Example sentences of "a billion [noun pl] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These three decisions alone show the cutting-edge of semi-literacy winning over the high cultural standards that the BBC is supposed to stand for , and indeed the justification — the only one — for the subvention of over a billion pounds a year from the British taxpayer . |
| 2 | Higher excise duty accounts for most of the difference , stores like Tesco reckon it 's losing them sales of half a billion pounds a year . |
| 3 | The Oil War was costing us a billion dollars a day , and we already had more than four hundred and twenty-five thousand men in Saudi Arabia . |
| 4 | Hey and listen , Pat , I do n't want to see or hear any reference to that part of the plan which shows that we can save up to a billion dollars a year by supplying components from the European plants to fit US manufactured vehicles . |
| 5 | European component manufacturing costs are lower than in the States , and we could save the Corporation around a billion dollars a year by purchasin' components from our European plants . |
| 6 | So what 's different about Mark 's plan to sell components from our European plants into the United States , if we can save the Corporation a billion dollars a year by doin' so ? , |
| 7 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |
| 8 | Between 1982 and 1987 , Brazil paid back some $70 billion to its public and private creditors — averaging well over a billion dollars a month — and its only reward was to be $20 billion deeper in debt than in 19821 . |
| 9 | In an attempt to prevent any further loss of the country 's mangroves , Ecuadorian environmentalists are calling for strict control over the expansion of shrimp farming , a key export industry which earns Ecuador half a billion dollars a year in foreign exchange . |