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The phrase "a billion years" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing time spans, particularly in scientific, historical, or speculative contexts.
Example: "The universe is estimated to be around 13.8 billion years old, which gives us a glimpse into its vast history."
Alternatives: "one billion years" or "a billion-year period".
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This took about a billion years.
Experiments show planet cooled dramatically in half a billion years.
In half a billion years, the planet will be uninhabitable.
You can travel a billion years in a minute.
They could have found us a billion years ago".
"That would not happen in a billion years," he said.
Thus, you would calculate that your rock is about a billion years old.
Assuming a minor merger occurred, the black holes should eventually merge after about a billion years.
You get plant cell structure probably at the level of about a billion years.
Numerous Dnmt5-containing organisms that diverged more than a billion years ago exhibit clustered methylation, specifically in nucleosome linkers.
The planet is only a billion years older, but estimates vary on when it became habitable.
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