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The phrase "about a billion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating a quantity that is approximately one billion, often in contexts involving statistics, finance, or population figures.
Example: "The population of the city is about a billion, making it one of the largest urban areas in the world."
Alternatives: "approximately a billion" or "roughly a billion".
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This took about a billion years.
"It's about a billion a month".
He said it was about a billion".
He, and about a billion TV viewers.
That's about a billion dollars a day.
So we have about a billion time the difference.
The Oxytricha genome itself begins at about a billion nucleotides.
McDonald's uses about a billion pounds of beef every year.
For example, about a billion people have no clean water.
The mayor is talking about a billion dollars.
Motorola, meanwhile, is losing about a billion dollars a quarter.
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