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It totals about $100 million to $200 million over four years, a tiny portion of the billions of dollars a year the city spends on construction projects.

And in the most flagrant cases, HUD holds out the possibility of withholding a portion of the billions of dollars of federal funding it hands out each year.

Parking fines generate about $600 million a year for city services, a small portion of the billions of dollars raised by the city annually.

The trouble with the data compiled by big phone companies like Verizon is that it may cover a receding portion of the billions of directory assistance calls that Americans make each year.

A Gulf Coast task force appointed by President Obama recommended on Monday that a "significant portion" of the billions of dollars in fines that BP is expected to pay for last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill go to ecological restoration.

The most widespread human fingerprint is a slow drop in the pH of surface waters around the world as a portion of the billions of tons of carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere from fuel and forest burning each year is absorbed in water, where it forms carbonic acid.

Soon after the Battle of Kupres, a portion of the 9th Armoured Battalion was transferred to Glamoč to support the Bosnian Serb TO attack towards Livno there.

The results showed that 5′ portion of the 2nd exon of BmBlos2 was directly joined to 3′ portion of the 2nd exon of Bm702 in the deletion events; 5′ portion of the 2nd exon of Bm702 was directly joined to 3′ portion of the 2nd exon of BmBlos2 in duplication events; 5′ portion of the 2nd exon of BmBlos2 were joined to inverted 5′ portion of the 2nd exon of Bm702 in inversion events.

The ligase was inactivated by incubation of mixture at 65°C for 20 min. For the first vectorette PCR, we used a specific forward primer for amplification of the 3' portion of the 2nd MHC class IIB exon and a reverse primer for the 5' portion.

The partial DNA sequence of canine SUR1 obtained from these insulinomas is homologous to a region that spans exons 7 and 8 of human SUR1 which codes for the c-terminal end of the linker region between the 7th and 8th transmembrane regions as well as a portion of the 8th transmembrane domain of the SUR1 protein.

The reference line was positioned at the most distal portion of the 2nd metatarsal.