| Easier, but not easy, and still only around a billionth of a millimetre over five million kilometres. |
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| The original half watt of power will diminish to less than a billionth of a watt at the point of arrival. |
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| I pulled out my favorite book, How to Kill a Mockingbird, and started to read it for the billionth time. |
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| A nanoparticle one billionth of a meter long may hold the key to a new concept of magnetic imaging in the brain. |
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| This also means one clock cycle takes one billionth of a second, or a nanosecond. |
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| Our Cold Lake operation produced its one billionth barrel in October, the only in-situ operation in Canada to have achieved this milestone. |
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| The air pressure in the cylinder has been reduced to one billionth of an atmosphere to reduce air drag on the mass. |
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| The scanner, the size of a small copy machine, uses spectrometry that can detect a billionth of a gram of explosives, such as TNT and nitroglycerine. |
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| Stepping out by a distance equivalent to the solar radius, the coronal brightness drops by about a factor of a thousand, to be about a billionth that of the solar disk. |
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| The UN will even identify someone born that day as the world's 7 billionth living person. |
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| First, a sphere's diameter was measured by an interferometer, which uses lasers to compare lengths to within a hundred billionth of a metre. |
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| Dr Raskar and his students are working with one that fires its pulse in a thousand billionth of a second. |
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| Imperial's Cold Lake operation produced its one billionth barrel in 2009, a reflection of our ongoing commitment to innovation. |
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| As we approach dimensions of one billionth of a metre the nanometre scale it is now appropriate to talk about nanoelectronics rather than microelectronics. |
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| The temperature of Cygnus X-1 from Hawking radiation is roughly a billionth of a degree above absolute zero. |
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| We've moved from computers with a trillionth of the power of a human brain to computers with a billionth of the power. |
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| An angstrom is a unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter. |
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| A nanometerr is a billionth of a meter, or a millionth of a millimeter. |
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| In nanoscience objects are measured in nanometres, 1 billionth of a metre. |
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| Several contaminants are toxic at very small concentrations, sometimes equivalent to less than one billionth of a gram, or even less than one thousandth of that concentration, in a litre of water. |
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| For reasons not yet clearly understood, about a tenth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second after the beginning, this small object started to expand. |
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| Dr. Chau's work could help chip designers achieve the next breakthrough in their field: a nanoscale device measuring only a billionth of a millimeter in size, and all thanks to playing tricks with light. |
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| In this case, nano is used to mean a billionth of a metre. |
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| The amount that reaches the earth is equal to one billionth of total solar energy generated, or the equivalent of about 420 trillion kilowatt-hours. |
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| The application will further Apple's presence as an industry leader for online music, as Jobs also said iTunes is coming close to selling its 12 billionth track. |
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| The Seaway carries its billionth tonne of cargo. |
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| Foursquare just reached the 20 million users mark and recently recorded its two billionth check-in. |
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| An attosecond is one billionth of one billionth of a second. |
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