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Example sentences for: billions

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I mean, the United States has been borrowing tens of billions of dollars every month from foreign investors for so long that I thought it was just something everyone--with the exception of Pat Buchanan and people looking for reasons to bash China--accepted.
Big business has wagered hundreds of billions of dollars on the development of high-tech, low-cost media technology--broadband services, satellites, encryption technology, miniaturized computers and communications devices, you name it--that is largely impervious to the Bennetts and Gores of this world.
He's the one who has set aside billions for a missile defense that won't work.
The new information to be gleaned from the documents and Wigand could conceivably persuade juries in the 300-plus tobacco-liability suits then pending to award hundreds of billions in damages.
The USAT off-lead reports that senior U.S. law enforcement officials now say that Bank of New York records that would have served as evidence of the laundering of billions in Russian mob money have been tampered with or destroyed.