Ten billion is rapidly approaching, where the middle class will be the driving factor.
There are a number of estimates out there by others, but they are generally in the eight to ten billion range.
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We make microprocessors so small that their walls are bumpy with molecules and that can perform ten billion computations in a second.
Ten billion light-years distant, Mingus will help shed light on so-called dark energy, the force that appears to be speeding up cosmic expansion.
And the trouble is, for example, we now see the highest levels of waste we've seen for years, ten billion pounds a year wasted.
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At stake were lucrative new oil and gas fields -- by some estimates ten billion tons of oil -- on the Arctic sea floor.
Global population will level off at between eight and ten billion.
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Her start-up costs are projected to run ten billion dollars.
Any business in the world that had only seven hundred complaints out of ten billion sales would believe it had performed a good job in terms of safety and care.
Statistics from Sichuan showed in the first half this year, migrant workers who returned to Sichuan had set up more than 2, 000 businesses with a total revenue over ten billion yuan.
The IPO, which is expected to take place this year, could raise as much as ten billion reais for a 15% stake, based on estimates of the unit's current market value.
Injecting sulfur dioxide, or particles that perform a similar function, would rapidly lower the temperature of the earth, at relatively little expense most estimates put the cost at less than ten billion dollars a year.
The conglomerate, Luneng, was valued at more than ten billion dollars, but a pair of little-known private companies had paid just under five hundred and fifty million dollars for ninety-two per cent of the company, Caijing reported.
Altogether they came up with 29: ten valued at a billion dollars today, and 18 startups that were valued at a billion dollars in the dotcom bubble (LinkedIn, which hit the billion dollar milestone in 2008, was not counted among the current crop of privately-held billion dollar startups, as it recently went public).
Ten wavelengths each carry 100 billion bits -- 100 gigabits -- of information.
If you were to ask IMS Research they believe the number of devices connected to the internet will reach 22 billion in just ten years!
DeParle added that excluding the mandate from his plan would reduce the over-all cost by two hundred and seventy billion dollars over ten years, but it would also leave twenty-eight million Americans uninsured.
The ten current startups to hit the billion-dollar milestone have acquired 19 venture-backed startups.
Dai and the Sutardjas next went after networking products, designing a chip that would transmit data through Ethernet ports at a billion bits per second, ten times the speed of the then current standard.
The top ten Wall Street firms will spend half a billion dollars to upgrade their disaster-recovery capabilities.
The top ten Wall Street firms will spend half a billion dollars in total to upgrade their disaster-recovery capabilities.
We have lost around 60% of our market capitalization over the last ten years, i.e. several hundred billion dollars.
What's more, the budget control act requires an additional almost five hundred billion dollars in reductions over the next ten years.
Curiosity had taken ten years to build and cost two and a half billion dollars.
Ten years from now, assume there will be 1 billion PCs, another billion high- definition TVs and 3 billion telephones.
As the population grows from its current 1.3 billion, experts estimate the swelling population will require about ten million new housing units to be built each year for the next twenty years.
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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