Sentence examples for approaching a billion from inspiring English sources

Core, mantle, crust — they are models of the very planet they are filling up at a rate worldwide approaching a billion a year.

Woods's worth is approaching a billion dollars, making him the richest sportsman in the world.

The current reality is that in the developing world a quarter of the population — approaching a billion people — is illiterate.

Before the economic downturn, the Mugrabis said that the value of their collection was approaching a billion dollars.

He pegged the Oscar audience as, variously, "a billion," "an estimated billion," "approaching a billion," "a reported billion," and "more than a billion".

"THE world is too much with us," complained the poet back in 1802 as the global population was approaching a billion and the industrial revolution was starting to spread a noxious culture of getting and spending.

The reader comments — approaching a thousand — are worth sampling, too.

The New Yorker's Twitter feed (@newyorker) is approaching a million followers.

(In Afghanistan, the number of service members who didn't make it home is fast approaching a thousand).

By The New Yorker August 18 ,2011 The New Yorker's Twitter feed (@newyorker) is approaching a million followers.

After four months and nine days of staring into this monitor for what has probably amounted in aggregate to something closely approaching a thousand hours, that's enough.