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The former directly accrued billions of petrodollars from external oil rent.
To use a simile, history is like a collection of billions of equations (causal chains) that are all dependent upon each other.
We have to establish the principal mechanism of cell's behaviour in permafrost conditions, that probably might work for billions of years.
First, transgenic crops have a high potential for social good - literally improving the lives of billions of people.
They include many beneficial and deleterious species, the latter associated with billions of dollars' worth of agricultural losses annually.
After four decades and tens of billions of dollars, pounds, yen, and roubles, this is an odd place to be.
If habitable planets exist in these systems, then their orbits should stay put for billions of years.
They are considered primordial grains and seeds of interplanetary dust ; because of their extreme stability and inertness they remained unaltered for billions of years.
They are, we assume, members of a highly evolved species, consisting of many individuals (billions, at least), each with relatively small brains.
They claim that if successful it will not only save billions of dollars in space launches but will also prove to be more environmentally friendly.
The set of consequences to the end of history of any event is therefore likely to include billions or more discrete events.
Our knowledge of this world, with its massive evils that have affected billions of causal chains to the end of history, is minuscule.
The idea that you can index billions of pages and look for a word and get what you want is quite a trick.
No science addresses the challenge of understanding a football match on the basis of the activity of billions of physical particles.
The matrix is measured in billions of pesos of 1996.
What does it matter if billions of chickens live in misery until they die in pain and fear?
They destroy billions of pest insects annually in crops worldwide and are key players in biological control.
Change was a given, inducing gradients, forming systems and evolving structures, and the results, emergent over billions of years, included galaxies, stars, planets and life.
We use personal consumption expenditures of nondurables and services, consumption of durable goods, and gross fixed investment in billions of 1992 dollars.
Indeed, the kingdom's leaders have overseen the spending of billions of dollars in pursuit of an elusive national security.
Once the meteorite enters into contact with water after billions of year of radiation processing, it can release its extremely precious organic matter.
We know even less about proposed worlds where billions of primary events have been altered, changing billions of causal chains.
Lacking a knowledge of advanced biological or postbiological motivations, we are unable to predict the nature of civilizations millions or billions of years older than ours.
Underpinning this integration is an intricate interplay among signal transduction, gene expression, and electrical activity within and across neurons that evolved over the course of billions of years.
Factories, which had cost billions of lires to build, were abandoned and fell into ruins, but not without first having destroyed the subsistence economy of the shepherds.
How appropriate to be reviewing e-topia amid the blaze of fireworks and the haze of bonhomie that are uniting billions of people in the first global party.
I am also thinking of the billions of miserable lives (followed by untimely death) led by sentient food-animals, in a world where humans have other food options.
What he sees as worrying is that new systems are even now being planned, costing billions of pounds, yet are poised to repeat exactly the same mistakes.
Even with today's most advanced computers it is beyond computer power to handle a tenth of the billions of automatons that comprise the number of the bacterial population.
From the computational viewpoint, the problem is that of minimizing a parametrized function in a space of very high dimension, for which billions of local minimizers are likely to exist.
Chiral molecules incorporated in comets and meteorites are bombarded for billions of years by cosmic rays and by the high-energy radiation due to the decay of naturally occurring radionuclides.
What will happen to those billions of people engaged in agriculture in countries that are not developing fast enough to productively absorb the farmers leaving the land?
The value of this memoir as a resource cannot be overstated - the information it contains represents billions of pounds of data acquisition, making the £175 price tag look pretty modest.
A precarious existence: the fate of billions?
Converting the billions of pounds into a figure such as £500 for the average family will get home to people just what such figures mean.
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There is no precise estimate of the total costs of congestion, but the cost is some billions of pounds each year.
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Let us not forget the billions of pounds on which councils are sitting which could be used to create a proper house building programme.
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British farming has saved our economy by carrying the burden of billions of pounds' worth of imports.
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We still rely on taking billions of pounds in taxation from the low paid to sustain the present wastage in public expenditure.
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There are, therefore, billions of pounds to be saved by putting people back to work.
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We are paying billions of pounds more in taxation, but the nation is being taxed to finance unemployment.
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Worst of all, they have billions of oil revenue that they are squandering on financing mass unemployment.
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At the same time billions of pounds of savings are being invested in other countries to provide work for other workers.
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Many billions of pounds will be available for the rail and road manufacturing industry, a major fillip needed by the industry.
