Industry watchers reckon that the total amount of money involved could be in the billions. |
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An example would be an investment house with assets in the billions, but with only a few dozen staff. |
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Meanwhile, Ryanair is due to take delivery of dozens of new aircraft at a cost of billions. |
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If they were applied throughout the UK public sector, he adds, the savings would amount to billions. |
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Heaping billions on the rich while ensuring that one out of six American kids doesn't get a penny is dead wrong. |
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The US and Russia spent billions on a dozen or so robotic craft meant to land on the planet and radio back their findings. |
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Despite all of the billions slathered on the program, the aircraft's design may be fatally flawed. |
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So it's given biodefence a greater priority, spending billions more dollars a year. |
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Compared with the billions squandered on a vague mission in Iraq, a mission to Mars seems cheap. |
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The amount is a joke compared to the trillions lost by investors and the billions in fees that the brokerages earned. |
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During a nuclear chain reaction, many billions of uranium nuclei may fission in less than a second. |
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Today billions of dollars are spent in pesticides, fungicides and herbicides. |
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It must be in that order of magnitude because think of the billions of dollars that have been sent that way, billions. |
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Caffeine, the drug found in tea, coffee, colas and chocolate, is how billions of people perk up when modern life doesn't allow for a catnap. |
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But making billions while your shareholders lose their shirts, and your workers lose their jobs, sticks in our craw. |
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The cost for a single B2 stealth bomber is in the range of billions of dollars. |
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The company confronting a blazing oil well leaking billions of dollars of black gold had it easy by comparison. |
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The government has fined the bank billions of dollars for not reporting suspicious activity, including money laundering. |
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Keeping drugs illegal not only costs billions in enforcement, but loses billions in tax revenue by keeping the drug trade a black-market affair. |
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The loss occasioned by cancellation of hotel bookings and other expenses runs into the billions of shillings. |
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This apparently will lead to billions of petro dollars being spent on monorails, overpasses and new highways. |
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It shed billions as banks and energy stocks in particular took a hammering, as nervous investors fled to safer environs. |
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Trade too between the two countries is worth many billions of dollars a year. |
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What is going on in Vienna is flatly felonious behavior that is lifting billions of dollars from the pockets of American citizens. |
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The politicians used the trust's billions to bestow favors on corporations whose share prices needed a lift or to bolster a sagging stock market. |
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The scandal was a contributing factor to a slide in world equity markets, knocking billions off stock values. |
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The British public is tired of billions of pounds of taxpayers' money being squandered on schemes that are scrapped after only a few years. |
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The Government's removal of tax relief on dividend payments has cost the pensions industry billions of pounds. |
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It attracts someone's attention, they buy you out and spend billions in development. |
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Throw in sports bars, beach clubs, and so forth, and you start to see why industry sales run in the tens of billions annually. |
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Ambitious plans to invest billions of pounds in South Yorkshire could fail at the first hurdle unless muddled rail networks are sorted out first. |
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The Guggenheim family would not have poured billions of dollars into their museum if all they get are unconstructive complaints and criticisms. |
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Companies consistently undercharge for products despite spending millions or even billions of dollars to develop or acquire them. |
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However, the younger generations in the Church have grown up with the belief in billions of years and a non-literal approach to Genesis. |
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He is, of course, well prepared, bunkered down in the Treasury with all his billions. |
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Early diagnosis and treatment of mental health problems will ultimately save South Africa billions of rands. |
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They invariably talk about a particular vertical market that has X billions of dollars in sales each year. |
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He took a sleekit decision, in secret, to raid pension funds, costing millions of Scots billions of pounds. |
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There are many beautiful shots of a night sky with billions of brilliant stars sparkling. |
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Many people are disappointed that the US is intent on spending billions of dollars on manned space flights. |
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People want convenience in a bag and the industry wants the flow of billions to continue uninterrupted. |
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Over the last decade the economic boom has resulted in billions of euro being invested in property, both at home and abroad. |
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Ever since, billions of dollars and hours have been expended looking for nail scissors. |
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The half-life of an isotope can vary in length from nanoseconds to millions or billions of years. |
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Federalists prefer to spend billions on red flags, while sovereigntists prefer efficient grammar. |
