A multiplier of two would generate 480 billion of extra spending, compared to a multiplier of one, which would generate just the initial 240 billion.

And so you can go in and have a billion different viruses that are all genetically identical, but they differ from each other based on their tips, on one sequence that codes for one protein.

Within a week of its attack on Georgia, Russia recorded a capital outflow of 16 billion, which has since increased to 30 billion.

Russia s foreign exchange reserves fell by 16 billion in one week, and Gazprom s value fell by the same amount in one day.

Foreign direct investment totaled 27.3 billion in 2008 2009, despite the global financial crisis, and reached 1 billion in just one week in May 2009.

With the help of import licensing, then Finance Minister Konan Bédié earned his first billion CFA francs within a year.

With global aid totaling roughly 130 billon, each of the 1.3 billion people living in extreme poverty (less than 1 per day) worldwide would receive 100 in cash.

Indeed, the prime minister s team won at least one major contract for the sale of military aircraft worth more than a billion dollars.

There are now more than 3.3 billion subscribers in the world, roughly one for every two people on the planet.

The way you measure nanotechnology is in nanometers, and one nanometer is a billionth of a meter, and to put some scale to that, if you had a nanoparticle that was one nanometer thick, and you put it side by side, and you had 50,000 of them, you'd be the width of a human hair.

Education Project 1998 2.16 billion 2001 6.63 billion.

Health and nutrition 1998 7.20 billion 2001 3.80 billion.

The US Federal Reserve increased its stock of base money in 2008 by 97 , the European Central Bank by 37 .

13.8 billion light years The age of the universe is estimated to be 13.8 billion years.

WASHINGTON, DC The world has made enormous progress in recent decades in the fight against poverty. But, as 2015 begins, one billion people one in seven still live on less than 1.25 a day.

When the 200 billion rescue of these firms was undertaken and their 6 trillion in liabilities taken over by the US government, the rally lasted one day.

At the US median hourly wage of 25, each mile costs 0.83. Given that Americans drive roughly three trillion miles annually, saving just one cent per mile implies 30 billion in annual savings.

China, with 1.3 billion people, is just one country and the European Union, with some 500 million people, functions as a single economic market, with most of its members sharing a single currency.

Indeed, the second ranked country in terms of total annual military spending, the United Kingdom, lags far behind, at 55 billion, followed by France ( 45 billion), Japan ( 41 billion), and Germany ( 35 billion).

One billion people speak English.

In 2009, the annual healthcare related expenditures reached 20.6 billion kuna (2.75 billion euro).

Asia is the major beneficiary, receiving 113 billion.

In 2011, Chinese companies spent 8 billion ( 1.3 billion) on industrial robots.

For example, it has been estimated that if we were to use sections of about 35 square micrometers (millionths of a meter) at a thickness of 20 nanometers, we would need more than 1.4 billion sections to reconstruct fully just one cubic millimeter of tissue.

Total aid went up by around 40 billion rather than 50 billion, and aid to Africa rose by 10 15 billion per year rather than 25 billion. The properly measured shortfall is even greater, because the promises that were made in 2005 should be adjusted for inflation.

That is, they're meaningless without context 500 billion for this pipeline, 20 billion for this war.

Qatar has provided 5 billion to Egypt since 2011, with a promise of 3 billion more.

The volume of Greece s foreign debt has been reduced by more than 100 billion ( 130 billion).

Americans lose around 3.7 billion hours and 2.3 billion gallons of fuel sitting in traffic jams.

The US trade deficit has declined from 60 billion a month to just 26 billion, according to the most recent data.

Support for blind young people in Kankan for 0.95 and 0.43 billion in 1998 and 2001.

Thus, GDP would be higher than otherwise by 120 billion in 2009 and 180 billion in 2010..., and by 60 billion in 2011.

In 2011, SWFs invested 35.2 billion in financial services, 13.4 billion in property, 13.2 billion in fossil fuel resources (mainly oil and gas), 6.5 billion in infrastructure and utilities, and 3.4 billion in aircraft, car, ship, and train manufacturers.

One model is the European Investment Bank, which, with 50 billion of capital, has been able to invest 400 billion.

It is for this reason that I have suggested a capital increase to the shareholders of the bank to 30 billion from the current 20 billion.

In 2008, French Polynesia's imports amounted to 2.2 billion US dollars and exports amounted to 0.2 billion US dollars.

Global subsidies for industrial fishing are estimated to be between 14 50 billion per year.

In 2012, US exports to the EU totaled roughly 206 billion ( 272 billion), while EU exports to the US amounted to nearly 300 billion.

In 2010, China s ordinary trade balance recorded a 71 billion deficit with East Asia and surpluses of 44 billion and 23 billion with the US and Europe, respectively.

The 4.3 Billion Shrug

And you could basically do this a billion times.

One billion people speak English.

The age of the Earth is about 4.5 billion years.

Support for women's groups 1998 0.45 billion.

Well the answer, of course, is, if you spend 125 billion or 130 billion dollars a year in a country, you co opt almost everybody.