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

And the plan calls for one hundred billion dollars a year in aid to poor nations to deal with climate change.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

Greece needs to borrow more than seventy billion dollars this year to finance its budget and refinance its debts.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

On Wednesday, the Congressional Budget Office estimated the federal budget deficit this year at one trillion two hundred billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.01.09

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

A recent report predicted that the number of mobile phone accounts worldwide will reach almost four and a half billion this year.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

Earlier, the president noted a report which showed that Wall Street bankers got more than 18 billion dollars in bonuses last year.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

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

The Food and Agriculture Organization says more than forty billion dollars a year needs to be invested in agriculture to defeat world hunger.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

And it expects that number to increase to forty-five billion dollars by the end of this year, even with the current economic downturn.

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

Treatments for these diseases cost the United States almost one hundred fifty billion dollars every year.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

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

VOA: special.2009.09.02

Phil Sumrall says NASA's estimate to keep the Ares program going forward as planned calls for three billion dollars in additional spending a year.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

"In addition to the deaths, there's about two-point-five billion and I want to emphasize, about two-point-five billion cases of diarrhea among children every year."

VOA: special.2009.11.17

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