The World Health Organization says more than one billion people live in areas where renewable water resources are not available.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

It also includes the largest criminal fine ever in any case in the United States, more than one billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

An estimated one billion people in forty countries watched this program when it was broadcast on television in nineteen seventy-three.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

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

Researchers using satellite images found at least ten percent tree cover on more than one billion hectares of farmland.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

More than one billion eight hundred million vehicles have used the bridge since it opened more than seventy years ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

That includes major improvements to the airport in Johannesburg and a new one billion dollar airport in Durban.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

UNICEF is appealing for more than one billion dollars in aid for women and children around the world.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

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

VOA: special.2009.06.02

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

The number of smokers is expected to grow to one billion seven hundred million by twenty twenty-five.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

Even after all the warnings, the WHO says one billion three hundred million people still smoke.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

Recently,Forbes magazine declared Tiger Woods the first athlete to reach one billion dollars in career earnings.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

Officials say the new law will save the government sixty-one billion dollars over ten years.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

"We are active now in one hundred ninety countries and it's estimated that one billion people participate in Earth Day events around the globe now."

VOA: special.2010.04.21

The World Bank and two European development banks agreed last week to provide up to thirty-one billion dollars in aid to central and eastern Europe.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

The World Food Program said last week that the number of hungry people will pass one billion this year for the first time in history.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Days of violent clashes and rioting caused more than one billion dollars in damage.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

Market researchers estimate that more than one billion personal computers are in use worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

If current rates continue, that number could reach one billion in this century.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

Congress provided one billion dollars for car dealers to pay for trade-ins.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

Yet,by some estimates the band has sold one billion albums worldwide.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

Last year,the group received income of more than one billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

More than one billion people around the world are smokers.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

The United States promised more than one billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.02