And we don't want to wait three and four years and spend hundreds of millions of dollars.

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The company was liable for three hundred and fifty million dollars in fines, and four Koch employees faced up to thirty-five years in prison.

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And the government spends four years and, undoubtedly, million upon million of dollars going after ... a ballplayer?

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The European Commission will spend about ninety five million dollars over the next four years trying to prevent children and young adults from smoking.

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The project is expected to directly employ 450 to 600 workers on the construction site each year for four years, and pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the local economy.

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Shuttleworth made his fortune after starting an Internet security firm in his parents' garage and selling it four years later for hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Four years later newspapers are dramatically smaller, in both ad dollars and staff.

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Beyond the stress of applications and essays, families often face tuition and boarding costs that approach a quarter of a million dollars over the course of four years.

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The multibillion-dollar TV contracts for football, baseball and basketball will rack up billions of dollars in losses for the four major broadcast networks in the next few years, a Morgan Stanley report predicts.

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The 2011 Budget Control Act, which raised the debt ceiling and created both the fiscal cliff and a Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, which was supposed to find a way to steer clear of it, required four hundred and eighty-seven billion dollars in cuts to military spending, spread over the next ten years.

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