Below you will find example sentences with "billion dollars". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Billion Dollars in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: dollars
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.2 words

Words in this phrase

billion dollars

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • billion can mean: Either of two large amounts: Common word
  • dollars can mean: plural of dollar Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

1 8 billion dollars including half 1× 2 7 billion dollars 2 2 1× 3 5 billion dollars 3 7 1× 3 7 billion dollars out of 1× 5 6 billion dollars of contracts 1× 9 8 billion dollars in debt 1× around 160 billion dollars 134 billion 1× as 9 billion dollars 7 1 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

at peak haiti 1× emirates for instance 1× eric newcomer that 1× fifty billion dollars 1× fossil free london 1× fox also faces 1×

Common sentence endings:

1 6 billion 1× 10 year bond 1× 2 2 billion 1× a billion dollars 1× after the merger 1× air transport association 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

year 5× last 3× debt 3× company 3× companies 3× haiti 2× estimated 2× bank 2× joint 2× fossil 2× despite 2× spend 2×

Related phrases

thousand dollars estimated billion roughly billion approximately billion billion pounds canadian dollars billion acquisition billion annually invested billion billion worldwide

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around dollars:

thousand dollars 16× canadian dollars 8×

Just before it in the phrase index:

billion annually billion acquisition billie jean billboard chart bill murray bill gates

Just after it in the phrase index:

billion pounds billion worldwide billionaire investor billy graham bing chat binge drinking

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

billion pounds billion acquisition billion annually billion worldwide

Same ending:

thousand dollars canadian dollars

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "billion dollars" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 1 8 billion dollars including half, 2 7 billion dollars 2 2, year, last and debt stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with thousand dollars, estimated billion, roughly billion, thousand dollars and canadian dollars, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with billion dollars

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Fifty billion dollars will go to airlines, and $8 billion will go to cargo air carries. (16 words)

Its valuation has also fallen dramatically from $47 billion dollars to as low as $10 billion. (16 words)

One billion dollars is still a lot of money, but it is arguably a significantly smaller sum than $1.6 billion. (21 words)

Longer example sentences

The agency said the fighting has damaged 341 cultural sites across Ukraine at a cost of 3.5 billion dollars (£3.7 billion) including in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and the cities of Lviv in the west and Odesa in the south. (42 words)

They differ in size; Willow is about four times as big in reserves, with about 600 million recoverable barrels estimated, and ConocoPhillips plans to spend several billion dollars on Willow, much more than the $1.5 billion planned by BP. (40 words)

Fossil Free London campaigner Henry, who declined to give his last name, said: “Since the Paris climate agreement they have been the worst financiers of fossil fuels, having provided 434 billion dollars (£357 billion) in finances. (36 words)

Example sentences (20)

Emirates, for instance, used over 5.7 tons of jet fuel last year alone, costing it 3.7 billion dollars out of its 17 billion dollars in annual expenses.

At peak, Haiti's total external debt was estimated at 1.8 billion dollars, including half a billion dollars to the Inter-American Development Bank, Haiti's largest creditor.

Eric Newcomer that the company is now raising 6 BILLION DOLLARS instead of the $2 billion to $3 billion it was believed to be trying to secure, according to previous reports.

She said 5.6 billion dollars of contracts went to foreign companies, eight billion to joint companies and 1.5 billion was given to local companies.

Even if the state exhausts these dollars, which would leave us unprepared for the upcoming hurricane season, the state budget shortfall could still reach more than a billion dollars.

Fossil Free London campaigner Henry, who declined to give his last name, said: “Since the Paris climate agreement they have been the worst financiers of fossil fuels, having provided 434 billion dollars (£357 billion) in finances.

Fox also faces an unresolved lawsuit from fellow voting machine firm Smartmatic, which is seeking around 2.7 billion dollars (£2.2 billion).

Net debt was pretty stable at $12.1 billion despite nearly a billion dollars spent on share buybacks so far this year, a very-telling story despite the pending lawsuits.

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One billion dollars is still a lot of money, but it is arguably a significantly smaller sum than $1.6 billion.

State premier Daniel Andrews said he was not prepared to spend up to seven billion dollars (£3.6 billion) on the event.

They differ in size; Willow is about four times as big in reserves, with about 600 million recoverable barrels estimated, and ConocoPhillips plans to spend several billion dollars on Willow, much more than the $1.5 billion planned by BP.

Together with US giants Chevron and ExxonMobil, some of the biggest oil majors have announced joint earnings of around 160 billion dollars (£134 billion).

Mrs Potanina’s lawyers said in 2019 that the size of her claim over the company’s shares could be as much as 9 billion dollars (£7.1 billion), her ex-husband’s legal team said.

The agency said the fighting has damaged 341 cultural sites across Ukraine at a cost of 3.5 billion dollars (£3.7 billion) including in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and the cities of Lviv in the west and Odesa in the south.

The company said in July that it had roughly $9.8 billion dollars in debt, down only slightly from roughly $9.9 billion shortly after the merger.

The measures, if they are ordered, threaten to upend a business expected to generate more than 300 billion dollars (£236 billion) in revenue this year.

Fifty billion dollars will go to airlines, and $8 billion will go to cargo air carries.

In the Middle East, airlines have lost more than seven billion dollars (about €6.5 billion) in revenue as of 11 March, according to the International Air Transport Association.

Its valuation has also fallen dramatically from $47 billion dollars to as low as $10 billion.

Last year, the bank’s Global Benchmark programme successfully launched two large global benchmark issuances in the dollar market of two billion dollars each and a 1.25 billion euro 10-year bond.

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