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How to use the word billions in a Sentence? Page #8

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As far as I'm concerned it's not about immediately refitting all diesels in Germany, i advocate a step-wise plan to refit diesels where the air is particularly bad... The total costs would then be in the low single-digit billions.

Svenja Schulze

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We are so far ahead of other people who were out there who paved the road like Spotify, who burned billions of dollars a year, and we're not even close to that.

Matheson Chief Executive Ted Farnsworth

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Investors are sitting on a large pile of (unrealized) capital gains, we think the scale is likely to be measured certainly in the tens of billions of dollars.

John Lettieri

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We think the scale is likely to be measured certainly in the tens of billions of dollars.

John Lettieri

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Every dollar in SNAP for hungry families returns money to farmers, to our economy and to the Treasury. But after the GOP tax scam’s giveaways for the wealthiest, Republicans are slashing tens of billions from SNAP, threatening to leave millions of seniors, veterans, individuals with disabilities, students and families without the means to put food on the table.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It is reported that the U.S. Post Office will lose $1.50 on average for each package it delivers for Amazon. That amounts to Billions of Dollars, if the P.O. ‘increases its parcel rates, Amazon’s shipping costs would rise by $2.6 Billion.’ This Post Office scam must stop. Amazon must pay real costs (and taxes) now!

President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The Christian faith has lost The Christian faith greatest orator of the last century who gave hope to billions that, even [ though ] we are all sinners, there is hope eternal life thru faith in Jesus Christ.

Liberty University

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

People can earn a good living, the billions in salaries would be cut off and go to drug cartels in Mexico.

Dana Rohrabacher

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Many of our compatriots have lost their lives, many more have been gravely injured, and billions of leones' worth of property [has been] destroyed in the flooding and landslides that swept across some parts of our city.

President Ernest Koroma

Found on CNN
6 years ago

My administration has demanded that all members of NATO finally meet their full and fair financial obligation -- as a result of insistence, billions of dollars have begun to poor into NATO, in fact, people are shocked.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

My administration has demanded that all members of NATO finally meet their full and fair financial obligation—as a result of insistence, billions of dollars have begun to poor into NATO, in fact, people are shocked.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

That was a tremendous day. Tremendous investments in the United States. Hundreds of billions of dollars of investments into the United States and jobs, jobs, jobs.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It was our way of protesting the fact that Trump wants to spend billions of dollars to build a wall that is pretty useless.

Paul Hennessey

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Before you were born there was billions of billions of years you didn't exist, and after you are dead there will be billions of billions of years that you wont exist. You don't remember the moment you where born, and you won't rememeber the moment you die. Life is a break between two eternies, a pause you might call it, and when you have a break or a pause, you dont want to work, live in misery, or struggle, but rather to rest, and enjoy yourself and others, and to live life easy, without worrying about what happens after, and certainly not what happened before. What matters is here and now, everything else is not worth worrying about.

Severin Meiland

added by anonymous
7 years ago

Now you know that's a saving of billions and billions of dollars, many billions of dollars over the course of — it's between 2,500 and 3,000 planes will be the final order, this was a thing that was out of control and now it's great.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The exact amount of money is not important to convey his message, as what may sound like' a lot' to some may not to others, depending on their personal economic background, so expressions like' a lot of money' and' billions and billions of dollars' are ways of conveying the idea of an expensive undertaking while not having to provide specifics( which he may not have).

Jennifer Sclafani

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It's billions of dollars here, you can't ignore that.

Rita Redberg

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Billions and billions of dollars are being wasted on activities that are not delivering results for hardworking American taxpayers.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

For this test to become mainstream it would A.) save lives and B.) save the VA probably billions in dollars in overmedication costs, and yet they’re not doing it and it’s like leaving your brothers out to dry, the overwhelming consensus of the pharmacogenomic community is that most of these tests currently lack evidence of clinical effectiveness. That means they have not shown to have better outcomes over the usual methods of drug prescription, with some exceptions. Many commercial tests target psychiatric disease therapy and pain management. One recent VA review documented that these tests do not yet have evidence for utility, especially in the veteran population.

Carl Higbie

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Airlines have invested billions of dollars in these types of private, cutting-edge seat designs, but as airlines do everything they can to optimize revenue, they're finding that there are more leisure travelers willing to pay for first and business class seats.

Ben Schlappig

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Transpose doesn't require a completely new aircraft or the fundamental redesign of airport infrastructure, instead of spending decades and billions of dollars on designing an entirely new aircraft.

Jason Chua

Found on CNN
7 years ago

There's no doubt that Trump's election and what Republicans are doing to dismantle health care has really given us an opportunity to have an honest dialogue about how we get to health for all, i don't think we would have had the same opportunity if Clinton would have won. Then again, we also wouldn't be in a place where we're going to lose billions of (Medicaid) dollars for California.

Ricardo Lara

Found on CNN
7 years ago

That’s not realistic, we don’t have one or two AIs in the world. Today we have billions.

Ray Kurzweil

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This executive order is another major step toward making the federal government efficient, effective and accountable to the people, there is duplication and redundancy everywhere. Billions and billions of dollars are being wasted on activities that are not delivering results.

President Trump on Monday

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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