6 sentences with 'billions'
Example sentences and phrases with the word billions and other words derived from it.
• « In the second half of the 1980s, billions of dollars were invested in East Asia by Japanese companies; this money was used to build factories, and in some cases to set up industries in places where rice and carabao farmers had previously dominated. »
• « Your memory, capable of storing billions of bits of information, when you think of a sausage has constructed an image from the sum of the memories of the sausages you have seen, smelled and eaten in your life. »
• « He first assumed that after the Big Bang the universe would expand to a certain size and then, after billions of years, gravity would cause it to collapse in on itself, in what might be called the Big Crunch. Time would thus have a beginning and an end. »
• « According to some experts, we were not the first inhabitants of the Earth: billions of years ago there was an advanced technology that destroyed its creators in the process. »
• « An analysis of these stratified dust hills would allow scientists to find out if, billions of years ago, there was an environment that allowed some form of life on Mars. »
• « With contemporary chips, the speed of sophisticated equipment exceeds billions of instructions per second. As machines become ever more capable and faster, their programming is becoming ever more flexible, agile and "intelligent". »