The numbers will also decide how more than four hundred billion dollars a year in federal assistance is divided.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

A city report says economic activity last year totaled almost three billion dollars, a four percent decrease from two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

The latest report estimated charitable giving in the United States last year at more than three hundred seven billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

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

It predicts counterfeit sales will reach seventy-five billion dollars worldwide this year nearly double the level of two thousand five.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

On Thursday JPMorgan Chase reported more than two billion dollars in profit for the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Critics of limiting hours say such a requirement could cost American hospitals about one billion seven hundred million dollars a year.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

The Alaska Travel Industry Association says tourism directly pumps a billion and a half dollars a year into the state economy.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The Treasury says it expects banks to repay one hundred seventy-five billion dollars of TARP money this year.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Microsoft,in its struggle against Google, tried unsuccessfully last year to buy Yahoo for more than forty billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

The report says up to one billion birds die each year from flying into objects like power lines, windows and tall buildings.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

They say the proposed changes could cost American hospitals about one billion six hundred million dollars a year.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

The association's market research shows that Americans spent more than forty-three billion dollars on pets,pet products and pet medical care last year.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

It reported a profit of about six billion dollars in the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

Experts say hoarseness costs several billion dollars a year in lost productivity from people missing work.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

The Copenhagen Accord sets a goal of one hundred billion dollars a year in aid to help poor nations with climate control by twenty-twenty.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

The earlier report estimated profits from trafficking alone at more than thirty billion dollars a year.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

And it was the first company to make more than a billion dollars in a year.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

But in Louisiana alone, the oil and gas industry produces seventy billion dollars each year.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

The ITU estimates that mobile subscriptions will reach five billion three hundred million this year.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

The loans are a share of the one-hundred-fifty-six-billion-dollar rescue deal that Greece secured last year.

VOA: special.2011.07.01

A market research company reported an early estimate of fifteen and a half billion dollars in sales of all games content in the United States last year.

VOA: special.2011.02.23

It had sales last year of almost one hundred fifteen billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Movies earned more than ten billion dollars in ticket sales last year.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Pfizer,based in New York, had sales last year of forty-eight billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

Mexico received a forty-seven billion dollar line of credit for one year.

VOA: special.2009.04.24