stocks, with advancers outweighing decliners by three-to-one on the main index. |
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A few billion of that new economic rescue plan will go to weatherize one million homes a year. |
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The U.S. consumes about 650 billion barrels of jet fuel per year, which is about 10 percent of our annual oil consumption. |
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It could also reduce food wastage which is estimated to cost at least 10 billion yuan every year. |
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Of course, the chances of this happening by accident are literally a hundred million billion to one. |
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Out beyond the galaxies, there are celestial objects called quasars, whose light has traveled at least 10 billion years to get here. |
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Meanwhile, optical measurements suggest the quasar is a billion times more massive than our sun. |
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The world's largest media company, the parent of CNN is saying it earned almost a billion dollars in the first quarter. |
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At the beginning of last year, the Government announced that it expected direct investment from abroad to reach two billion euro. |
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Outsourcing now accounts for more than a third of the company's total revenue, just over a billion dollars in the latest quarter alone. |
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Each year their fields need at least 53 billion cubic meters of water for irrigation. |
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The rocks dated back into the Archean eon, before 2.5 billion years ago. |
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According to experts' calculations, that star will explode within two billion years. |
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Americans bought 1.5 billion cans of tuna last year, according to ac Nielsen data. |
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Increase the dose to 10 billion CFUs per day and continue for one to two weeks after you stop taking the antibiotic. |
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Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand. |
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Yes, the 86th Academy Awards will be beamed in front of one billion eyeballs Sunday night. |
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But what difference does Bollywood make on a diverse culture one billion strong? |
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As TechCrunch pointed out, the brilliance in its bare bones appeal could reach a worth of one billion dollars. |
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This year, the U.S. Mint will churn out 4.3 billion of them, more than twice the annual output of all other coins combined. |
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Some of this is fossil heat from the beginning four and a half billion years ago when the earth accreted from rock, dust and gas into a molten ball. |
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To quench the thirst for power, Datang Power has applied to raise up to 6 billion yuan by selling one billion A shares to fund expansion of 10 power plants. |
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In the same time period, the number of web pages swelled from 500 million to 3 to 8 billion, and the number of searches quintupled from 100 to 500 million. |
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Almost all meteorites are collisional fragments of asteroids, and can be dated radiometrically to about 4.6 billion years, which represents the birth of the Solar System. |
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Patterson used radiometric dating, specifically U-Pb dating, to determine the age of the Canyon Diablo meteorite in the early 1950s and that date was 4.55 billion years old. |
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The observable Universe contains around 100 billion large galaxies and a comparable number of supermassive black holes. |
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Sure, it's a billion times more than the first computer had, but it's still not much more than the computing power of a hamster. |
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Asia uses roughly 20 million barrels daily for 3.6 billion people. |
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The conflict in Ukraine caused Gazprom to cut production volumes from 496.4 billion cubic meters to 463 billion cubic meters. |
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The total indebtedness of the company is reckoned at 17 billion euros. |
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India, with its population of more than 1 billion, has averaged 1 million new connections in both fixed line and wireless phones every month since March. |
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Schweitzer said 115 billion tons of that coal is recoverable. |
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Multicellular marine organisms may have existed as early as 1.7 billion years ago, and plants identifiable as red algae were certainly growing 1.2 billion years ago. |
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Since its re-entry into the Olympic movement in 1979, it has regularly found itself near the top of the medal table, as befits a country populated by 1.3 billion. |
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According to the company-commissioned study, premature deaths from cigarettes saved the Czech government between 943 million koruna and 1.19 billion koruna. |
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Chiluba is currently facing trial for 65 counts of theft including that of 15 billion kwacha in cash from the Zambia National Commercial Bank in Lusaka. |
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Orogenic or anorogenic, there was much deformation and regional metamorphism both before and during the intrusion of plutons between 1.36 and 1.47 billion years ago. |
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More than eight terabytes of data recorded aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour were refined into 200 billion research-quality measurements of Earth's landforms. |
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New Yorkers use 1.3 billion gallons of water each day, sending it downstream across 7,400 miles of sewer pipes. |
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The atoms, according to this scheme, all work in concert with one another to amplify the signal, making it a billion times stronger than the older theory could account for. |
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Minnesota, with 10 electoral votes and 1.1 billion gallons of ethanol production capacity, is leaning Democratic. |
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Furthermore, a person with norovirus has about 70 billion viral particles per gram of stool. |
