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The phrase "a two billion" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in contexts where you are referring to a quantity of two billion, but it should be phrased as "two billion" without the article "a."
Example: "The company reported earnings of two billion dollars last year."
Alternatives: "two billion" or "a sum of two billion."
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If the Washington Post had a two billion dollar endowment, it would be able to fund a very healthy newsroom.
The inset box shows the Chandra data of one of the observed objects, a two billion year old star called GJ 176, located 30 light years from Earth.
In 2011, the Iraqi government decided to let a two billion Euro contract to the Bauer Group, a Germany-based engineering company, to make the dam safe by constructing underground walls around its foundations.
Two in the US – Ekso Bionics and ReWalk Robotics – and one in Japan, named Cyberdyne (yes, like that Cyberdyne) where is enjoys a two billion dollars market cap.
Facebook's can-do hacker culture that codes with caution to the wind, that asks for forgiveness instead of permission, is failing to scale to the responsibility of being a two billion user communications institution.
His own charity, humbly known as the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Global Foundation, is a two billion dollar financial tangle.
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