Sentence examples similar to a billion dollar initial from inspiring English sources
It has not helped matters that the city's share of the cost has more than quadrupled — to nearly half a billion dollars from the initial optimistic projections of just over $100 million — and that the opening has been pushed back two years to 2012.
He pocketed almost half a billion dollars in an initial public offering, plus a further $230 million for his company, selling astake in Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. in 1997.
Goldberg left Bleacher Report in February, and has worked at a breakneck pace to build up his women's publishing venture: by March, he'd raised a million dollars in initial seed money.
Maybe for a billion dollars.
"A billion dollars per product!
For an initial capital cost of 19 million Australian dollars, or $17.6 million, and a recent extension outlay of 6.6 million dollars, the pipeline system is estimated to have returned a billion dollars in benefit to South Australia.
Hillary made that sum of nearly a hundred thousand dollars from an initial stake of a thousand dollars.
The first of the film adaptations, released late last year, made a hundred and seventy-seven million dollars in its initial seven weeks.