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For the first two months of 2000, the total trade surplus stood at 9.1 billion ringgit, 10 million ringgit less than the surplus registered for the same period last year. |
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In 1986 the world's leading science journal announced that the most ancient rock crystals on earth, according to isotope dating methods, are 4.3 billion years old. |
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He cut the national education allocation to 557 billion ariary. |
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A swarm of desert locusts may consist of up to 50 billion individuals. |
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This amount is the equivalent of one part per billion in weight. |
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During its circuitous voyage, Cassini-Huygens clocked up almost two and a quarter billion miles as it looped across space to the outer solar system. |
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It is the largest tea bag factory in the world and makes 18 billion tea bags a year. |
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Genetic foremessages to the contemporary life have been carried over for a billion years. |
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Estimates on the loss to the economy from road work congestion go as high as pounds 4 billion a year. |
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Photosynthesis was established some billion years ago by ancient bacterial precursors of modern cyanobacteria. |
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It's just like withdrawing a billion dollars and putting it into your personal bank accounts. |
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The merger made the new company, then valued at over half a billion dollars, the third largest music publisher in the world. |
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Over one billion people are said to be learning English in a second language or foreign language context. |
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More than one billion viewers tuned in to cheer on their national beauty queens in last night's glittering final. |
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Gazing through a traditional optical telescope, you'd see a galaxy 50 billion light years away from Earth as a fuzzy oval of light. |
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It was backscratched into existence, cost nearly a billion pounds, and now they are wondering why they let it happen. |
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Contamination levels are at 3 billion becquerels of cesium per liter of water and 13 billion becquerels of iodine per liter. |
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According to the Ethnologue, there are almost 1 billion speakers of English as a first or second language. |
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The American share of world coal production remained steady at about 20 percent from 1980 to 2005, at about 1 billion short tons per year. |
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No obvious changes in morphology or cellular organisation occurred in these organisms over the next few billion years. |
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More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. |
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According to a 2001 study, there was a massive number, over 550 billion, of documents on the Web, mostly in the invisible Web, or Deep Web. |
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A commonly cited quote by Ralph Nader states that a pound of plutonium dust spread into the atmosphere would be enough to kill 8 billion people. |
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Thus the Hermes programme was cancelled in 1995 after about 3 billion dollars had been spent. |
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He said Liquified Natural Gas is so economical as compared to any other fuel, adding that it would save Rs 100 billion, annually. |
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It is estimated that over 99 percent of all species that ever lived on Earth, some five billion species, are now extinct. |
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Thus, out of nothing, the Fed has created a billion loanable dollars for the banks. |
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On 18 March 2008, Reuters reported that American bankers Citigroup and JP Morgan would finance the deal with a USD 3 billion loan. |
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Sources told government was mulling over taking action against those who were involved in betting of billion of rupees and the rumourmongers. |
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In today's nanotechnology environment, there are VLSI devices that hold more than one billion logic gates. |
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The last shared ancestor of humans and baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, lived 1 billion years ago. |
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As we announced in August, we anticipate our innovative design will soon be extended to an areal density of over 40 billion bits per square inch. |
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The Netherlands are the world's main producer of commercial tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, the majority for export. |
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Korean Air will invest W10 billion to construct a cutting-edge sled for the national bobsledding team. |
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As of February 2014, it had 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors each month. |
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According to radiometric dating and other sources of evidence, Earth formed over 4 billion years ago. |
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In 2010, SAMIFIN identified ariary 316,704 billion of suspicious transactions in the construction, logging and mining sectors. |
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Currently, about a billion people around the world routinely drink unhealthy water. |
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However, his calculations suggest that a neutron star's surface can't reach temperatures as high as 1 billion kelvins. |
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With a population of over seven billion, humans are among the most numerous of the large mammals. |
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It has been estimated at approximately GBP 2 billion in the United Kingdom, of the same order as that of music sales. |
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The Latrobe Valley in the state of Victoria, Australia, contains estimated reserves of some 65 billion tonnes of brown coal. |
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Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century and now number approximately one billion worldwide. |
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Some paleontologists suggest that animals appeared much earlier, possibly as early as 1 billion years ago. |
