They own half a billion people.

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.

And Hasbro made about, you know, a billion and a half dollars.

Video This Earth is four and a half billion years old.

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.

We've made half a billion impressions with marketing and PR for this brand, Purple Moon.

The sun has been shining for four and a half billion years, but it'll be another six billion years before its fuel runs out.

6,000 different languages spoken by six and a half billion people, all different colors, shapes, sizes.

And that is how our solar system was formed, four and a half billion years ago.

It's going to cost us 10 billion. And we'll produce half a gigawatt of fusion power.

You can buy half a billion today, and they are actually better, because they are faster.

Imagine way back, four and a half billion years ago, there is a vast chemical soup of stuff.

The Earth was formed 4.6 billion years ago and was probably too hot for about the first half billion years.

So life appeared on Earth within half a billion years of it being possible, which is short compared to the 10 billion year lifetime of a planet of Earth type.

These red dots, these red areas, basically provide the food and livelihood for more than half a billion people.

Now, this is just a single switch and you need half a billion for a computer, so we have a long way to go.

Nonetheless, 2.6 billion people over half of the developing world's population do not have improved sanitation facilities, and 1.1 billion are still using water from unimproved sources.

The total stock of FDI of developing countries rose from 129 billion in 1990 to 859 billion in 2003, with nearly half of it South South.8

In 2003, they had 635 billion invested in foreign countries, more than half in other developing countries.

We've only been around for the past 200,000 years as a species, yet we've reached a population of more than six and a half billion people.

It is, first of all, profoundly unequal half the world's people still living on less than two dollars a day a billion people with no access to clean water two and a half billion no access to sanitation a billion going to bed hungry every night one in four deaths every year from AIDS, TB, malaria and the variety of infections associated with dirty water 80 percent of them under five years of age.

MUNICH After months of games and brinkmanship, and only a week after Greek voters rejected the conditions for a 7.5 billion ( 8.2 billion) rescue package, the end came swiftly. The eurozone s political leaders agreed to start negotiations on a much larger package, worth 86 billion, almost half of Greece s GDP.

Half of each year's 100 billion points of thermal plastic pellets will be made into fast track trash.

To date, we have pledged 4.5 billion more than half of all the money pledged to the Fund.

But when was the last time you worried about smallpox, a disease that killed half a billion people last century and no longer is with us?

So the three and a half billion people that suffer every year as a result, and the two million kids that die every year, will live.

The most significant escalation rolled in this week with new tariffs affecting 200 billion ( 150 billion) worth of items, effectively taxing half of all goods coming into the US from China.

In other words, if you put onto the roads, as is currently happening, 1,000 new cars every day statistically, it's the biggest booming auto market in the world and the half a billion bicycles serving one and a third billion people are reducing.

If we invested about 13 billion dollars over the next four years, we could bring that incidence down to half.

Low income countries received nearly half of the 41 billion increase in remittances to developing countries from 2001 to 2004.

American banks have incurred more than half of these massive penalties. The European bill amounts to just over 100 billion roughly half of which was paid by the top seven British banks.

Together with their mother Anna the brothers own 38 properties worth more than half a billion dollars, amassed since the family bought a Smith Street, Collingwood, shop in 1973.

When he, 40 years from now, is the age of Nancy Brown, there are going to be another two and a half billion people on the planet.

For example, the United States is projected to provide 3.2 billion, or more than half of total donor contributions, in 2005.

Africa, with its population of one billion, is also gaining economic momentum, contributing further to the rapid expansion of the global middle class, which is expected to surge from 1.8 billion in 2010 to 3.2 billion in 2020 and to 4.9 billion people more than half of the world s population in 2030.

Now, in order to do this we need to invest about 180 billion dollars half of it to retool the car, truck and plane industries half of it to build the advanced bio fuel industry.

Even before the recent food price spikes, an estimated billion people were suffering from chronic hunger, while another two billion were experiencing malnutrition, bringing the total number of food insecure people to around three billion, or almost half the world s population. Roughly 18,000 children died daily as a direct or indirect consequence of malnutrition.

It has been estimated that there are over two billion radios in use, with nearly half of those being in the developing countries.

Within a year of taking office, my predecessor increased the NFA s debt to 18 billion pesos. In the course of the next eight and a half years, her administration imported much more rice than was needed, resulting in 177 billion pesos in debt by the time she stepped down.

Food supply has not collapsed (1.5 billion hectares of arable land are being used, but another 2.7 billion hectares are in reserve). Malnourishment has dropped by more than half, from 35 of the world s population to under 16 .

More than 40 of its population lives on less than a dollar a day. Over half a billion people live without modern forms of energy, and the continent s share of global trade remains a paltry 3 .

The limits to the global economy are new, resulting from the unprecedented size of the world s population and the unprecedented spread of economic growth to nearly the entire world. There are now seven billion people on the planet, compared to just three billion a half century ago.

If you don t think this work important, consider that half the nitrogen in your body is synthetic, a product of a Haber Bosch factory. Or that without the added food made possible by their discovery, the earth could only support about 4 billion people at least 2 billion less than today.

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

Of this sum, only about half is readily identifiable. On top of this 80 billion gap, developing countries will need another 30 billion per year to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector alone and get on a low carbon development path, and 10 40 billion dollars more per year to adapt to the already inevitable impact of climate change .