Sentence examples for billion dollar discovery from inspiring English sources
"My dream is that the next billion dollar discovery will stay in Wales," said Prof Chris McGuigan, in charge of a hub to turn research into products.
He added: "My dream is that the next billion dollar discovery will stay in Wales, will create more jobs in Wales and I confidently believe that it will".
There is the odd synchronicity of the movie coming out about a special WWII military unit tasked with recovering European art from the Nazis... coinciding with the billion dollar discovery last week of that huge trove of modernist paintings, many of them masterpieces, hidden in the Munich apartment of a man whose father had been a prominent art dealer.
With target costs in the half a billion dollar range, a Pluto competition would sit somewhere between a Discovery mission and a flagship.
"These are billion dollar companies.
It is doubtful whether many scientists, if they had been told 10 years ago that the investment of half a billion dollars would lead to the discovery of over 100 independent loci for each of the common diseases that afflict humans, would have baulked at the expenditure.
Because the discovery that the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is caused by HIV-1, several billion dollars have been invested worldwide to develop and test new pharmaceutical agents to control the spread of this epidemic disease.
"Except a few billion dollars".
