Sentence examples for billion pounds of cuts from inspiring English sources

'The pre-Budget report and the billion pounds of cuts the London government plans to impose on Scotland have transformed the terms of Scottish political debate,' said a spokesman for First Minister Alex Salmond yesterday.

He said that under Labour, people would see "a sensible, decent, real track for technical education; they will see a much stronger, not weaker, relationship with Europe that is crucial to our science base, and perhaps most important of all, they won't see north of 50 billion pounds of cuts that will risk destroying the pipeline of talent into science, technology and engineering".

But on Friday, the company recalled 1.2 million pounds of primal cuts, subprimal cuts and boxed beef made on June 17, June 24 and July 8.

It cut 7,650 jobs last year, including 1,400 in the investment bank, as part of a restructuring unveiled a year ago by Jenkins to cut 1.7 billion pounds of annual costs.

It described this as 'an appalling attack on spending to support Scotland's economy and public services.' But the government accused the SNP of breathtaking cynicism and inventing a 'bogus billion pounds' worth of cuts'.

Labour plans two pounds of spending cuts for every pound in tax increases by 2014-15.

They had two beach chairs, two pounds of cold cuts, two gallons of water, a case of Bud Light and a copy of Golf Digest.

"Sinn Féin have to take a decision, that they are going to cut half a billion pounds of the budget in Northern Ireland, or else address the issue of welfare reform, there's nothing in between," he said.

1.6 billion pounds of explosives.

An estimated 1.4 billion pounds of PCBs have been produced worldwide and approximately several hundred million pounds have been released into the environment.

More than one billion pounds of pesticides are used each year in the United States, with more than 700 million pounds used annually in agriculture (Donaldson et al. 2002).