A billion of us are obese, while a further billion starve.

There's a billion people obese or overweight and a billion people hungry.

It began to expand about a million, billion, billion, billion billionth of a second I think I got that right after the Big Bang.

A budget expenditure of Rs 34.15 billion was earmarked for rural development activities exclusively for irrigation (Rs 25.19 billion), land reclamation (Rs 1.77 billion) rural development (Rs 6.19 billion) and rural electrification (Rs 1 billion) during 2003 04.

Every time I breathe in, I'm breathing in a million billion billion atoms of oxygen.

Indeed, if projections are correct, donors will have contributed 6.4 billion of the targeted 6.1 billion and developing countries will have mobilized 12.7 billion, a figure larger than the target of 12.4 billion.

There's a new industry in town, a 22 billion dollar, 2.2 billion sq. ft. industry that of personal storage.

What you have to think about is we have a universe with a hundred billion galaxies, a hundred billion stars each.

They own half a billion people.

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Not to beat a dead horse, but this is a global food system where there's a billion people hungry and billion people obese.

Moreover, ODA was expected to increase to 130 billion by 2010, from 80 billion in 2004, and aid to sub Saharan Africa was expected to double, from 25 billion to 50 billion a year over the same period.

Flows to South East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Pacific were 19 billion, 6 billion, 6 billion and 0.2 billion, respectively.

Military expenditure accounts for 1,000 billion a year, including, sadly, more than 200 billion by developing countries, and that we spend maybe 50 or 60 billion on development assistance.

That's about 300 billion dollars a year.

I think it's closer to a billion.

The IMF learned this in 1997, when an inadequate bailout of South Korea forced a second round of negotiations. In Greece, the problem is even worse, as the 86 billion ( 94 billion) plan now under discussion follows a 110 billion bailout in 2010 and a 130 billion rescue in 2012.

Now people estimate it's created about a half a billion dollars, or will create about a half a billion dollars, in tax revenues for the city.

The shuttle is costing a billion dollars a launch.

Education Project 1998 2.16 billion 2001 6.63 billion.

The Palestinian Authority's gross national product was 3.7 billion in 2004, a slight increase on the 3.6 billion in 2003, though below the pre 2000 figure estimated at 5.0 billion.

Today 1.2 billion people live on one United States dollar a day, with 3 billion more living on less than two dollars a day.

They're everywhere, six billion a month in India.

There's a billion people without clean drinking water.

We live on a planet 6.3 billion people.

I launched a project named Six Billion Others.

This followed a 17 billion increase in 2003.

That's around 130 billion dollars a year it's a lot.

The authorities will issue 35.2 billion in new securities, comprising 15 billion in par bonds, 11.9 billion in discount bonds and 8.3 billion in quasi par bonds.

So, this actually applied to the problem of so there's a half a billion to a billion people in the world don't have access to cheap eyeglasses.

UNDP had a 28.2 per cent share at 2.8 billion, while other specialized agencies, funds, and programmes had a 26.2 per cent share ( 2.6 billion), UNICEF 13.4 per cent ( 1.3 billion) and UNFPA 3.2 per cent ( 317.5 million).

The amount of export transactions was 206.494 billion yuan ( 29.86 billion), with a decrease of 1 on year on year basis.

There was a big gap between the one billion in the industrialized world and the two billion in the developing world.

Well the answer, of course, is, if you spend 125 billion or 130 billion dollars a year in a country, you co opt almost everybody.

Frankly, four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars, and a traffic jam with no emissions is still a traffic jam.

But, this time not one billion dollars, one billion stars.

In addition, the Egyptian military gave a 1 billion loan to the government, and another 1 billion was received through grants from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, bringing the loss of reserves since December 2010 closer to 22 billion. The other source of international reserves, tourism, brought in only 8 billion, down sharply from 12 billion in 2010.

You see there, it's about 620 billion a year.

And there is a 100 billion clicks per day.

There's like a billion social sites on the Web.

Corruption alone costs Africa 148 billion dollars a year.

Capital flight out of Africa, 80 billion a year.

Now, 21 billion hours, it's a lot of time.

Imagine a billion years ago, two black holes collided.

We're selling a billion cell phones worldwide this year.