7 sentences with “billion”

Taiwan has launched a $300 billion six-year plan to build highways, subways and power plants.

The victorious alliance of Britain and France imposed massive reparations on Germany: 132 billion gold marks.

Every year, Argentines spend some 1.5 billion dollars - 50 dollars per capita - on medicines; half of this amount corresponds to home prescriptions.

To date, Taiwan has invested about $5 billion in Malaysia, and South Korea, once a large-scale capital importer, is now exporting resources to its less-developed neighbors.

Hermann Göring, at the time the second most powerful Nazi leader after Hitler, then demanded one billion marks from the German Jewish population for damages caused by the riots.

Simultaneously, the Weimar Republic faced continuing economic problems, which fuelled the resentment of most Germans towards the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and its reparation payments (set at 132 billion gold marks a year, although that amount was renegotiated and reduced over the decade).

Lynn Margulis, professor of biology at Boston University in Massachusetts and co-author of Microcosmos, has hypothesized that 1 billion years ago, hungry aerobic (oxygen-breathing) bacteria attacked and got inside some anaerobic (non-oxygen-breathing) bacteria, which were unable to live in Earth's then-new oxygen atmosphere.