Sentence examples for one half billion from inspiring English sources
To date, the Agency has spent over one half billion dollars on this global program and continues to be actively involved in the international Global Polio Eradication Initiative investing primarily in improving acute flaccid paralysis surveillance and laboratory capability to identify cases of polio, as well as communications activities.
Such a situation will be unsustainable for Chinese society if China cannot find new and abundant energy sources with high EROI values, or find some way to support one and one half billion people at a dignified standard of living by much less energy-intensive means.
One half billion dollar training program generated barely three score insurgents, most of whom were promptly killed or captured.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics Lindsayy Renick Mayer, since 1998 the insurance industry has contributed $568 million (that's over one half billion!) to political campaigns.
A little over one year ago, one half million people were impacted when a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Papua New Guinea.
We compiled ground-measured data from approx. one half million forest inventory sample plots across the contiguous United States, Alaska, and northeastern China to map tree species richness, forest stocking, and productivity at a continental scale.
This is a city of two and one half million people.
There are today nearly one half million settlers living in occupied lands (including those in occupied areas around Jerusalem).
At present, about one half million Iraqis are registered as refugees, while almost four million are IDP's.
It was used to develop numerous mapping resources including BAC libraries [ 37], high density gene-based genetic maps [ 38] and about one half million SNPs [ 39].
Upper respiratory tract inflammatory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) affect more than one-half billion people globally.
