Sentence examples for billion from high-quality English sources.

• I expect that the Monsanto settlement will be closer to €5 billion to €10 billion."

• Export earnings from oil dropped from $25 billion in 1980 to just under $10 billion in 1983.

• The corresponding figures for France (in 1938 francs) were 328 billion, 250 billion, and 453 billion.

• While its future lease obligations amount to $47.2 billion (£38 billion), it has so far only secured $4 billion (£3.20 billion) in lease commitments from customers.

• Right now, China spends about $250 billion on defense every year, and Russia spends at least $60 billion.

• The banking giant's net income rose by 42% to $12.14 billion, driven by its release of $2.9 billion in credit reserves.

• Humira sales outside the US have fallen from $6.3 billion to $4.3 billion to $3.7 billion in that same period.

• JPMorgan’s allowance for credit losses jumped to $34.3 billion in Q2 from $25.4 billion in Q1 and $14.3 billion in Q4 of 2019.

Use billion in a sentence.

• The company now says 2021 revenues will fall between $70.5 billion and $72.5 billion, a more than $10 billion increase over prior guidance.

• So he had 1.01 billion lire in cash and 16.43 billion lire in cash equivalent (ie, the two remaining bank cheques)—17.44 billion lire in total.

• The Navy has reduced its overall budget request, part of the larger Department of Defense's $705.4 billion budget request, by $3 billion to $207.1 billion.

• Some 384,615,384 shares will be available to investors, in a trade potentially worth £1.5 billion to £1.8 billion ($2 billion to $2.5 billion).

• Avast's stock plummeted, and the company lost about £1.1 billion ($1.45 billion) of its £5.1 billion ($6.7 billion) value, the Financial Times reported.

• TRADE, EXCHANGE RATES AND BUDGETS America's visible-trade deficit widened to $36.8 billion in June, from a revised figure of $36.5 billion for May, taking the yearly total to $404.6 billion.

• The DoD has requested $21.3 billion in munitions, including $6 billion for conventional ammunition, $4 billion for strategic missiles and $11.3 billion for tactical missiles.

• (The overall costs of the law were reestimated in 2011 to be $840 billion: $282 billion for tax relief, $284 billion for entitlements, and $274 billion for grants, loans, and contracts.

billion sentence examples

• Large corporations are promised $500 billion of spending in the bill, compared with $604 billion for individuals, $340 billion for state and local governments, and $377 billion for small businesses.

• Additionally, the company now projects reported sales between $79.9 billion and $81.4 billion, operational sales between $81.0 billion and $82.5 billion and adjusted operational sales change between a decline of 0.8 percent and a growth of 1.0 percent.

• Following closely behind Gates and Buffett in America: Larry Ellison ($48 billion), Charles and David Koch ($40 billion a piece), Sheldon Adelson ($38 billion) and the Walton clan (Christy, $36.7 billion, Jim, $34.7 billion, and Alice $34.3).

• They earned €1.101 billion ($1.326 billion), compared with €1,098 billion ($1.322 billion) in 2019 and €1.227 billion ($1.478 billion) in 2018, the record year, according to figures from Observatorio de la Fundación Innovación Bankinter and El Referente.