• They were threatened and protected, but a set of fins went for five hundred dollars a kilo, in the right hands.

    NEWYORKER: Swimming

  • Like many active members of Scientology, they had kept money in an account (in their case, twenty-five hundred dollars) for future courses they intended to take.

    NEWYORKER: The Apostate

  • With a top speed of around twenty-five miles per hour, it would do little for the ego, but, at just over five hundred dollars, it was worth a try.

    NEWYORKER: Green Giant

  • Five hundred dollars will buy you a month's supply.

    BBC: New drugs give cheats the edge

  • In the fall of 2011, he sold two Mongolian oviraptor nests for more than three hundred and fifty dollars each, a tyrannosaurus ileum for five hundred and sixty-one dollars, a tyrannosaurus tooth for three hundred and twenty-five dollars, and a tyrannosaurus tail vertebra for four hundred and ten dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

  • Hancock left him five hundred thousand dollars in his will, but not a penny of that was paid.

    NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

  • The most he was asked for was five hundred thousand dollars per year.

    NEWYORKER: The Cost Conundrum

  • In 2007, Merrill Lynch acquired almost half the company, a transaction that valued it at about five hundred million dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Madoff��s Curveball

  • What's more, the budget control act requires an additional almost five hundred billion dollars in reductions over the next ten years.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • According to tax records, it was funded by two donations: one of five hundred thousand dollars, the other of fifty thousand dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Partners

  • Since joining the World Bank, in 1992, Uzbekistan had received more than five hundred million dollars in loans, mostly for rural water and health projects.

    NEWYORKER: The Next Crusade

  • Another five hundred billion dollars to come at least.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Monica Crowley, Mightier Pen 2012

  • Five hundred billion dollars already.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Monica Crowley, Mightier Pen 2012

  • The conglomerate, Luneng, was valued at more than ten billion dollars, but a pair of little-known private companies had paid just under five hundred and fifty million dollars for ninety-two per cent of the company, Caijing reported.

    NEWYORKER: The Forbidden Zone

  • Adelson, with a controlling stake in the company, reportedly earned five hundred and ten million dollars from the sale.

    NEWYORKER: The Brass Ring

  • By December, 2008, the Sterling partners had about four hundred million dollars in Sterling Stamos accounts and about five hundred and fifty million with Madoff.

    NEWYORKER: Madoff��s Curveball

  • By 2004, the special fund had grown to three hundred and eighty-five million dollars annually.

    NEWYORKER: Romney��s Dilemma

  • In December, the Prokopis put Serenola on the market for eight hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

  • In the spring of 2009, Congress authorized a hundred and sixty-five million dollars to be spent on more vigilant fraud enforcement.

    NEWYORKER: A Dirty Business

  • Because of the lenient return policy, however, net sales were only six hundred and thirty-five million dollars, according to the Amazon S.E.

    NEWYORKER: Happy Feet

  • As the bidding opened, at eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, Robert Painter, an attorney from Houston, stood up, a BlackBerry in his hand.

    NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

  • And speaking of that change in power in Congress, President Bush's budget calls for cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, about hundred billion dollars over five years.

    NPR: Budget Breakdown: Defense, Health and Energy

  • After fourteen years of planning and construction, at a cost of a hundred and thirty-five million dollars, the gallery occupies one connected space in three buildings.

    NEWYORKER: Boola Boola

  • The decision was pragmatic: he was so popular that he handily raised more money than John McCain, ultimately spending a record-breaking seven hundred and forty-five million dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Schmooze or Lose

  • In the past forty-two years, he said, Africans have received five hundred and sixty-eight billion dollars in aid, yet there has been no appreciable improvement in their living standards.

    NEWYORKER: The Next Crusade

  • In June, 2007, a measure authorizing the U.S. Department of Labor to spend a hundred and twenty-five million dollars to train workers for green jobs was introduced in the House.

    NEWYORKER: Greening the Ghetto

  • Frequently, in both the Israeli and the foreign press, it is said simply that Bennett developed anti-fraud security software for financial institutions and sold his company, Cyota, for a hundred and forty-five million dollars.

    NEWYORKER: The Party Faithful

  • Government tax revenue is often more than double the budget, and, like Kuwait, Macau distributes occasional checks to its residents under a program named the Wealth Partaking Scheme. (Last year: eight hundred and seventy-five dollars per person.) Unemployment is below three per cent.

    NEWYORKER: The God of Gamblers

  • Within a year, the Sands Macao had recouped its construction costs, of two hundred and sixty-five million dollars, and Adelson embarked on an idea that he described as coming to him in a dream: to replicate the Las Vegas Strip on a stretch of open sea between two islands in Macau.

    NEWYORKER: The God of Gamblers

  • Each client paid five dollars and answered more than a hundred multiple-choice questions.

    NEWYORKER: Looking for Someone

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