Portugal's borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as it sold almost one and a half billion dollars in short-term securities.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

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

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

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

South Africa has also spent nearly two billion dollars to build five new stadiums, including one in the tourist center of Durban.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

For example,in two thousand five, the United States bought one point four billion dollars worth of cocoa products.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

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

The U.N.World Food Program says more than a billion people one in six worldwide do not get enough food to be healthy.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

One major lender lost more than a billion and a half dollars in the second quarter.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

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

VOA: special.2009.12.19

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

"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 F.T.C.estimates that food,drink and fast-food restaurants spent more than one and a half billion dollars on advertising to young people in two thousand six.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

And it will buy an additional one hundred billion dollars of stock in each company.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

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

Since then,it has received more than one hundred seventy billion dollars in government aid.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

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

The deal is for one hundred forty-five billion dollars in loans.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

GM was one hundred seventy-two billion dollars in debt.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

G.M.was one hundred seventy-two billion dollars in debt.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

The government has spent nearly $2 billion building five new stadiums, including this one in the southeastern city of Durban.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

The World Health Organization says more than one billion adults in other nations are in the same shape.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

In the first nine months of 2009, capital inflows stood at just $12 billion one fifth the level of a year earlier.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

He also pledged one-point-five billion dollars in aid to Pakistan, each year for the next five years, to improve its security forces and economy.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27