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Example sentences for: billion

How can you use “billion” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

According to the New York Post today, it was $173 billion.
You'll notice no one's proposing a billion dollars of public funds to promote ballet!
After an eight-month review, federal regulators on Monday revealed serious objections to the nearly $12 billion Lockheed/Northrop merger, and may file suit to block it.
The Washington Post 's top national story is an account of how, fifteen years and $50 billion after Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" speech, the U.S. still doesn't have an anti-ballistic-missile defense system.
5 billion of that approximately $4 billion federal subsidy was passed along to lucky homeowners, and $1.