Sentence examples for a billion were from inspiring English sources

California itself topped five billion eggs last year, and more than a billion were laid in New York, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

Postcards were invented in the Austro-Hungarian empire in the 1860s and, by the turn of the century, had gone viral; in 1903, more than a billion were sent just in Germany.

The result: a tiny fraction, roughly 1 in a billion, were able to replicate themselves.

Nearly 1.5 billion adults were overweight in 2008, and of these half a billion were clinically obese – almost double the rates of 1980 [ 9].

A billion is cool.

And over half a million were displaced.

"A hundred was too many.

(A hundred and seventy-two are still there).

A nine is near-perfect.

Half a million is a common estimate.

Making a four was a bonus".