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Over one billion people rely on fish as their primary source of animal protein. |
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The sediments of the Sahara overlie an ancient plateau of crystalline rock, some of which is more than four billion years old. |
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By the early '20s the project was again close to collapse as German hyperinflation drove costs of production to over 5 billion marks. |
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That is equivalent to approximately 3 billion urbanites by 2050, much of which will occur in Africa and Asia. |
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A reported 3 billion Saudi Riyals will be put into constructing flyovers and underpasses in an effort to expedite traffic. |
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In the 1960s some 2 billion pounds of cod were harvested annually from the Grand Bank off Newfoundland, the world's largest source of fish. |
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By 1997, the state has registered a total investment of over MYR16 billion. |
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Text messaging is a popular form of communication and, in 2007, the nation sent an average of one billion SMS messages per day. |
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The company president, Amancio Ortega, is the richest person in Spain and indeed Europe with a net worth of 45 billion euros. |
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Numbering a little over one billion, domestic sheep are also the most numerous species of sheep. |
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Dow says that the facility will increase its global capacity for polyolefin elastomers to over 800 kilometric tons, or nearly 2 billion lbs. |
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Cassava is a major staple food in the developing world, providing a basic diet for over half a billion people. |
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It is about 100 kiloparsecs, or 300,000 light-years, across and has a mass equal to about 100 billion suns. |
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The EU support to the Welsh rural community is reported to be of the order of about half a billion euros a year. |
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Estimates that include second language speakers vary greatly, from 470 million to more than 1 billion. |
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Close to one billion dollars are sent to the country by Nicaraguans living abroad. |
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This represented a state of hyperinflation, and the central bank introduced a new 100 billion dollar note. |
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About 3.6 billion tonnes of untreated sewerage flows daily into the Yamuna, which supplies over 60 percent of Delhi's water. |
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A few billion years of local perturbations add up to a shitton more effect than can be mounted against the overall galaxy. |
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Their increasingly spiny forms in the last 1 billion years may indicate an increased need for defence against predation. |
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By the early 20th century, radiometric dating allowed the Earth's age to be estimated at two billion years. |
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In 2009, Region Brittany's gross domestic product reached 82 billion euros. |
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The government bailout of that corporation is going to cost the taxpayers a hundred billion dollars. |
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It is considered one of the most important recent projects in Egypt which cost around 12 billion Egyptian pounds. |
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Zinc deficiency affects about two billion people in the developing world and is associated with many diseases. |
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Eurostat data shows the GDP of Outer London to be 103 billion euros in 2009 and per capita GDP of 21,460 euros. |
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After the release of the song, Harris became the first British solo artist to reach more than a billion streams on Spotify. |
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The worldwide production of soda ash in 2005 has been estimated at 42 billion kilograms. |
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He also became the first British solo artist to reach more than one billion streams on Spotify. |
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About half a billion dollar worth of handicraft is exported every year, and many more is consumed domestically. |
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In 2013, the network had more than 2 billion commuter trips per annum, more than the Underground. |
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In total, the texts in the Oxford English Corpus contain more than 2 billion words. |
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Estimated technically recoverable shale oil resources total 335 to 345 billion barrels. |
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The year 2010 was a new record in terms of value with 115 billion USD of transactions. |
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Turkish ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina disclosed that Turkey has spent one billion euros in Bosnia in the past 20 years. |
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The main construction was largely completed by 1939, at a cost of around 3 billion French francs. |
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Inside super-Earths, however, high pressure can keep the water cycle running for at least 10 billion years. |
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By the outbreak of World War I, one billion marks had been added to Germany's national debt because of naval expenditures. |
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In 1999 it was estimated that there were 200 billion barrels of recoverable oil reserves hosted in rifts. |
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It conducted seven-day reverse repos worth CNY 290 billion and offered CNY 105 billion in 14-day contracts. |
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Over the following approximately 4 billion years, the energy output of the Sun increased and atmospheric composition changed. |
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She said drawing a bad check or giros valued more than Rp 1 billion will face revocation of license to use giros and checks in a year. |
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Please note that rankings for exporters below a billion dollars are less meaningful, as they can be swayed by single contracts. |
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Uranium decays to radium through a long series of steps with a cumulative half-life of 4.4 billion years. |
