Salespeople hand out hundreds of dollars' worth of samples each week—$7.2 billion worth of them in one year.

销售人员每周分发价值数百美元的样品——一年中它们的价值达到72亿美元。

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If you owned a Liberty Head coin from 1913, which is worth about one million dollars, you would probably be willing to give it special treatment, too!

如果你拥有一枚1913年的价值约100万美元的自由女神头像硬币，你可能也会愿意给予它特殊的待遇！

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The Kochs admitted that they had improperly taken thirty-one million dollars’ worth of crude oil, but said that it had been accidental.

科赫公司承认其以非正当手段侵占了约合三千一百万美元的原油，但声称这仅仅是意外。

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But Arkin has been selling shares since 2008, and now confirms that he only has about one-fourth of his initial Perrigo stake, worth a quarter of a billion dollars.

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Many sharks perish as bycatch, but increasingly they are being hunted for their fins, a delicacy in China and a lucrative commodity. (The annual export of fins is thought to be worth about a billion dollars.) One study, published in Ecology Letters last year, estimates that between twenty-six million and seventy-three million sharks are killed for their fins every year.

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