Sentence examples for roughly a billion from inspiring English sources

So VMware's decision to spend roughly a billion dollars on a young upstart on Monday took many by surprise.

There may now be more than 130m users worldwide, sending roughly a billion short messages a day.

The green revolution is estimated to have fed roughly a billion people who might otherwise have starved.

(According to a 2011 report from the Nikkei Advertising Research Institute, Japan's power utilities spend roughly a billion dollars a year on advertising).

The world spends roughly a billion dollars a year trying to contain the disease — mostly through insecticide-treated bed nets — and treating it at government-run clinics.

(An exabyte is roughly a billion times a billion bytes, or the equivalent of about 20 billion copies of The Economist).

Reiman said roughly a hundred million dollars.

In 2011, this amounted to roughly a hundred American dollars.

Roughly a million of the devices were sold last year.

Last winter, roughly a million more skiers visited Vail Valley.

"Ardi" was 4.4 million years old — roughly a million years older than Lucy.