Bacteria evolved the necessary chemistry to "fix" nitrogen from the air, about two billion years ago.
There are going to be over two billion people to feed across Africa in coming generations.
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Those two billion downloads are the capstone on a massive year for the App store.
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If the company had tried to raise two billion yuan, could it have done it?
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Now they've come in and said, yeah, we'll do two billion dollars for levees.
But you must not forget that gold is still precious to two billion Chinese and Indians.
By 2050, they'll be close to two billion people, two-ninths of the world, 20% of the world.
The Kremlin hopes to land a contract for two more reactors worth a potential two billion dollars.
Text messages are accompanied by ads and Pinger now serves up to two billion ads a month.
Intestinal worms are estimated to affect up to two billion people around the world, mainly in poor areas.
The Gunflint deposit was nearly two billion years old in a stroke, it had quadrupled the known history of life.
Since introducing the section in August 2011, Netflix members have watched more than two billion hours of kids' titles.
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Over two billion people are online and an additional 500 million will connect for the first time this year.
We now have two billion more people playing the great game of capitalism.
The researchers' analysis, reported in Science magazine, shows the meteorite to be just over two billion years old.
Therefore, one to two billion CPUs each year are designed into embedded systems.
He had previously founded two billion-dollar companies, the latter of them Silicon Graphics.
There are apps that do lots of different things, and it took 22 years to get two billion people online.
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We found out that a big mistake at one of our biggest banks resulted in a two billion dollar loss.
During that time, about two billion people have meaningfully entered a global economy that used to be dominated by Western consumers.
Two billion people in the emerging world are joining the global economy and competing toe-to-toe for scare resources with the West.
Facebook is stuck with a deeply wounded stock and two billion in shares about to be released from lockups in coming weeks.
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People are eating out more than ever before - two billion meals a year and rising - and fewer meals are home-cooked.
Run by the Mormon Church, it contains more than two billion names of the deceased, more than 2.2 million rolls of microfilm and 300, 000 books.
In southeast Asia and Africa, an estimated two billion people already eat insects and caterpillar larvae as a regular part of their diet.
The IBRC claims the Quinn family owes it more than two billion euros and is trying to recover the money from their assets.
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The elderly population is expected to swell by 200 million in the next decade to surpass one billion, and reach two billion by 2050.
The company, called 360 Aviation, was trying to sell Bell helicopters to Iran in a two billion rand deal, according to the Sunday Times.
Exploitation of the estimated two billion tonnes of iron ore deposits in Hajigak mine - located in Bamiyan - is expected to begin by 2015.
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