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All the neo-catastrophists were evolutionists and believed in the billions of years of earth history. |
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Instead, they all toppled over the side of the counter, smashing into billions of pieces onto the floor. |
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Stine slammed an already small piece of tile quite harshly onto the board causing it to smash into billions of pieces. |
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What the billions of people who live in the world's poorer countries need is rapid economic growth. |
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At the top are several large companies with market valuations of billions of dollars. |
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And it spends billions each year in social welfare programs that are endlessly duplicative and of dubious value. |
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These guys took part in a breathtakingly broad scheme to skim billions of dollars from the coffers of cities and towns across America. |
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The billions of years believed necessary for the earth to evolve from some nebulous mass simply evaporate when confronted by such evidence. |
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Any negative matter on the earth would have fallen up billions of years ago, making the earth devoid of any negative matter. |
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We're tying up billions of dollars in an unwinnable, perpetual war on an enemy that we can't even locate. |
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They make hundreds of billions of dollars every year, more than enough money to pay for the costs. |
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The cosmic microwave background radiation contains billions of photons for every baryon. |
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Even when their produce is earning the country billions of dollars, their lives are enmeshed in poverty, illiteracy, and misery. |
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The biotech companies devote billions of dollars to global greenwashing each year. |
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It consists of billions of Argentine ants living in millions of nests that cooperate with each other. |
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With billions of dollars in foreign aid at stake, the United Nations, sponsors of the talks, were pushing hard for a conclusion yesterday. |
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Stock markets dropped to their lowest levels for five years, wiping billions off Britain's pensions. |
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Money could reach into the billions, given the oversized options, bonuses, and golden parachutes granted in recent years. |
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The impact of the global downturn in the construction sector has wiped billions off the value of stocks in the sector. |
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Nevertheless, thousands of lives and billions of dollars have been spent deposing a defanged dictatorship that posed no immediate threat to us. |
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As a convenience food for human beings, however, with slick marketing and the halo of a health food, soy is worth billions. |
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Fighting back tears, he recalled human things hidden behind billions of dollars in technical wizardry. |
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At the time of her arrest, she formed part of a corporate finance team handling billions of pounds' worth of deals. |
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The new findings promise a better understanding of how galaxies and globular clusters first formed billions of years ago. |
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Various stabs have been made at how many extra billions of UK health spending will be needed to redeem the Prime Minister's new promise. |
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After having cooled off for many billions of years, the temperature of this radiation is just a few degrees above absolute zero. |
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I am about to try and persuade mum to take me to Sainsburys to change up all my billions of coppers for actual usable cash. |
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Regimes may change, borders may be redrawn, billions of euros and dollars may be spent but in the end nothing really changes. |
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Australia is battling its biggest plague of locusts in decades as billions of the insects hatch along the central east region. |
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Governments have saved billions by refinancing the national debt at lower interest rates. |
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Faith of course can can be a powerful force for good and is undoubtedly fills a spiritual need for billions in the world today. |
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Oh well, just because a problem is insolvable doesn't mean the federal government can't throw hundreds of billions of dollars at it. |
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Investments in the billions have stabilised entire cities and regions, which seemed to be hopelessly doomed to decline. |
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Never mind the billions of innocent civilians there, or the brave warriors fighting to defend them. |
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They live in destitution while the land yields billions of dollars annually to the people who took it away. |
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Government and other institutions that owe billions of Kwacha in unpaid rate charges should work out programmes to remit the outstanding monies. |
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His firm has amassed its billions mainly from large institutional clients and pension funds. |
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There are literally billions of titles that rely on the draw of a pint-sized actor or actress to sell copies. |
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Can no longer function except to distribute billions of taxpayer largesse to politically connected corporations? |
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Leaders are investing billions of dollars to make our schools more purposeful, more accountable, and more productive of powerful learning. |
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But now, we have moved from producing billions of pictures to zillions of pictures. |
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If those billions of borrowed euro were diverted into productive rather than unproductive capacity what would happen? |
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What is fast becoming the biggest prod to change is the faceless mass of investors pumping billions of dollars into companies. |
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And Hewitt has not relented on diverting billions of pounds from NHS trusts to private treatment centres. |
