They came to land 1.3 billion years ago, and plants followed several hundred million years later.

What European nation, indeed, dares to put at risk a Chinese order for several billion euros?

Though likely once habitable, Venus was over the course of several billion years exposed to too much heat and ultraviolet light.

On the basis of the 69 billion of ODA recorded by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for 2003 and the longer term commitments made by several DAC member countries, ODA is expected to reach 88.4 billion by 2006, and could reach 100 billion by 2010.

Assuming that current trends in resource availability are maintained, significant additional funding of several billion United States dollars will be needed over the period from 2005 to 2007.

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

Education Project 1998 2.16 billion 2001 6.63 billion.

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.

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

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.

It's about 3.3 billion pounds per year out of 620 billion.

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

The largest home sources of South South FDI (based on outward FDI stock) were Hong Kong (China) by far the largest ( 283 billion in stock) Brazil ( 45 billion), Singapore ( 40 billion), the Republic of Korea ( 17 billion) and Malaysia ( 15 billion).

Toshiba s recent accounting scandal the company was found to have inflated its profits by 151.8 billion ( 1.2 billion) over several years since 2008 presents an opportunity for Japan s government to demonstrate its seriousness about the new regulations. Toshiba CEO Hisao Tanaka and other senior executives have had to resign the interim CEO apologized to Abe s office

I agree with this goal, and have devoted the last fifteen years of my life and several billion dollars of my fortune to attaining it. Yet I find myself in sharp disagreement with the Bush administration.

The President underlined the Board's concern at the misuse of the Internet by illicit drug traffickers, pointing out that several billion doses of medicine containing internationally controlled substances were illicitly sold over the Internet every year.

The possible impact can be gauged by looking at where the 300 billion in remittances are distributed. In 2006, poorer European countries received about 50 billion, Africa got 38 billion, Latin America and the Caribbean 68 billion, the Middle East 24 billion.

If inward FDI stock data from recipient countries are used, the largest sources of South South FDI were Hong Kong (China) ( 223 billion), the British Virgin Islands ( 111 billion), China (81 billion), Singapore ( 54 billion) and Taiwan Province of China ( 49 billion).

So these poorest two billion will, in the next decades, increase to three billion, and they will thereafter increase to four billion.

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

200 billion.

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.

Recreational fishing in California generates 2.9 billion in sales, 5 billion in personal income and 5.7 billion in value added to the economy.

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But reliable estimates range between 60 billion and 200 billion dollars per year.

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

While the proportion of this trade that is illegal is difficult to determine, it is estimated that the financial cost of the illicit global wildlife trade runs into several billion dollars and that its environmental costs are immeasurable.

Bilateral assistance stood at 3.3 billion in 2003, up from 2.3 billion in 2002.

Remember, one billion?

Twenty five billion.

In 1994, Iran exported 37 billion in goods by 2007, the figure had nearly doubled, to 70 billion. In roughly the same period, Iran s imports also soared, from 22 billion in 1994 to 45 billion in 2006.

European policy thus revolved around simultaneously seducing Israel and bribing the Palestinian Authority. Financing Israel s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank served both objectives at the same time, at a cost to European taxpayers of several billion euros.

Foreign direct investment inflows to Africa increased from 12 billion in 2002 to 15 billion in 2003 and are likely to reach 20 billion in 2004.

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.

In 2015, Brazil's international direct investment was 64.6 billion, down from 73.1 billion in 2014.

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

We're now 6.8 billion people, and we're expected to be 9 billion people by 2050.

Such remittances are estimated to have increased by 10 billion in 2004 to 126 billion.

There were several several of these items were disappointments.

The rest of the developing world, whose population amounts to 4.5 billion, includes the two population giants China, with 1.3 billion people, and India, with 1.1 billion.

During the same period, annualized US imports declined by 284 billion more than US exports, and China s annualized trade surplus increased by 249 billion. In other words, from January 2008 to January 2009, the US withdrew 284 billion and China 249 billion in annualized demand from the world economy, whereas Germany provided 173 billion and Japan 157 billion in annualized demand stimulus to the world economy.

In absolute terms, the outward FDI stock from developing countries increased from 60 billion in 1980 to 129 billion in 1990 and 859 billion in 2003 (table 1).

That is, they're meaningless without context 500 billion for this pipeline, 20 billion for this war.

By 2003, donor funding stood at 4.2 billion and domestic resources were estimated at 11 billion.

Since 2000, American assistance has nearly doubled, rising from 10 billion to 19 billion in 2004.