The project, which lasted four years, cost one billion dollars.

这项工程历时四年，耗资十亿美元。

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The medicare cost is estimated to be one billion dollars.

老年医疗保健费用估计为十亿美元。

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His so called stimulus package which cost us, the tax payers 800 billion to one trillion dollars has not helped our situation. It has done the opposite it has made thing worse.

他所谓的激励全面计划，花费了我们纳税人的八千到一万个亿，却没有解决任何问题，仅使问题更加严重。

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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

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

VOA: special.2009.06.02

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

VOA: special.2010.06.07

This is because almost all the cost of making a drug is the fixed one (a billion dollars or so) of finding the chemical and setting up the vats to brew it.

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For one thing, this study alone will likely cost about a half a BILLION dollars.

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