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Though no one has put an official price tag on the project, it could potentially cost billions. |
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The cumulative effect, over billions of years, is to change the elemental composition of the universe. |
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Over 65 million people can now hardly feed themselves, while the government spends billions on arms. |
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Well, yes, it would take those impossible billions if we set out merely to duplicate the media Goliaths. |
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Galaxies are composed of billions to trillions of stars, as well as gas, dust, and dark matter, all bound together by gravity. |
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Besides, billions of dollars already pay for infrastructure through bonds, direct appropriations and federal funding. |
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Baker has spent billions on military satellites and rocketry, but he wouldn't let us send any supplies to the colonists on Mars. |
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Massive arcologies looming in the distance, like small mountains covered in billions of tiny lights. |
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It is difficult to calculate how many billions of dollars the government spends on indefensible, if not illegal, self-promotion. |
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Sharp questions about precise value for money, given all the additional billions, were also hard to answer. |
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Historically, war locks nations into an economy where preparation and fighting consumes billions of dollars. |
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They put aside billions to make sure that they're going to be protected against lawsuits that are coming down the pike. |
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Even divvying up Bill Gates' billions would amount to only a couple of hundred dollars each. |
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There are a hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone, and there are billions of other galaxies. |
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The corporate settlements run into the hundreds of millions, even reaching low billions. |
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So billions of dollars are wasted with no assurance that any terrorist will be caught. |
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We realized that our Galaxy was just one of many billions of galaxies in the universe. |
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Supermassive black holes are found in the centers of galaxies that contain billions of stars. |
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But the life span of Gaia has to be measured in hundreds of millions, even in billions, of years. |
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They prefer to squander tens of billions a year clinging to the fantasy of a drug-free world. |
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Whole galaxies, made up of hundreds of billions of stars, can produce greater effects though. |
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Where else could you end up sitting next to a foreign minister or a corporate chairman worth billions? |
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Investment banks estimate the country's rampant tax evasion totals in the billions of dollars per year. |
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Despite all these many billions spent on health and 5 years of private cover, I've picked up a bit of sniffle. |
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Kodak decided to invest dozens of billions of US dollars globally last year to expand its business. |
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There can be few other industries in the land whose billions are so dependent on the say-so of such an esoteric and anonymous few. |
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Even companies which a few years ago were sitting on treasure chests of spare cash are now down to their last few billions. |
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The cost in property loss and damage runs into billions, but the cost in human life is incalculable. |
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The seeming incalculability of millions of stolen lives and billions of unpaid hours of labor must not preclude justice from achieving fruition. |
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With the collisional history of Mars, you're dealing with a history of billions of years. |
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But it would be impolitic to blame the government which, the Post reminds us, has spent billions of dollars on urban renewal. |
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In the billions of years since, they have cooled to less than three degrees Kelvin above absolute zero, equivalent to microwave frequencies. |
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Collect enough nickels and dimes and quarters and dollars, and you can make billions. |
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Gravity working over billions of years would have magnified these perturbations into the universe we observe today. |
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There were flies by the billions, dirt and refuse everywhere, and scraggy dogs searching in the stalls for food. |
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Plans to scrap laws which allow parents and patients to sue for billions of pounds worth of compensation were being unveiled by the Tories today. |
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We are told that the earth formed by accretion of cosmic dust billions of years ago. |
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Those are people who inherited large sums of money, won the lottery, or sold their Internet businesses for billions of dollars. |
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They had a president who was willing to spend billions of lire on winning the scudetto. |
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The US treasury, given Congressional blessing, simply gave the banksters hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars with no questions asked. |
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These cost estimates vary extensively, ranging from millions to billions of dollars annually. |
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With billions more having been raised this year by UK buyout funds alone, the deals are likely to keep coming thick and fast. |
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It provided billions in aid, free military hardware, latest intelligence support and some of the best mates' rates in international politics. |
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Despite the billions he pocketed from running his hedge fund, he maintains greater interest in philosophy than matters material. |
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Chronic diseases account for billions of dollars in annual medical expenditures. |
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It would also provide billions of pounds for our penny-pinching Chancellor. |
