Sentences with phrase «counted by billions»

An average open cluster has spread most of its member stars along its path after several 100 million years; only few of them have an age counted by billions of years.

Not exact matches

The tech company has also returned an additional $ 151 billion to shareholders since its fiscal year 2013 in the form of share buybacks — a move that has reduced share count and boosted earnings per share by about 21 % in the past four years, according to Silverblatt.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. counted $ 331 billion in commercial and industrial bank loans under $ 1 million as of Dec. 31, the largest amount since the end of 2008, when the government agency reported a record $ 336 billion in such loans that are generally taken out by small companies.

Southern Nevada's tourism industry brought a record $ 59.6 billion in economic activity in 2016, according to a study by the Las Vegas - based market research firm, which counts the state of Nevada among its clients.

Fishing and hunting equipment chain Cabela's said it agreed to be bought by rival Bass Pro Shops in a deal valued at $ 5.5 billion that will help the privately held company nearly double its store count in North America.

By Robbins's count, he's involved in 31 companies — 12 of which he actively manages — to the tune of a reported $ 5 billion in annual revenue.

Now, casting a wider net, Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $ 1 billion or more by venture capitalists (full list here).

The hit YouTuber — better known by his alias, CaptainSparklez — launched a gaming studio called XReal, which now counts nine million YouTube subscribers, and has 3,000 videos that have been watched more than two billion times.

After expanding its room count by a third under Chief Executive Officer Christopher Nassetta, Hilton went public in December 2013 in a record IPO for a hotel company, raising more than $ 2.35 billion.

In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 «The Age of the Unicorns» noting — «Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $ 1 billion or more by venture capitalists.»

Instead, the government committed to reducing debt by $ 3 billion a year, primarily counting on better - than - expected fiscal results at year end to honour that commitment.

At 17.2 billion euros, Vivendi's market capitalization compares with almost 40 billion euros in total value of its various businesses, not counting net debt, according to April estimates by Morgan Stanley analysts.

With the XRP market cap hovering around $ 34 billion (not counting the 55 billion XRP reserve maintained by Ripple Labs), the security scrutiny is understandable, especially given the centralization of its issuance and development.

US military aid to Israel now exceeds $ 3.5 billion a year — not counting the value of special projects like the «Iron Dome» missile defense system the Senator is so enthralled by.

By the Giffords Center's count, Floridians are blowing more than $ 5 billion per year in direct costs stemming from gunshot wounds.

This price bubble has been fueled by the $ 2.0 trillion — and still counting as the Fed is still buying $ 10's of billions of mortgages every month — of money printing.

Its gold, gas and diamond holdings are few smaller and they're counted by the nation's central bank in its $ 9.7 billion of dwindling foreign reserves, a paltry sum for any country.

But the cofounder of the world's largest social media site, worth $ 22.9 billion by FORBES» Thursday count, has been on quite a home buying spree.

There were some 267 million Catholics in the world in 1900; today, the world Church counts 1.2 billion members, with a projected growth to 1.6 billion by the middle of the century.

Well seeing as only 33 % of people on this planet believe in your version of a god, that means 4.6 billion people (and counting) are going to be burned in hell by your god.

By my count the Earth was «without form» for around 9.25 billion years.

Christians to deny evolution by natural selection, or to assert against all evidence that the earth is 10,000 years old rather than four and a half billion years, I can not imagine anyone being counted among the goats at the Last Judgment because when faced with what they sincerely believed to be a choice between God and Darwin, they chose God.

Suswam and his former Commissioner for Finance, Omadachi Oklobia, were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC on a nine - count charge, bordering on money laundering to the tune of N3.1 billion.

The drug war costs us at least $ 50 billion / year and that's not counting all the lives wrecked by a criminal record.

In all, the Democratic governor boasted that there will be $ 100 billion worth of investments in New York, counting some expenditures from last year, spending by public authorities and matching funds from the private sector.

Badeh, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside Iyalikam Nigeria Limited on a 10 - count charge bordering on money laundering, criminal breach of trust and corruption to the tune of N3.97 billion, had on March 7, 2016 pleaded not guilty to the charges.

«New Yorkers are counting on Speaker Heastie and Majority Leader Flanagan to join the governor by signing the MOU to release $ 2 billion in affordable housing funds.

Turnah, alongside seven firms, were arraigned on 12 counts bordering on obtaining by false pretence, money laundering and abuse of office to the tune of N3, 094, 268, 235.69 (Three billion, ninety - four million, two hundred and sixty - eight thousand, two hundred and thirty - five naira, sixty - nine kobo).

