Sentence examples for a billion a from inspiring English sources
"It's about a billion a month".
So Americans paid Ahmad Chalabi to gull them into a war that is costing them a billion a week -- and a precious human cost.
As the allies pour billions in, some in Hamid Karzai's inner circle, including his brother, may be transferring as much as a billion a year out to Dubai and elsewhere.
John Cridland, director-general, said: "The CBI has been crying out for real action on infrastructure, investment and exports; £5bn on near-term infrastructure like the Tube to Battersea, half a billion a year tax relief for small firms and £1.5bn extra export support should boost investment and create jobs.
Suddenly you see why, for this government, subsidising the rents of the poor via housing benefit is deemed to be wasteful and wrong – but subsidising roofs over middle earners' heads (to the tune of nearly a billion a year through the new Isas by 2020, plus £3.7bn on cheap house loans under the existing help-to-buy scheme), weirdly enough, is not.
Even more cash could be in the pipeline for Google Ventures in the future, according to Maris, who told Reuters: "Larry [Page, Google CEO] has repeatedly asked me: 'What do you think you could do with a billion a year?'".
A hundred yards, a hundred and twenty, a hundred and seventy.
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Lassie earns over a hundred thousand a year.
We make a thousand a day.