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All natural rocks contain small amounts of uranium and thorium, which are radioactive and remain so for billions of years. |
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Meatpackers contend they have lost billions of dollars because of the lack of cattle to keep plants running efficiently. |
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Drugs worth billions of rands were seized by the police last year, the department of detective services said yesterday. |
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Cannily, you have navigated your way through billions of pages, and you have found me. |
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And so you may be thrown back on a so-called deist God, a God who simply started the ball rolling billions of years ago. |
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Many intelligent design advocates accept evolution and also an Earth billions of years old, not thousands. |
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For the past 10 years, Shanghai officials have spent billions on what rightly is a contender for the first mega-city of the new millenium. |
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In the dark ocean depths, kilometers beneath the waves, scalding water spews from hydrothermal vents as it has for billions of years. |
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Sceptics may think it simply seals billions into tyrants' Swiss bank accounts. |
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These insect swarms cause massive crop losses across the southern and central United States, costing billions of dollars annually. |
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There are more bulldozers by the wayside than trees, rivers are replaced with billions of miles of ribbon like roads and trash is everywhere. |
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Over the years since then, we have spent billions mapping, measuring and surveying Antarctica from land, sea and space. |
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Meteorites contain platinum and meteorites have been landing on earth for billions of years already. |
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And because our treasury is being drained of hundreds of billions of dollars desperately needed at home. |
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Cabinet advice, says Hide, showed the public had been hoodwinked into investing in a project that made billions for a Hollywood studio. |
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If you can move your mortgage without severe penalties, get looking for a better home loan today and claim your share of our wasted billions! |
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There are billions of people who are more than willing to do their part to propagate the human race. |
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We begin to collect these billions of microbiota the moment we begin to pass down our mother's birth canal. |
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Nanowires fashioned into billions of transistors on a microchip could someday drive tiny, ultra-fast computers. |
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It has debts totalling hundreds of billions of dollars and there has been no investment in its infrastructure for more than 20 years. |
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They have plowed billions into the project and are keen to ensure it doesn't turn into a costly flightless bird. |
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The sharing economy is already worth billions of dollars, but its direct beneficiaries aren't mainstream entertainment companies. |
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The report wrongly gave earnings and revenue numbers in billions rather than millions. |
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As you know, part of the tens of billions of dollars that he is asking for today is to pull his chestnuts out of the fire. |
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How can you anyone think, with all the countless billions of suns in the universe, that we could be alone? |
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The government, wary of being so outspoken, is nevertheless hurling brains and billions at the problem. |
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Ares Vallis is one of several big outflow channels on Mars in this region that formed billions of years ago. |
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A vegetarian diet would drastically reduce the amount of crop land needed to feed billions. |
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Only one surviving bacterium or virus could multiply into billions in no time. |
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That's a lot of money, but if this turns out to be multiple billions of revenue, you'd get that back in a hurry. |
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We can expect Corporate welfare amounting to tens of billions in the next three years, as with the past term. |
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The company still faces a dozen cases that could cost it billions more to resolve. |
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Throughout that month, the Bank of England spent billions ensuring the pound stayed within its ERM band. |
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That leaves homeowners to cover what could amount to billions in repair costs over the next years. |
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Former braceros are suing the Mexican Government for billions of dollars. |
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The outcome of the rum feud is critical for both Bacardi and Pernod Ricard, because the winner could net billions in future sales. |
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Studios such as Disney and Paramount are apoplectic about the billions of dollars in revenue being lost to rampant online piracy. |
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The billions of snippets of sadness and bewilderment spinning across the Net confirm who this amazing boy was to all of us. |
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It is a cash cow, handed billions by TV networks and rewarding its sponsors with huge ratings and ever growing revenues. |
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Sending out billions of cds to get people online, these marketers were selling connectivity to the Web, not an editorial product. |
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America has spent tens of billions of dollars in a basically futile effort to coax Islamabad into clamping down on the Taliban. |
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The systemic challenges facing billions of women in the developing world defy easy, clickable solutions. |
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Literally hundreds of billions of cups of joe are consumed annually. |
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They range from the very short term, like the life cycle of a June bug, which lives only a few days, to the life cycle of a planet, which takes billions of years. |
