How to use "billion" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "billion" in popular movie and book plots

  • The Doctor takes Rose to the year 55/apple/26, five billion years into her future.  - The End of the World (Doctor Who)
  • Diaspar is a seemingly ageless city in the year 10 billion AD; the last child, Alvin, was born seventeen years ago.  - Against the Fall of Night
  • This could cost the Larrabee Corporation, run by Linus and his mother Maude, in the neighborhood of a billion dollars.  - Sabrina (1995 film)
  • Arriving there, Ensign Chekov reports that the sensors show no life readings in the system of a billion inhabitants.  - The Immunity Syndrome (Star Trek: The Original Series)
  • They are going to steal a computer floppy disc with bank account numbers worth 60 billion kronor.  - Jönssonligan spelar högt
  • Hong Kong Land tendered the Government for the plot for $476 billion in February 1982, when the market was at a record high.  - Exchange Square (Hong Kong)
  • The novel's final sequence depicts the final two crew members reincarnated on Titan several billion years in the future.  - Titan (Baxter novel)
  • '" Tom suggests a revelation of his own; that night is created from "shadows crawling out from under five billion trees".  - Dandelion Wine
  • The novel is set on Earth in the year 2381, when the population of the planet has reached 75 billion people.  - The World Inside
  • Spiggott is in a game with God, trying to be the first to gather 100 billion souls.  - Bedazzled (1967 film)
  • They demanded JPY 5 billion from the government with a 24-hour deadline.  - Whiteout (2000 film)
  • with 69 billion inhabitants legally registered and approximately another 26 billion in hiding.  - The Futurological Congress
  • The series begins with Triplanetary, beginning two billion years before the present time and continuing into the near future.  - Lensman series
  • government if they do not receive the remains of Big Boss and the ransom of $1 billion within 24 hours.  - Metal Gear Solid
  • Although 61 billion people have perished, Paul's prescient visions indicate that this is far from the worst possible outcome for humanity.  - Dune Messiah
  • The price paid was half the amount of the 6,250 m² Admiralty II plot, for which the MTR Corporation paid HK$182 billion in cash.  - Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong)

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