Sentence examples for around one billion from inspiring English sources
Pinault-Printemps-Redoute has thus saved "around one billion euros," or $1.14 billion, as it has increased its stake in Gucci to 63.2percentt from 52percentt, said Thomas Kamm, chief spokesman for the company.
The Government of Orissa estimated total damage at 39680 million Indian Rupees (around one billion US dollar) [ 26, 27].
This volcanic activity went on until around one billion years ago – surprisingly recently.
Modeled after the Soviet Union's Ministry of State Security (MGB), the Stasi was staffed with 90,000 agents who generated around one billion bureaucratic reports while spying on fellow citizens.
As a result, the IPCC special report on climate change adaptation estimates that around one billion people in dry regions may face increasing water scarcity.
"Whether the brain reaches its full adult capacity of around one billion connectable neurons depends in large part on early childhood development," the report cautioned.
O'Neill describes Josie as "almost a freak — five feet eleven in her stockings," and weighing "around one hundred and eighty" pounds.
Various incarnations of the classic mutagenesis approach envisaged in the early days have provided around one hundred learning defective mutant fly strains.
The 454 pyrosequencing technology is based on sequencing-by-synthesis which is performed in parallel on around one million beads deposited in wells on a plate.
The app garnered around one million downloads on its first day.