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In the not too distant future, these young people will control billions of dollars. |
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Big banks have copped to heinous crimes that have cost citizens billions of dollars. |
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The claims I see in the newspapers state we must spend billions of ratepayer, and possibly taxpayer, dollars to bring the utilities' infrastructure into the 21st century. |
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Radioactive dating does show that the Earth is billions and not thousands of years old, refuting young-Earth creationism. |
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Yes we can talk about the billions of trees planted annually around the world, and yes we can talk about how growth exceeds harvest by a wide margin. |
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Fluffy new snow is also filled with billions of air pockets. |
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Five profit warnings have wiped billions off the market value of Morrison. |
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Since our launch in November 1999, billions of pounds have been wiped off the value of our competitors, and many established names in telecoms have collapsed. |
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But how many billions in foreign aid have been wasted over the decades due to the grandiose projects and corruption of dictatorships and kleptocracies? |
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But talk of millions and billions is deflating to voters who gave small amounts to their favorite candidates. |
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In a London courtroom, Russian strongmen Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky are duking it out over billions. |
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The Coma Cluster, like the Local Group, is the end product of billions of years of cosmic evolution. |
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Since then, the brand has grown and his eponymous sneaker line has generated billions in revenue for Nike. |
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He used the power of the Antichrist to open Hell's gates, releasing billions of demons onto the Earth, killing most of and enslaving all of the human race. |
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Overhead, uncounted billions of stars, planets, and satellites swirl, creating a heavenly light show that changes every night, and it's one the entire family can share. |
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But we financed civil wars and counterinsurgencies in these countries to the tune of many billions of dollars. |
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Former Communist Party apparatchiks wound up in control of most state assets while billions haemorrhaged out of the country into numbered Swiss bank accounts. |
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Last year was a disaster as the industrial units suffered losses of billions of rupees due to an eight-hour daily load-shedding and low voltage problem. |
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But for the integrity and the respect of the innocent billions, earning their daily bread under the confines of economic stagnation, that deserve a shelter of peace. |
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Few companies would willingly gamble billions on a long shot. |
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More than 50,000 Mum and Dad investors claimed billions in tax deductions through the '90s for investing in things like macadamias, tea-trees and wine. |
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Britain does not want to see the City of London hemorrhage hundreds of billions of pounds if Russian investors pull out. |
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The U.S. and Russia are sinking billions into nuclear-capable bombers, missiles, and submarines. |
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Spam is up fivefold over the past 18 months, leaving the electronic mailboxes of Internet users jammed with billions of unwanted commercial e-mails. |
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The oil companies contend there may be too little gas under some of the tracts to justify the billions of dollars worth of installations that the Saudis want. |
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Its banks had borrowed billions of dollars at low rates, converted them to lira, and plowed the money into high-yielding Turkish government T-bills. |
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The diet industry is, after all, worth many billions of pounds every year and I wouldn't say no to a slice of that, for want of a better word, pie. |
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For ten years, the social network limited billions of people identifying as either male or female. |
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The nation's doctors and hospitals should be able to trim scores of billions per year by avoiding health-care costs that occur when drugs are used incorrectly. |
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Whether it's millions, billions, trillions or bajillions, the dollar figures are so obscenely high that they no longer have any real understandable value. |
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We were screeching through space, and I saw billions of blazing stars. |
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His aspect was as insubstantial as fog, dreams, or an expelled breath, and in this he resembled billions of human beings. |
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The investment bank had a lousy third quarter, but employees will still take home billions in bonuses. |
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Sure, we spend billions each year on college sports but we are willing to give all that up for an academic meritocracy based upon infallible test scores. |
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While individual Americans struggle every year with tax compliance, large companies spend billions on tax avoidance. |
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The Moon's regolith was created by the ceaseless bombardment of micrometeorites, cosmic rays and particles of solar wind breaking down rocks for billions of years. |
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In an age in which billions would starve if not for the use of artificial fertilizers in agriculture, they blather on about small-scale organic farming. |
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Rodents cost billions of dollars in lost crops each year, and some are carriers of human diseases such as bubonic plague, typhus, and Hanta fever. |
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Yet NCAA members are getting billions from TV, and hundreds of millions alone from the Final Four weekend. |
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The millions turned to billions as the technology firm became a member of the prestigious FTSE 100, the ultimate accolade in the business community. |
