How to use in-sentence of “billion”:
+ On September 15, 2014, Microsoft bought Mojang for 2.5 billion US dollars.
+ Overall, Laura caused $14.1 billion in damage and killed 77 people.
+ In 2012, the CEB lost 61.2 billion rupees and the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation which supplied fuel below cost 89.7 billion rupees.
+ On December 5, Voov South Africa earned a mark of 1million South African users with the total of a billion rand.
+ Until 2002, Graham’s lifetime audience with radio and television broadcast was more than two billion people.
Example sentences of “billion”:
+ It is a huge group of galaxies forming a giant sheet-like pattern which is about 10 billion light-years long, 7.2 billion light-years wide, and almost 1 billion light-years thick.
+ The music video for his song “Thrift Shop Thrift Shop” has been viewed more than 1 billion times on YouTube.
+ The Assessment Capacities Project estimates that the hurricane has caused $1.37 billion in losses across the island, which is equal to 226 percent of its 2016 GDP.
+ In January 2001 the federal government made a commitment to progressively contribute A$356 million to the M7 project, with the remaining A$1.5 billion required for the design and construction provided by the private sector.
+ In June 2020, it was revealed by Forbes magazine that she is the 22nd richest person in the world, largely thanks to her $38 billion divorce settlement.
+ These tourists spent 7.55 billion baht.
+ Almost 60 people died and property damage totaled between $20 billion and $23 billion, making this earthquake one of the costliest disasters in the history of the United States.
+ They are usually thought to be between 1 billion and 10 billion years old.
+ Making reliable cost estimates is difficult, and estimates for new reactors in the USA range from $5 billion to $10 billion per unit.
+ It is a huge group of galaxies forming a giant sheet-like pattern which is about 10 billion light-years long, 7.2 billion light-years wide, and almost 1 billion light-years thick.
+ The music video for his song "Thrift Shop Thrift Shop" has been viewed more than 1 billion times on YouTube.
+ The Assessment Capacities Project estimates that the hurricane has caused $1.37 billion in losses across the island, which is equal to 226 percent of its 2016 GDP.
+ It has had sales of over $2 Billion around the world.
+ Four billion years from now, the increase in the Earth’s surface temperature will cause a bad greenhouse effect.
+ A typical burst releases more energy in less than a tenth of a second than the Sun will in its whole life of 10 billion years.
+ Estimates made in 2006 by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimate that 52% of the nation’s GDP, or $2.7 billion annually, is generated by the drug trade.
+ Notably, the City of Los Angeles agreed in 2007, by a 12-0 vote, to spend some $2 billion USD over the next 50 years.
+ The Virgo Supercluster’s volume is about 7000 times that of the Local Group or 100 billion times that of the Milky Way.
More in-sentence examples of “billion”:
+ In three billion years the Sun is expected to be 33% more luminous.
+ In 2015, they had 4.2 billion trades.
+ On 17 September 2014, US$1.35 billion coal-fired Norochcholai Coal Power PlantNorochcholai Power Station was commissioned by the Chinese President Xi Jinping on his visit to Sri Lanka.
+ The age of the Earth is estimated at a little over 4.5 billion years.
+ With this evidence, Mojzis suggested that life existed on the planet already by 3.85 billion years ago.
+ Cratonic lithosphere is much older than oceanic lithosphere – up to 4 billion years versus 180 million years.
+ The Nordertor stamps were sold over 3 billion times.
+ The world’s top coal producer is China, which produces about 4 billions tonnes each year, followed in order by India, United States, Australia, Indonesia and Russia with less than a billion tonnes each.
+ The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that by 2025, 1.9 billion people will be living in countries or regions with total water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world population could be under stress conditions.
+ NEAR scientists have found that most of the bigger rocks scattered across Eros were blown from a single crater in a meteorite collision approximately 1 billion years ago.
+ The Late Heavy Bombardment or lunar cataclysm, is a period of time about 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago.
+ It is estimated that the Republic has over one billion tons of oil deposits.
+ According to Forbes the second richest person in Hungary with a net worth of 192.0 billion Hungarian forintHUF.
+ It has 5 billion records online.
