And Hasbro made about, you know, a billion and a half dollars.

There are now seven billion people on the planet, compared to just three billion a half century ago.

The next quarter billion will be added in half that time.

Getting improved stoves to half the people affected would cost 2.3 billion.

BANGALORE Half of humanity 3.5 billion people live in urban areas today.

It has done so at a cost, however, as international reserves declined by 2.4 billion in 2000 and by 1.6 billion in the first half of 2001.

Half of the increase, or 25 billion per year, would go to Africa.

So life appeared on Earth within half a billion years of it being possible, which is short compared to the 10 billion year lifetime of a planet of Earth type.

In effect, the G 8 fulfilled only half of its promise to Africa roughly 15 billion in increased aid rather than 30 billion.

It has used considerable resources, backing its efforts with more than one and a half billion Swiss francs since 1995.

Over half a billion people live without modern forms of energy, and the continent s share of global trade remains a paltry 3 .

Now, this is just a single switch and you need half a billion for a computer, so we have a long way to go.

Consider Renesas Electronics, a medium size company, with 150 billion ( 1.9 billion) in annual sales, which accounts for more than half of worldwide production of essential micro computing components for automobiles.

More than a half of Russia s goods are sold in Europe, and two of its top three trade partners are European Germany, with turnover of 31.9 billion, and the Netherlands, 28.3 billion.

Nonetheless, 2.6 billion people over half of the developing world's population do not have improved sanitation facilities, and 1.1 billion are still using water from unimproved sources.

The total stock of FDI of developing countries rose from 129 billion in 1990 to 859 billion in 2003, with nearly half of it South South.8

The half billion people who depend on a healthy fishing industry, and the one billion who rely on fish as a primary source of protein, cannot wait another 20 years for the international community to act.

Consider the trauma a country like India might have suffered if its population of a half billion had remained barely fed as it doubled.

In 2003, they had 635 billion invested in foreign countries, more than half in other developing countries.

Indeed, nearly a half billion Chinese lack access to clean drinking water, and the number of terminally polluted rivers and lakes grows daily.

Half of each year's 100 billion points of thermal plastic pellets will be made into fast track trash.

At least half the 800 billion US currency supply is held abroad, mainly in the world s underground economy.

To date, we have pledged 4.5 billion more than half of all the money pledged to the Fund.

Pirate fishing often called illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing deprives an estimated half billion law abiding fishermen and their communities of up to 23 billion worth of seafood annually.

So the three and a half billion people that suffer every year as a result, and the two million kids that die every year, will live.

There are serious plans to turn the Sahara desert s heat and sunlight into Europe s major power source, supplying energy to half a billion people.

Mushrooms, such as Shiitake mushrooms, make up half of the forest industry, with an output of approximately 5.6 billion yen.

Low income countries received nearly half of the 41 billion increase in remittances to developing countries from 2001 to 2004.

Outsourcing is touted as a sunshine industry in the Philippines. It employs more than half a million young workers and contributes about 13 billion to the local economy.

In other words, if you put onto the roads, as is currently happening, 1,000 new cars every day statistically, it's the biggest booming auto market in the world and the half a billion bicycles serving one and a third billion people are reducing.

American banks have incurred more than half of these massive penalties. The European bill amounts to just over 100 billion roughly half of which was paid by the top seven British banks.

The US will devote approximately 500 billion, or 5 of GNP, to military spending this year half of the world s total.

For example, the United States is projected to provide 3.2 billion, or more than half of total donor contributions, in 2005.

Africa, with its population of one billion, is also gaining economic momentum, contributing further to the rapid expansion of the global middle class, which is expected to surge from 1.8 billion in 2010 to 3.2 billion in 2020 and to 4.9 billion people more than half of the world s population in 2030.

When he, 40 years from now, is the age of Nancy Brown, there are going to be another two and a half billion people on the planet.

With the world s human population set to rise from six billion to nine billion people in the next half century, we need to improve management of our atmosphere, air, lands, soils, and oceans anyway.

But the Swiss reported losses of 14 billion francs in the first half of 2010, without succeeding in stemming exchange rate appreciation.

SINGAPORE There are close to 1.5 billion people in the world without access to electricity, more than half in the Asia Pacific region.

NEW YORK More than half of Asia s population 1.8 billion people live on less than 2 a day more than 600 million of them try to survive on less than 1 a day.

More than 40 of its population lives on less than a dollar a day. Over half a billion people live without modern forms of energy, and the continent s share of global trade remains a paltry 3 .

This year s record harvest of 6,100 tons of opium will generate more than 3 billion in illicit revenue equivalent to almost half of Afghanistan s GDP.

The Congo River alone holds more than 600 billion kilowatt hours of annual reserves. The Sanaga (Cameroon) and the Ogooué (Gabon) hold half as much.

Covering this drop in reserves more than half of gas reserves and a fifth of oil reserves have been consumed with imports implies an annual cost of more than 300 billion.

Using the Danish figures to calculate EU wide costs, the total is likely to be more than 150 billion annually, with every euro doing just half a cent worth of good.

According to Donald Cozzens, by the end of the mid 1990s, it was estimated that ... more than half a billion dollars had been paid in jury awards, settlements and legal fees.