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Billions | Billion

Billions meaning

plural of billion

Using Billions

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of billion
  • In the example corpus, billions often appears in combinations such as: billions of, of billions, billions in.

Context around Billions

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 14 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Billions

  • In this selection, "billions" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, upon, causes, stole and upon stand out and add context to how "billions" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include billions and billions of dollars and a few billions from elsewhere. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "billions" sits close to words such as evolved, fi and sole, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with billions

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

It’s billions and billions of dollars. (7 words)

There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here. (10 words)

All of it, billions and billions of ringgit which they made. (11 words)

In a universe containing hundreds of billions of galaxies, most of which had active nuclei billions of years ago but only seen today, it is statistically certain that thousands of energy jets should be pointed toward us, some more directly than others. (42 words)

As a humorous tribute to Sagan and his association with the catchphrase "billions and billions", a mainsagan has been defined as a unit of measurement equivalent to a very large number of anything. citation Jargon File 4.2.0. (39 words)

The internet is a cornucopia of personal and financial data of billions of people (including you), so it’s no surprise that cybercrime causes billions of dollars’ worth of financial damage to businesses and individuals each year. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

And the companies that caused the harm are sitting on billions upon billions of dollars just waiting to be looted.

He said Delhi is extremely safe nowadays where billions and billions of dollars are being poured in.

The internet is a cornucopia of personal and financial data of billions of people (including you), so it’s no surprise that cybercrime causes billions of dollars’ worth of financial damage to businesses and individuals each year.

These thugs stole billions and billions to own palaces in UK, France and Spain.

And these companies are making millions or billions and billions of pounds, yet they're clearly not policing their platforms well enough.

Beijing plans to spend tens of billions of yuan (billions of dollars) on the program and on beefing up recycling programs to handle the program intended to generate demand for a wide array of products and materials.

China in particular has shown strong support, loaning the government billions of dollars and investing billions more in the Venezuelan oil and gas industry.

Mongolia and Uzbekistan are also implementing similar inter-modal transport corridors, unlocking billions of dollars in transport savings and billions more in new economic opportunities.

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Their ads never mention that they are lobbying the governments(ie our tax dollars!) to have billions and billions in subsidies and tax breaks.

There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here.

Google and fellow online ad giant Facebook Inc. have become some of the most-valuable companies in history by collecting billions of data points on billions of people and selling targeted access to advertisers.

I know Lindsey Graham had a bill where basically we would have been paid back for all of the billions of dollars that we've spent — many, many billions of dollars.

It’s billions and billions of dollars.

There are real solutions, hard solutions, to balancing effective border security and our collective humanity, but let’s build a thousand-mile wall through the desert for billions and billions of dollars instead.

All of it, billions and billions of ringgit which they made.

It is inexcusable that this government’s mismanagement has taken us from billions of private sector investment in Canada to billions of taxpayer dollars being on the line.

As a humorous tribute to Sagan and his association with the catchphrase "billions and billions", a mainsagan has been defined as a unit of measurement equivalent to a very large number of anything. citation Jargon File 4.2.0.

From the smallest scale of biology, the combined effect of billions upon billions of ecological processes amplify and ultimately regulate the biogeochemical cycles of the Earth.

In a universe containing hundreds of billions of galaxies, most of which had active nuclei billions of years ago but only seen today, it is statistically certain that thousands of energy jets should be pointed toward us, some more directly than others.

Saddam borrowed tens of billions of dollars from other Arab states and a few billions from elsewhere during the 1980s to fight Iran, mainly to prevent the expansion of Shiite radicalism.

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Common combinations with billions

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "billions" in a sentence?
An example: "And the companies that caused the harm are sitting on billions upon billions of dollars just waiting to be looted." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "billions" from authentic English texts.
What does "billions" mean?
Billions means: plural of billion
How many example sentences with "billions" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "billions", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.