Sentence examples for roughly one billion from inspiring English sources

A typical high-end Intel microprocessor is today based on roughly one billion transistors or more, each capable of switching on and off about 300 billion times a second and packed densely enough that two million transistors would fit comfortably in the period at the end of this sentence.

That compares with roughly one billion hours spent on similar paperwork in 1981, which in hindsight looks to have been a refreshingly uncomplicated time.

"We must find additional savings of roughly one billion euros by 2010 or 2011".

"Africa's population is likely to go from roughly one billion now to around four billion," he said.

Mr. Tajudin had pledged his stake in TRI to Malaysia's version of the Resolution Trust Corporation to secure roughly one billion ringgit in personal loans.

12. (SBU) Defense sales are growing quickly from roughly one billion USD in 2008, to over two billion so far this year.

"Half an hour later roughly one hundred Mashcos, including their recalcitrant chief, lay murdered, stretched out on the riverbank".

Terms for chemical compounds (roughly 84 million) or insect species (roughly one million)?

Perm, with a population of roughly one million, is one of Russia's largest cities.

Roughly one million New Yorkers still smoke, a drop of 300,000 in five years.

In New York City, roughly one million people are in the categories considered most vulnerable.