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In 2017, Saudi Arabia signed a 110 billion dollar arms deal with the United States. |
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Eurostat data shows the GDP of Inner London to be 232 billion euros in 2009 and per capita GDP of 78,000 euros. |
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These are amongst the oldest rocks in Europe, having been formed in the Precambrian period up to three billion years ago. |
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The EU provides support for the implementation of the directive in the order of 5 billion Euro per year. |
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As a direct result of the war and the War Production Board, by June 1945, over 646 billion units per year were being produced. |
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India is one of the biggest sources of biosimilars and is also an emerging market with its billion populations and investment in technology. |
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Different regions contain rocks belonging to different geologic periods, dating as far back almost 2 billion years. |
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The oldest rocks of Scotland are the Lewisian gneisses, which were formed in the Precambrian period, up to 3 billion years ago. |
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Canada made over a billion dollars in sales in the first two years of operation. |
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The mountains in Finnish Lapland form vestiges of the Karelides mountains, formed two billion years ago. |
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The new data point to a WIMP with a mass in the range of 7-11 billion electronvolts. |
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In the French machinery industry in 2009 about 650,000 people were employed, and the sector generated a turnover of 98 billion euros. |
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Smaller formations of Lewisian gneiss in the northwest are up to 3 billion years old. |
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For example, the cooling system at the Indian Point Energy Center in New York kills over a billion fish eggs and larvae annually. |
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Astronomers believe the Earth began to accrete more than 4.6 billion years ago. |
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In spite of a recession, over a billion board feet of raw logs were shipped out of the region. |
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Waterston's group found that the roughly 3 billion base pairs in the genomes of the two species have the same sequence 96 percent of the time. |
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Using a figure of 10,000 board-feet per acre standing, Dean estimates MRC's inventory at two billion board-feet or more. |
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Revenue rose 10 per cent to 57 billion ringgit on higher crude oil prices, Petronas said. |
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On 13 April 2016 it reported, that its revenue had reduced by 17 percent as coal prices fell and that it had lost two billion dollars the previous year. |
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A billion trips are made on the school run every year and, between us, parents produce two million extra tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, a cause of global warming. |
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Today, Americans spend close to a billion dollars a year at the nation's nearly 13,000 optical stores for contact lenses and eyeglasses, including bifocals. |
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In January, 1921, the most disastrous windfall experience of the region was felt in the Olympic Peninsula where altogether over 6 billion feet of timber were withthrown. |
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The Rosetta probe completed a journey that took it four billion miles across the asteroid belt and more than five times the Earth's distance from the Sun. |
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Nationally up to PS7 billion goes unclaimed every year in benefits such as Attendance Allowance, so it's money in the pot you could well be entitled to. |
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However, Immler says, there's a mystery because many stars take several billion years to become white dwarfs and then explode as type la supernovas. |
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Recent estimates put the cost of ageism on UK plc at over pounds 30 billion per annum in lost production and a further pounds 5 billion through the cost of benefits. |
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The replica which will cost an estimated 1 billion Yuan was designed by GC High-Tech Inc, a US company, and is being made at Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry. |
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YouTube is a leading video-hosting platform with over one billion users. |
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Trade surplus in July dropped by 10 percent to 263 billion yuan. |
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The 2009 budget of the ICRC amounts more than 1 billion Swiss francs. |
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But the recent discovery found that volcanic rocks underneath the island are consisting of tiny crystals of mineral called zircon dated up to 3 billion years ago. |
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A million decatherms is roughly a billion cubic feet of natural gas. |
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As part of this drive, Nokia announced the acquisition of assets from mobile imaging company Scalado, which currently has imaging technology on more than 1 billion devices. |
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Today it is the primary language of up to 400 million people and is spoken by about one and a half billion as a first, second or foreign language. |
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Hollow-fibre modules have been assessed for their capability to reduce dissolved oxygen to the parts per billion concentration range in ultrapure water production. |
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Life within the ocean evolved 3 billion years prior to life on land. |
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In the developing world, more than one billion people obtain most of their animal protein from fish, and 250 million depend on fisheries and aquaculture for their livelihoods. |
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Under the deal, the ARF will pay 24 billion yen while the government will inject 12 billion yen in public funds to bolster Kofuku Bank's capital base. |
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The marrow is currently well defined as the seedbed of our blood, producing 200 billion red cells, 10 billion white cells, and 400 billion platelets on a daily basis. |
