0 often in the United Kingdom, the number 1,000,000,000,000; in the United States, and often in the United Kingdom, the number 1,000,000,000 -- bilion; miliarda
a billion
several billion.
1 often in the United Kingdom, the figure 1,000,000,000,000; in the United States, and often in the United Kingdom, the figure 1,000,000,000. -- bilion; miliarda
2 a billion pounds or dollars -- bilion; miliarda
The former directly accrued billions of petrodollars from external oil rent.
The regression equation relating the two measures is: number of cortical neurons (in billions) 5.583 0.006 (cm3 brain volume).
To use a simile, history is like a collection of billions of equations (causal chains) that are all dependent upon each other.
We have to establish the principal mechanism of cell's behaviour in permafrost conditions, that probably might work for billions of years.
First, transgenic crops have a high potential for social good - literally improving the lives of billions of people.
They include many beneficial and deleterious species, the latter associated with billions of dollars' worth of agricultural losses annually.
After four decades and tens of billions of dollars, pounds, yen, and roubles, this is an odd place to be.
If habitable planets exist in these systems, then their orbits should stay put for billions of years.