Dudafa, and other were dragged to the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), facing 23 - counts of concealment and retention of proceeds of crime to the tune of over N1, 667,162,800.00 (One billion, six hundred and sixty seven million, one hundred and sixty two thousand, eight hundred Naira).

Shamsudeen was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on a 15 - count charge bordering on money laundering to the tune of N1.1 billion.

Quite the opposite actually...... «If indeed it is better to give than receive, New York City and its suburbs can count their blessings by the billions of dollars.

Revenues from the ongoing Wall Street rally will be a «bright spot» heading into potentially difficult state budget talks complicated by the federal tax overhaul, but New York government leaders shouldn't count on stock market gains to cover a deficit projected to be in the billions of dollars, the state's top fiscal officer said Tuesday.

Cuomo is counting on a big chunk of the bill to be paid by others: $ 25 billion by the federal government, $ 15 billion by private investors, $ 13 billion by the Metropolitan Transit Authority, and $ 12 billion by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Badeh, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside Iyalikam Nigeria Limited on a 10 - count charge bordering on money laundering, criminal breach of trust and corruption to the tune of N3.97 billion was on March 10, 2016 granted N2 billion bail.

The portion of the budget paid for by state taxpayers will rise just under two percent Despite the one - time windfall, he had to bridge a $ 1.8 billion deficit in the current budget, which he did by counting $ 373 million in additional, not immediately identified revenues as well as cutting $ 92 million from state agencies, booking $ 121 million in savings from «debt management» and cutting $ 1.4 billion from funding for various local assistance programs.

Embattled former Chairman of DAAR Communications, Chief Raymond Dokpesi has failed in his bid to regain freedom after being docked on Wednesday on a six - count charge bordering on alleged procurement fraud and breach of public trust to the tune of N2.1 billion before Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja by the EFCC.

Daudu, who was first arraigned in April 2010, was prosecuted by the EFCC on a 208 - count charge bordering on money laundering and misappropriation of public funds to the tune of N1.4 billion.

Nyako and the others are standing trial before Justice E. Chukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja in a 37 - count charge bordering on criminal conspiracy, stealing, abuse of office and money laundering to the tune of N29 billion preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Such afflictions carry a hefty price tag of $ 21 billion annually with costs projected to rise much further, especially because Bielory expects pollen counts to double by 2040.

But the researchers, led by AWI atmospheric scientist Markus Rex, found levels in the west Pacific below 10 ozone particles per billion — so low their instruments couldn't even get a precise count.

This announcement was made on Saturday by Kepler science chief William Borucki at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington D.C.. However, Kepler didn't actually count 50 billion exoplanets, this number comes from extrapolations of the data taken so far by the exoplanet - hunting space telescope.

Treated by some as a major studio (and we're counting it as one this year, mainly out of sympathy) after merging with Summit and grossing over $ 2 billion worldwide for two straight years, Lionsgate regressed in 2014.

If the National Board reaches its goal of having 105,000 certified teachers by 2006, states and districts may be spending nearly $ 1 billion annually in additional compensation alone (not counting the $ 2,300 National Board assessment fee and related costs).

In early 2016, spurred by a seemingly perpetual bankruptcy crisis at Detroit Public Schools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter schools.

It is simple mathematics: The Spanish language is spoken by more than 400 million people; Chinese is spoken by more than 1 billion people worldwide; also, Arabic is spoken by more than 250 million people, not to mention Hindi, Russian, German, Japanese, or Bengali, all of which count tens of millions of speakers.

Over 28 million works have been uploaded to Wattpad in the past seven years, and the availability of mobile devices has opened up the ability to read this content anywhere, as nearly 90 % of the traffic through Wattpad is now coming from readers who access the site via mobile devices; at last count, nearly 5 billion minutes per month are being spent by users who are engaged with the content, all of it free to read.

Additionally, by the same firm's count, over 2.5 billion apps have been downloaded from the Android Market since its launch.

Expect to see more lenders offering mobile application, with the total number of smartphone users expected to reach 6.1 billion globally by 2020 — more than double the 2015 count.

Market cap EUR 80 billion & counting: Well, 99.8 % of the bank's owned by the government, so only a tiny 0.2 % of AIB's shares (and an even tinier % that's actually traded) dictate the overall valuation of the company — no matter how ludicrous.

100 % of the stock of BNSF, for example, valued at BRK's cost of $ 34 Billion — is owned by National Indemnity and counts towards the statutory surplus.