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Shares in big, blue-chip companies are easy to buy and sell because there are billions of shares in circulation, plus a lively market of buyers and sellers. |
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Comsic rays are very high energy particles which strike the Earth's atmosphere and produce spectacular showers of billions of electrons, muons, and other particles. |
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Okay, that's small change compared with the billions involved in electronics exports, and a theme park doesn't exactly mesh with ambitions of a high-tech future. |
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The secretary of State has wrested control of USAID and influence over billions in foreign assistance. |
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In Lucknow, the Shia auqaf properties are higher in number, their value running in billions of rupees, perhaps due to Lucknow's Shia nawabs ' munificence. |
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By contrast, dating methods that are alleged to measure geologic events of millions and billions of years clearly depend on unverified and unverifiable assumptions. |
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Will they be insisting on American peacekeeping forces, and billions of dollars in American aid? |
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Unfortunately, the billions of dollars in aid money that Kerry has promised to the PLO is not being used to create jobs. |
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If we are plowing hundreds of billions into college loans with low-to-no wage growth, this implies one of two things. |
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Humans have long dreamed of building spaceships, all the while riding on one that provides everyone with billions of free air miles every day of their lives. |
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It reduces th e number of vehicles on the road so eliminating any need to expend billions of the taxpayer's money on new motorways, road widening schemes and bypasses. |
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Contracts potentially worth billions of dollars are being placed in jeopardy, threatening the main source of revenue for the impoverished half-island. |
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In an age in which billions would starve if not for the use of artificial fertilizers in capital-intensive agriculture, the left blathers on about small-scale organic farming. |
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We spend billions each year in futile attempts to prevent floodplains from flooding, barrier islands from migrating, chaparral from burning, and predators from predation. |
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And with billions to spend, it gives them a certain swagger. |
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But cosmologists are so comfortable with millions and billions that none of them feel the urge to invent a unit much beyond the light-year or the parsec. |
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Housing associations that have taken on former council homes under the transfer scheme have raised billions of pounds of private money to repair these properties. |
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Every year, billions of these clamshells and other foodservice containers made from petroleum-based foams end up in already overstuffed landfills. |
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The Kuiper belt is a hypothetical massive flattened disc of billions of icy planetesimals supposedly left over from the formation of the solar system. |
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That encryption is vitally important is evidenced by the hundreds of millions spent on encryption technology and the billions spent on code-breaking. |
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Under most circumstances, the matter in stars is so highly electrically conductive that magnetic fields can survive for millions or billions of years. |
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Undoubtedly the fact that the institution of slavery froze billions of dollars of capital into human beings was of great importance in maintaining this way of life. |
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Nearly every CEO we have talked with all over the course of years have invested billions of dollars in China, talking about it as a consumption market. |
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We use a huge set of computers to crawl billions of pages on the web. |
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Who's responsible for paying back the billions and billions of funny money that the Government is spending, and the interest accrued on that funny money? |
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The economic collapse in this sprawling nation was caused by international bankers and speculators who shoved billions into high-risk, get-rich-quick schemes there. |
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If it did smash into the Earth the effect would be like detonating thousands of nuclear bombs, killing billions of people and wiping out an area the size of Europe. |
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I could feel the invisible billions at my elbow, also watching. |
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Under interrogation, he's not likely to rat on his fedayeen, lead us to his hidden billions abroad or tell the truth about dirty dealings with France and Russia. |
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This record has been obscured on the Earth by billions of years of rain, wind, erosion, volcanic eruptions, mountain building, and plate tectonics. |
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And with a dozen or so companies already exploring for uranium, worth potentially billions of dollars, he says the Territory's stance was nonsensical. |
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Billions of euros were wiped off the value of shares worldwide yesterday after the extent of losses at WorldCom sent markets into freefall. |
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Billions in profits are riding on the success or failure of such drugs, as are the hopes of millions of sufferers from various diseases. |
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What is the point of spending Billions of Euros on wiping out a disease and then making artificial copies of it? |
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Billions of rupiah have been spent to beautify the National Monument Park and improve sidewalks in the center of town. |
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Billions of people read magazines, listen to music, watch television, purchase movies on demand and use mobile devices. |
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Billions of virus-like packets of little news factoids fly around the net, and people intercept packets that meet criteria of interest. |
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The improved junction is said to facilitate billions of pounds of investment in the region, making journeys more reliable and improving safety. |
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A problem with the theory is that the astronomical cycles have been in existence for billions of years, but glaciation is a rare occurrence. |