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The assessment revealed costs to business ranging from £79million (managed funds) to £1.8billion (insurance).
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Is this not proving to be a closing-down sale that will cost the country billions?
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We are talking about billions, not millions, of pounds.
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We are talking about massive amounts in the national insurance fund of billions of pounds.
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The risk is that with billions of active tags on every conceivable item and hundreds of thousands of scanners, a permanent surveillance will be established.
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We are not talking about millions of pounds, but billions.
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The purpose of those billions of pounds is to destroy cities in other parts of the world and to incinerate their populations.
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Very vulnerable small states and their nationals have claims for hundreds of billions of dollars and pounds.
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Billions of pounds were lost across foreign exchanges.
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Then again, why should £3¼ billions of revenue be forgone every year in order to finance tax relief on the interest on mortgages?
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I reiterate that this is an important debate, involving countless billions of pounds.
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The misery is particularly distressing after many years and many billions of official aid and heroic efforts by voluntary agencies.
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Compulsory water metering, while costing billions of pounds, may not save much water, would hit poor people hardest, and might harm their health and well-being.
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However, if that is added together it amounts to the billions we talk about which might be spent on infrastructure.
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We have been talking about billions of pounds but the cost of the university air squadrons is not in that bracket.
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I have been talking about investment and renewal obligations running into billions of pounds.
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Let us make no mistake about it, those new billions will be born.
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Just as surely as the sun rises on every new day, those billions of children will be born.
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All were underpriced and the loss to the taxpayer runs to billions of pounds.
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She needs not hundreds of millions; she needs billions of pounds.
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When a mistake is made, it is our constituents who pick up the bill, which can add up to billions of pounds.
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They would have implications for our benefits system that could cost billions of pounds, but he made no mention of that.
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However, it has taken some time because we are dealing with sums of money that may well amount to many billions of pounds.
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The billions have gone in; development, in general, with marvellous exceptions, has not occurred.
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Without overstating the case, this could be in the order of tens of billions of pounds.
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What is the situation now, given that some 10,000 people are dead or wounded, and that billions of pounds worth of damage has been done?
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Billions of pounds have been lost in sales during the recession.
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Billions of pounds of public money is dispensed without account or clearly defined lines of scrutiny to elected representatives.
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Billions of pounds of taxpayers' money was spent to produce steel that nobody wanted.
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Certainly the shortfall can be counted in billions of pounds.
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Would not there be considerable savings—amounting to billions of pounds—in the social security budget, which could be redirected to those most in need?
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They involve billions of pounds of public money and the ethics of the public service should be continued in that organisation.
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Without the accumulated receipts, this figure would be several billions higher.
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I refer to thousands of millions because billions are confusing.
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If so, how many billions of pounds does he think it would have cost to solve the double level of unemployment that would have resulted?
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In the case of the public sector borrowing requirement, we have come down from £14 billions to £6½ billions in one year.
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Billions of pounds is a meaningless phrase, but here it is equivalent to between £300 and £500 per family per year.
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We are spending billions more on the national health service.
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In whatever area, privatisation cost the country billions of pounds.
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By stimulating economic growth, a development-focused trade round offers the best opportunity to billions of people in developing countries to escape from poverty.
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How much easier it is to spend hundreds of billions of dollars for defense instead of war.
However, the variety of options available for a common product usually allows for billions of feasible product configurations.
By current standards, this also means billions of translated words.
Large-scale, highly mechanized agriculture is probably the greatest threat to the existence of billions of people, for reasons that will be discussed below.
Suppose there were just one generous person in the world, but billions of witty ones.
Most large, developed nations spend billions of dollars every year on their criminal justice systems.
In the end, neither the support of the superpowers nor the oil billions could save it.
Computers can analyse data from telescopes, control distant spacecraft and predict the behaviour of billions of atoms in a solid material.
Few people are aware that each human being encloses billions of micro-organisms and is surrounded by trillions more.
Yes, billions have been saved, but it all seems to go into the pockets of the plans, the insurance companies, and the employers.
As the basis of a foreign policy, it resulted in the wasting of millions of lives and countless billions of dollars.
Thirdly, and probably even more important, was the new reality in international finance, the billions of drug dollars requiring laundering.
Additional billions have been invested in buildings, in part to house the automation.
Although all the facts are not known, it is perplexing how such a basic error involving billions of dollars could go undetected by the auditors.
Both conversions released billions which were credited to the budget.
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