Sentence examples for 17bn from high-quality English sources.

• The stake is worth around $17bn.

• By one calculation that is the modern equivalent of about £17bn.

• Exxon's $17bn to $20bn write-down reflects a wildly optimistic gamble 10 years ago.

• If £350m a week – £17bn annually – is what it takes to protect £71bn (and that’s just what financial services contributes remember) it will be money well spent.

• And Russia has lent $17bn to oil projects and to finance arms sales.

• Tiffany wants the French luxury-goods company to complete the $17bn agreement.

• With a debt burden of at least $17bn Hertz had been struggling before the outbreak.

• The other claims could have seen the taxman being forced to pay out more than £17bn.

Use 17bn in a sentence.

• That is a stretch: AWS is estimated to have generated revenues of about $17bn in 2017.

• In the UK, the beauty and personal care industry is worth £17bn, according to research company Mintel.

• Despite borrowing 19% of its GDP this year, Britain will save about £13bn ($17bn) on debt interest compared with last year.

• “The saving for the exchequer will be enormous, estimated to be over £17bn for claims relating to VAT repayments standing behind this case.

• Elevator Technology (ET), its lift business, could be worth €15bn-18bn ($17bn-20bn), roughly equivalent to Thyssenkrupp’s market value (including net debt).

• A new Treasury document estimated that putting right the unlawful discrimination would cost £17bn in total, and that about 3 million individuals were affected.

• In 2018, the total value of that trade was almost $67bn according to the US Trade Representative, including $17bn worth of imports that Americans bought from Hong Kong.

• The government of the day took the extraordinary step of compensating the slave owners for loss of their 'property', as Britain's slave owners were paid £17bn in today's money, whilst the slaves received nothing.

17bn sentence examples

• Yum China, which was spun off from Yum Brands in 2016 and operates the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell fast-food chains in China, reportedly rejected a $17bn buy-out offer from a consortium of private investment firms.

• A new report by the IPPR thinktank’s Environmental Justice Commission found government needs to boost spending on climate and the environment from £17bn to £50bn annually to hit its target, including £12bn for low-carbon transport and £10bn for low-carbon buildings.

• Upping public investment on spending for climate and nature from the current £17bn to at least £42bn a year – or around 5 per cent of public spending – will tackle social inequality, create jobs, improve people’s lives and protect British wildlife and nature, they said.

• But Selby said that, coming in the middle of a pandemic and the Brexit transition period, a £17bn public sector pensions bill “is probably among the last things the government needed”, and represented a huge cost “which can only be borne either by cuts to services or higher taxes”.