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Discover LudwigThe phrase "about billions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing quantities or estimates in the context of large numbers, particularly in financial, scientific, or demographic discussions.
Example: "The project is expected to cost about billions of dollars over the next decade."
Alternatives: "approximately billions" or "around billions".
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We are talking about billions of dollars of medical costs.
"We are talking about billions of dollars coming into the U.S. Treasury," Shulman said.
"Even if we survive climate change and continue for thousands of years, we're talking about billions of years here.
In talks with one bank, Treasury officials were told about billions in Libyan holdings, including cash and investments such as securities.
We are talking about billions of anonymous search queries between Aug. 22 and Sept. 22 that were classified into policy issues.
Don't talk about billions.
The Internet is not going to be about billions of people going to millions of websites.
But the biennial exhibit is at least as much about billions of dollars of military spending.
Now if you talk about billions of years of sunshine, then well, hey, you get a few hundred billion barrels of oil.
When you talk about billions of dollars in deposits being regulated, there is a different approach that you take for the cloud.
We may talk about billions of dollars going into the agriculture sector, but the smallholders are putting their labor, their effort, their very lives into that business.
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