Sentences with phrase «few billions»

At some point in the last few billion years, dark energy became dominant in the universe and thus prevented more galaxies and clusters of galaxies from forming.

All of these plans need to be altered if the population is going to grow an extra few billion.

Their remarkable result: The universe had been slowing down for its first few billion years, but then it started speeding up.

Over long term though, the sun will continue to increase insolation to some point in few billions years where the seas will boil.

In the late 1990s, observations of supernovae revealed that the universe has started expanding faster and faster over the past few billion years.

One day, hopefully, Project Loon's balloons will help deliver on the dream of bringing the world's last few billion people to the internet.

And let's be honest, today Arsenal is too expensive for someone to come and put down few billions on the table in cash just to buy Kroenke share.

As they look at galaxies within the nearest few billion light - years from Earth, they find only about half the baryons that should have been produced in the Big Bang.

The same technique can tell astronomers whether the galaxies will crash into each other in the future — a possibility Reid says is likely in the next few billion years.

Before the MAGIC measurement this radiation was believed to stop abruptly when the photons reach a energy few billion times larger than visible light.

Over the last few billion years, a mysterious kind of «galactic warming» has caused many galaxies to change from a lively place where new stars formed every now and then to a quiet place devoid of fresh young stars.

The Budget papers would read Schools squillions Hospitals squillions Aluminium Industry few billion etc etc..

But for many people who are presently on the network, and presumably for the next few billions who will sign up in the coming years, it will be one of their primary experiences of what the web has to offer.

Today ERC - 20 tokens are valued over few billion USD and ENS domains contain locked Ether that is rising near to a billion USD.

«If you assemble all kinds of scientific data on how Earth has evolved in the past few billion years and try to make sense out of them, you eventually realize that mantle convection is rather indifferent to the internal temperature,» said Jun Korenaga, author of the study and professor of geology and geophysics at Yale.

The entire universe was, therefore, a nonhabitable zone for perhaps the first few billion years of its 13.7 - billion - year history.

Adrian Lenardic of Rice University in Houston, Texas, suspects the lower tectonic activity seen in Earth's first few billion years is down to heat: the rocks were hotter and more flexible, so plates were harder to break.

Jupiter would then have continued growing at a slower rate for the next few billion years.

In the last few billion years, animal cells lost the ability to produce Hsp104.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

Lower gas prices — down about 9 % compared to last year — are adding a few billion to U.S. consumers» 2014 holiday spending budget, Customer Growth Partners President Craig Johnson told Fortune.

Just months after raising a few billion dollars for itself, WeWork is passing along some of its good fortune.

It's an astounding figure if you think about it — a few billion short of the current market value of Tesla Motors (TSLA), Elon Musk's groundbreaking electric car company, and ahead of Symantec (SYMC), by some estimates the world's leading cyber security company.

We have a few billion dollars in the bank.

The nice thing about having a few billion dollars is the way it lets you ride out little bumps in the road like, for instance, a global economic calamity.

There are concerns about Constellation Brands» ability to finance the deal, with Wells Fargo musing Constellation Brands could only raise a few billion in cash, not enough to buy Brown - Forman considering it is worth around $ 20 billion.

Spotify's valuation when it lists - expected to be within 90 days after filing — is forecast to be a few billion dollars higher than current trades, as illiquidity risk tends to depress the value ahead of listing, the sources said.

There have been wildly divergent estimates about how much the various LIBOR civil suits and penalties will cost the banks involved, from a few billion to over US$ 160 billion.

A vast increase in available suffixes will benefit businesses niche and large, as well as a few billion Internet users who don't speak English.

Fast - forward a few billion years, and wind erosion has carved into and exposed these layers for scientists like Okubo to detect from space.

The famous millennial created Facebook, the most powerful social media platform ever — and raked in a few billion dollars along the way.

At the same time, I also wanted to avoid the few billion - dollar successes like Federal Express or Microsoft, which the typical entrepreneur can not realistically hope to emulate.

By opening up bids for its second headquarters to cities and municipalities across the country, Amazon is countering that narrative: For only a few billion dollars in tax breaks, the lucky winner would get 50,000 jobs.

If Bank # 1 needs a few billion dollars for interest payments tomorrow and Bank # 2 has an extra few billion dollars in cash, they can lend the funds to Bank # 1 and charge the rate set by the Fed for interest.

Buffett also said that two investment managers who recently joined the company, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, «will be handling a few billion dollars in 2012, but they have the brains, judgment and character to manage our entire portfolio» when he and Charlie Munger, Berkshire's vice chairman, are no longer running the company.

child porn, to use a popular boogeyman of censors and civil liberties activists complaining about censors alike), and then expand the apparatus over time until eventually it gets into the hands of some enterprising young hotshots that promptly decide they can make a few billion dollars through the cryptoeconomic equivalent of LIBOR manipulation.

A few billion extra dollars a year to help fight them off can't hurt.

The $ 120 million fund is dominated by family money and a few outside investors, but Miller is working on marketing materials and predicts it could reach a few billion dollars soon.

Aside from my prop group, which managed a few billion dollars, there were a few handfuls of other groups, all under one umbrella.

P2P currently lends a few billion dollars, which is nothing in the global scheme of things.

Mutual Funds Newsletter what's it worth to you when the mutual fund market is set to reach close to 1.3 trillion dollars give or take a few billion over the next 10 years or so.

A few billion dollars vanished as products that trade at the inverse of the VIX, which essentially wagered on the market's stability, cratered.

And with over $ 66 billion in cash on hand, Microsoft could drop a few billion on the Dell deal and barely notice.

And if the Time Warner deal is completed, that should add a few billion dollars more to cash flow.

What would we be like to emerging life forms in a few billion years in some nascent «neighbouring universe»?

I am a nuclear physicist and do not believe in God, which was a slow process in my life to conclude that a few billion years of trial and error along with some incredible sets of «rules» make what happened on Earth inevitable, and is happening on any planet with the near same conditions that are found here.

Those who call yourselves Christian who have wealth, well tomorrow why don't you go out there and put some money into education and empower someone, go out there and donate a few billion to schools and hospitals to lessen the burden on the powerless, go out there and hire a few MILLION PEOPLE with your TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

When it comes to money, the difference between the budgets that Democrats and Republicans want are miniscule - a few billion or so in a budget that will eventually come in at roughly $ 3.8 trillion.