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billions

n. (plural of billion English)

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billions

n. a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) [syn: millions, trillions, zillions, jillions]

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Billions (film)

Billions is a lost 1920 American silent comedy film produced by and starring Alla Nazimova and distributed by Metro Pictures. Ray Smallwood directed. It is based on a French play, L'Homme riche, by Jean Jose Frappa and Henry Dupuy-Mazuel.

Billions (TV series)

Billions is an American television drama series created by David Levien and Andrew Ross Sorkin, starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis premiering on Showtime. The series is loosely based on the activities of crusading federal prosecutor of financial crimes Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

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At a stroke, in a simple formula, Einstein endowed geologists and astronomers with the luxury of billions of years.

Ankara considers this trade not only vital but a partial compensation for what it claims to be billions of dollars lost to it in trade from Iraq as a result of the U.

Congress and the administration could justify paying billions of dollars to Syria and hundreds of millions of dollars to Iran to bribe them not to smuggle with Iraq, despite the fact that both continue to support international terrorism and pursue WMD themselves.

No one would like spending the billions of dollars each such threatened invasion would be likely to cost.

Consequently, in purely economic terms, it is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars.

Earth lasts for only about four million years, so if you wish to be around for billions of years, you must be as fickle as the atoms that made you.

From his deck, Evans supposes he can see between 50,000 and 100,000 galaxies, each containing tens of billions of stars.

A star can burn for billions of years, but it dies just once and quickly, and only a few dying stars explode.

It explained how stars could burn for billions of years without racing through their fuel.

None had ever been found to be older than about 175 million years, which was a puzzle because continental rocks were often billions of years old.

A glass of water may not appear terribly lively, but every molecule in it is changing partners billions of times a second.

Every day billions of your cells die for your benefit and billions of others clean up the mess.

Iraq sanctions--not to mention how Congress and the administration could justify paying billions of dollars to Syria and hundreds of millions of dollars to Iran to bribe them not to smuggle with Iraq, despite the fact that both continue to support international terrorism and pursue WMD themselves.

But if only a fraction of the race survived and flourished on other planets, the sacrifice of billions of their predecessors would not have been in vain.

Also, there are vast areas, like rural America, that are an unmapped ultima Thule to those who own the corporations that own the media that spend billions of dollars to take polls in order to elect their lawyers to high office.