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Tobacco smoking is the most popular form, being practiced by over one billion people globally, of whom the majority are in the developing countries. |
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On average it produces 2 billion pound sterling coins struck for general circulation every year with an estimated 28 billion pieces circulating altogether. |
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Army's AH-64D Longbow Apache, would create 2 billion pounds sterling and approximately 30,000 man-years of work for companies in the United Kingdom. |
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Nearly two billion people in the developing world are deficient in zinc. |
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The French president Charles de Gaulle implemented a major road construction plan in the 1970 and Brittany received over 10 billion francs of investments during 25 years. |
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Mobility on Dutch roads has grown continuously since the 1950s and now exceeds 200 billion km travelled per year, three quarters of which are done by car. |
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In spite of this trend, revenues from international tourism continued to rise, from USD 4 billion in 2005 to 5 billion in 2007, despite 330 000 fewer arrivals. |
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The monthly supply of cargo containers through Pakistani route to ISAF in Afghanistan is over 4,000 costing around 12 billion in Pakistani Rupees. |
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Under the terms of the deal, Russia would pump 38 billion cubic metres of gas to China from 2018, reorientating its production away from its current focus on European exports. |
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Financial institutions bid for securities worth Rs 31 Billion on the central bank s new bout of reverse repo. |
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Tullow Oil estimates Kenya's oil reserves to be around 10 billion barrels. |
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In a world of minority purchasing, The Billion Dollar Roundtable stands out. |
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Earlier that year, he knelt on stage at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert and recited the Lord's Prayer before a television audience of up to one billion people. |
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In 2014 Beijing and Moscow signed a 150 billion yuan central bank liquidity swap line agreement to get around American sanctions on their behaviors. |
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By 1996 it had accumulated a value of 23 billion Deutsche Mark. |
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The German textile industry consisted of about 1,300 companies with more than 130,000 employees in 2010, which generated a revenue of 28 billion Euro. |
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In our modern, finite world, where human population grows at a rate of 1 billion people a decade, we are constantly applying Band-Aids to all the consequent tribulations. |
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Founded in 1949, it has 47 member states, covers approximately 820 million people and operates with an annual budget of approximately half a billion euros. |
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At the meeting, Freedman reported a Hubble constant of about 73 kilometers per second per megaparsec, which corresponds to a universe between 9 and 12 billion years old. |
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For Time, which has about 5 billion ringgit of debts and is currently under court protection from creditors, SingTel's entry was important in its debt-restructuring plan. |
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Office wear also has to be suitable for movement, to accommodate the billion microjourneys a person takes each day to the supply closet or the coffee machine or the restroom. |
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Nearly all the afterglows that astronomers have detected come from gamma-ray bursts that arose in galaxies that lie 2 billion to 8 billion light-years away. |
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In the United States, it is commonly known as the Western corn rootworm or the billion dollar bug because of the damage it can cause in the right environment. |
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In 1983, for example, the government bought 12 percent of all dairy products and stored away some 17 billion pounds of butter, cheese, and dried milk. |
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The total cost of a plant is about 9 billion dollars per plant. |
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The genome contains approximately 20 billion base pairs and is about six times the size of the human genome, despite possessing a similar number of genes. |
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The fungi are now considered a separate kingdom, distinct from both plants and animals, from which they appear to have diverged around one billion years ago. |
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A half billion years later, the last common ancestor of all life arose. |
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Almost half a billion dollars was invested in identifying potential deposits and in research and development of technology for mining and processing nodules. |
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In 2013, global tomato exports were valued at 88 billion US dollars. |
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With the end of colonialism and the Cold War, nearly a billion people in Africa were left in new nation states after centuries of foreign domination. |
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Smoking of tobacco is practised worldwide by over one billion people. |
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The estimates of these users range from 100 million to one billion. |
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Pauline Marois has recently unveiled a two billion dollar budget for the period between 2013 to 2017 to create about 115,000 new jobs in knowledge and innovation sectors. |
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Over the 20 years between 1991 and 2011 the European Chemical industry saw its sales increase 295 billion Euros to 539 billion Euros a picture of constant growth. |
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Americans also use in the order of 16 billion paper cups per year. |
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Research published by the Worldwatch Institute found that in 2012 approximately one billion people in 96 countries had become members of at least one cooperative. |
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Dods in represented by Half A Billion and Springinmystep in the 6f Mr Wolf Sprint Handicap, in which the weights are pegged by the Mark Johnston-trained Rafeej. |
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As of April 2017, foreign reserves in Russia fell to 332 USD Billion. |
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