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

It predicts counterfeit sales will reach seventy-five billion dollars worldwide this year nearly double the level of two thousand five.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

The Obama administration is proposing to spend ten billion dollars over the next ten years to set nutrition rules for schools.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

The President said the government will provide about eight billion dollars in additional loans to the company during this period.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

On Tuesday, President Obama announced a plan to invest twelve billion dollars in community colleges over the next ten years.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Researchers using satellite images found at least ten percent tree cover on more than one billion hectares of farmland.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

European governments and the International Monetary Fund are considering as much as sixty-five billion dollars in new loans to Greece.

VOA: special.2011.06.10

The World Health Organization has predicted that the virus will infect at least two billion people in the next two years.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

The Alaska Travel Industry Association says tourism directly pumps a billion and a half dollars a year into the state economy.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

States are competing to share in almost three and a half billion dollars as part of a school reform competition.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

The United Nations says more than two and a half billion people around the world do not have good sanitation.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

They criticized a proposal for industrialized nations to pay developing countries ten billion dollars a year over three years.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

More than one billion eight hundred million vehicles have used the bridge since it opened more than seventy years ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

BP agreed to put twenty billion dollars over the next three years into an independent fund to pay claims and damages.

VOA: special.2010.06.19