+ His singing career was around fifty years long and more than 1 billion records of his have been sold worldwide.
+ He claimed that the principal officers including the speaker of the House allotted to themselves a sum of N40 billion out of the 100 billion naira apportioned to the House of Representatives.
+ According to its redshift, the quasar is about 8 billion light years from Earth, while the lensing galaxy is only 400 million light years away.
+ If the Big Bang was the beginning of time, then there was no universe before the Big Bang, since there could not be any “before” if there was no time! Other ideas state that the Big Bang was not the beginning of time 13.8 billion years ago.
+ In the end, Hurricane Alicia killed 21 people and caused $2 billion in damage.
+ The Tube Map helps navigate over a billion journeys a year in the biggest city in Europe.
+ Hurricane Emily caused a lot of damage, nearly $1 billion worth, and about 15 people got killed.
+ In 2012, there were more than 1.1 billion Catholics worldwide.
+ Businesses spend $18.7 billion worldwide on market research, as reported by CASRO.
+ In other words, a person’s sixth great grandparents would number 256 or generations or just over a billion ancestors.
+ During Apple’s 2012 Worldwide Developer’s Conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the App Store has 400 million accounts with registered credit cards, 650,000 available apps to download and “an astounding 30 billion apps” downloaded from the app store.
+ With over $1 billion in revenue worldwide, it became the fourth-highest-grossing movie at the time, and highest-grossing movie of 2008; it also set the record for highest-grossing domestic opening with $158 million, a record it held for three years.
+ The Vredefort crater’s age is about two billion years ago, which puts it in the Palaeoproterozoic era.
+ Note that the idea that the radius of the observable universe must amount to only 13.8 billion light-years is incorrect.
+ Some time in the next 1.5 billion–4.5 billion years, the axis’s tilt may begin to change into bad versions, with changes in the axis’s tilt of up to 90°.
+ These granite mountains hold the evidence of a billion years of geological evolution.
+ With $7 billion in damage makes it the 13th costliest hurricane in U.S.
+ According to market analysts, Bangladesh’s e-commerce business market will reach USD 20 billion by 2020.
+ Eukaryotes such as acritarchs blossomed, as did cyanobacteria; in fact, stromatolites reached their greatest abundance and diversity during the Proterozoic, peaking roughly 1.2 billion years ago.
+ The oldest stars are 13.7 billion years old.
+ Though oxygen was undoubtedly released by photosynthesis well back in Archean times, it could not build up to any significant degree until chemical sinks–Oxidationunoxidized sulfur and iron—had been filled; until roughly 2.3 billion years ago, oxygen was probably only 1 to 2% of its current level. Banded iron formations, which provide most of the world’s iron ore, were also a prominent chemical sink; most accumulation ceased after 1.9 billion years ago, either due to an increase in oxygen or a more thorough mixing of the oceanic water column.
+ Tropical Storm Agatha Tropical Storm Agatha in 2010 caused over $1 billion in damage and over three hundred deaths across Central America.
+ A global supercontinent existed from about 1.8 to 1.5 billion years ago in the Palaeoproterozoic era.
+ The OCC has about $100 billion US dollars of money deposited by big banks and trading companies.
+ The $13 billion compares to the U.S.
+ Tropical cyclones in North Carolina caused at least $10 billion in damage.
+ That storm caused $125 billion in damage in late August 2017.
+ The earliest known life forms found on Earth are fossils of microorganisms in 3.46 billion year old rocks in Western Australia.
+ It caused over $1 billion USD in damage.
+ We know of about 3,000 of these nebulae in our galaxy, compared to 200 billion stars.
+ The appeal has raised over £1 billion since it started in 1980.
+ Isidore left $1.3 billion in damage and 22 deaths.
+ In 2007, the trust had $6.4 billion in endowment, but this amount dropped to $4.5 billion in 2009.
+ More than 1.4 billion adults are overweight in the world.
+ In three billion years the Sun is expected to be 33% more luminous.
+ In 2015, they had 4.2 billion trades.
+ On 17 September 2014, US$1.35 billion coal-fired Norochcholai Coal Power PlantNorochcholai Power Station was commissioned by the Chinese President Xi Jinping on his visit to Sri Lanka.