Sentence examples for billion dollar figures from inspiring English sources

The lack of transparency and solid metrics results in a situation where the Pakistani public (and indeed U.S. Congressional appropriators) are exposed to widely publicized billion dollar figures of U.S. assistance to Pakistan and yet are unable to satisfy the expectation those pronouncements create in terms of visible and demonstrably effective projects.

I guess if you extrapolate that data you can get yourself a billion dollar figure, but that's rather a bit hocus pocus, don't you think?

And he added, in a note of caution, "That forty dollar figure is deceptive because we owe 42 dollars of it to China".

Somebody's going to make a million dollars figuring out a way to get those solar panels made and deployed in our hoods.

But the three-inch binder included only four precise dollar figures.

Although he did indicate that the 9 billion Canadian dollar figure includes other costs like training, improvements to airbases as well as simulators.

The deal amount is undisclosed but a little digging suggests that it is likely a single-digit million U.S. dollar figure.

During the past decade, Mongolia's per-capita foreign aid has been among the highest in the world, and the country has run up a foreign debt of about a billion dollars — a figure that is roughly equivalent to the annual G.D.P.

The new GHRF report is the only one that attaches dollar figures and funding sources to its recommendations.

You've probably seen the figures: a billion dollars to build, 362m long, 226,963 tonnes, 23 pools including waveriders and waterslides, 20 restaurants.

For example, it questioned the office's use of the computer program Quicken, noting that the "the software has difficulty processing dollar figures with eight or more digits".