Synonym: 1000000000, 1000000000000, jillion, million, one million million, one thousand million, trillion, zillion. Similar words: million, fill in, brilliant, fulfilling, willingness, rehabilitation, portfolio, mobile. Meaning: ['bɪljən] n. 1. the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen 2. a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) 3. the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros. adj. 1. denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States 2. denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain.
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61. The Clinton administration last winter assembled the $50 billion emergency bailout package to ease a financial crisis in Mexico.
62. He certainly wasn't going to bid $18 billion for this company.
63. In 1999, dot-coms spent more than $1 billion on TV spots.
64. The bank advanced $1.2 billion to help the country with debt repayments.
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65. In China, the policy of one child per family was introduced to stabilize the country's population at 1.6 billion.
66. The trade deficit had widened from £26 billion to £30 billion.
67. In the last ten years Imperial Oil had ploughed a billion dollars into the Canadian economy.
68. City analysts forecast pre-tax profits of £40 billion this year.
69. He also undertook to earmark $ 235 billion in government expenditure on infrastructure projects within five years.
70. They have £50 billion worth of orders on the books.
71. The new proposals would absorb $80 billion of the federal budget.
72. He was stunned to discover cost overruns of at least $1 billion.
73. Modern cosmology believes the Universe to have come into existence about fifteen billion years ago.
74. Five billion dollars of this year's budget is already earmarked for hospital improvements.
75. The level of debt crested at a massive $290 billion in 1992.
76. If Casey is correct, the total cost of the cleanup would come to $110 billion.
77. The costs of cleaning up the bay are estimated, conservatively, at $1 billion.
78. Don't quote me on this but I think the figure is in excess of £2 billion.
79. The Post Office handles nearly 2 billion letters and parcels over the Christmas period.
80. They approved a $1.1 billion package of pay increases for the veterans of the Persian Gulf War.
81. They proved up 22 billion tons of oil in reserves in this country.
82. The advertising agency rang up 1.4 billion dollars in yearly sales.
83. It may cost several billion roubles to make good the damage.
84. Britons fork out more than a billion pounds a year on toys.
85. Almost a quarter of the country's export earnings go to service a foreign debt of $29 billion.
86. The 1985 federal budget allocated $7.3 billion for development programmes.
87. By the close of this century another two billion people will have been born.
88. Lending by banks and building societies rose to £4.9 billion last year.
89. The fund will make payments of just over £1 billion next year.
90. All meteorites are of the same age, somewhere in the vicinity of 4.5 billion years old.