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These screens are only partially effective and as a result billions of fish and other aquatic organisms are killed by power plants each year. |
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As the permafrost melts, it could release billions of tonnes of methane gas into the atmosphere. |
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With the billions of beefburgers and ready meals sold around the world, why are so many not getting top-quality beef and ingredients? |
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Today, in further signs of panic, they are announcing billions of pounds of unfunded and unbelievable promises. |
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Billions of dollars are at stake, and large political constituencies influence and are influenced by choices of indices such as a cost-of-living index. |
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The government is investing billions of euros in energy efficiency, sustainable energy and CO2 reduction. |
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Cities have lost billions of dollars in federal funds because of hipsters. |
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Since then, as the RTC sold billions of dollars in distressed portfolios, DIV has become a standard for distressed portfolio valuation. |
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The aggregate value of companies involved in offering onliner games to millions of players across the globe runs to tens of billions of pounds. |
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Moving billions of dollars is bound to leave some sort of paper trail. |
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A bond measure on November's ballot would bring billions to public schools, with a chunk earmarked for the state's community colleges. |
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And virtually every drugmaker has been hurt in the last few years by expirations of patents for popular drugs that once made billions every year. |
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Entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the first outside investor in Facebook and a founder of PayPal, has made billions with a similar philosophy. |
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Letting it cool off too much would have caused damages worth billions of forints. |
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Billions of tiny whiskers create a thin cushion of air above the cotton fabric, smoothing out wrinkles and allowing liquids to bead up and roll off without a trace. |
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Billions were spent on the ego trip to the moon and the Space Shuttle. |
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It has inherited a number of tasks after goof-ups at other agencies, including handling billions of federal dollars for disaster recovery. |
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This portrayal of the environment in which stromatolitic communities flourished billions of years ago is a classic one. |
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The world is beyond heliocentricism to billions of galaxies in an expanding universe that has no center. |
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I suspect that if everyone cut down on just one carrier bag a week, it would save billions over the course of a year. |
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And Washington surely won't pour the many billions of dollars into a post-communist Cuba that Bonn generously directed into East Germany. |
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The paternalists provide billions of dollars' worth of weapons and then millions of dollars' worth of sticking plasters. |
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Electrical current is composed of billions and billions of tiny particles called electrons. |
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There is no doubt that billions could be saved by slashing the number of deskbound brass hats and halting massive out-of-date arms contracts. |
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Today, seismologists say, death and injury would be widespread, and damages would be in the billions of dollars. |
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Over billions of years, enough of this material could accumulate in a main-sequence star to leave a core of strange matter when the star dies. |
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Geochemists and astrophysicists have determined that the universe is billions of years old. |
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Many companies actually are improving the lives of billions, net-net. |
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Billions of dollars have been provided in support of sector reforms and large undrawn balances remain available for utilization by the government. |
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A senior official of Pakistan Customs said that imports worth billions of dollars are made against payment sent aboard through Hawala and Hundi. |
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For cost estimators and analysts, the value of their portfolios can easily soar into billions of dollars. |
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It follows their record settlement with US regulators over accusations the bank allowed rogue states and drug cartels to launder billions. |
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The latter costs airlines around the world billions of dollars, Shafie says, and in order to offset the loss, airlines overbook. |
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Because somehow, a company that began with an ickle mouse continues to delight millions, nay billions. |
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Various corporations, some publicly held, others private, bid for these contracts, which are often worth many billions of dollars. |
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This is being developed for the billions of uninfected people. |
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A MORE dynamic approach to risk capital intervention by the Executive could generate billions for the economy, it was claimed yesterday. |
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They also feed on beetles, moths, leaf-hoppers and other insects that cost farmers and foresters billions of dollars every year. |
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Olympus Mons is a volcano 21kms high and 600km in diameter that has been formed over billions of years. |
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If we are to be drinking from a firehose, with billions of web pages at our fingertips, then we should possess the skills to manage its flow. |
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Although an alerted immune system kills billions of treponemes after syphilis infection, enough can survive to kick off primary syphilis. |
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Nobody in his right mind would spend billions on developing an antibullet gun to stop bullets in midair. |
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