The billion dollars was supposed to last until November.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

Economists say imparting quality education is critical for a country where one third of the billion-plus people are under 15 and where, despite a booming economy, many people are still poor.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

But since last year there has been little activity in the seven hundred fifty billion dollar market for commercial mortgage securities.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

The World Health Organization has predicted that the virus will infect at least two billion people in the next two years.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

The government wants forty-six creditors to accept two billion dollars instead of the seven billion dollars the company owes.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

The Obama administration is proposing to spend ten billion dollars over the next ten years to set nutrition rules for schools.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

The United Nations says more than two and a half billion people around the world do not have good sanitation.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

The President said the government will provide about eight billion dollars in additional loans to the company during this period.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

But,as archivist Constance Potter points out, that is only a fraction of the ten billion records the Archives holds.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that more than one billion of the world's people faced hunger last year.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Also,the department plans to award almost six billion dollars through other federal programs in the coming months to support reform efforts.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

The World Health Organization has predicted that the H1N1 virus will infect at least two billion people in the next two years.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

The measure includes ten billion dollars for education and sixteen billion for Medicaid, the joint state-federal government medical program for the poor.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

The idea is similar to the administration's four billion dollar Race to the Top competition to reform schools.

VOA: special.2010.03.18