1. Oil leases have cost over a thousand million dollars.

2. These slaves have already cost us a thousand million sesterces.

3. The human brain consists of about ten thousand million nerve cells.

4. American sales rose by 66 percent in 1988 to $9.2 thousand million, nearly matching the Soviet level of $9.9 thousand million —a 47-percent drop during the same period.

5. In English, a “Billion” is 1 000 000 000 (a thousand million)

6. The aggregate value of the contracts amounted to approximately FRF 1.4 thousand million.

7. Why were you given a brain that could serve a thousand million lifetimes?

8. Traffic in illicit drugs was now worth some 500 thousand million dollars a year.

9. A Spanish-language magazine claims that this is the world’s biggest business —$300 thousand million a year.

10. He is said to possess a fortune of more than two-and-a-half-thousand million dollars.

11. The United States had about 22.8 thousand million dollars in gold to back that up, a huge surplus.

12. Mass storage units, using these densities on strips of magnetic tape, can retain over 200 thousand million characters.

13. Today, the cosmetic industry spends some two thousand million dollars a year on advertising in the United States alone.

14. And in the United States it costs industry more than four thousand million dollars a year through absenteeism and reduced performance.

15. These young galaxies offer important new insights into the Universe's formative years, just one thousand million years after the Big Bang.

16. Illegal trade in untaxed cigarettes costs the German State about one thousand million marks ($674 million, U.S.) a year in lost tax receipts.

17. Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath said Arab countries have not provided the one thousand million dollars in aid promised at a meeting in October.

18. These simple organisms, Cyanobacteria ruled the still cooling earth for approximately a thousand million (over a billion) years and gradually transformed the atmosphere to one containing free oxygen.

19. A million is 10 6, or 1,000,000.A Billion is one thousand million, or 1,000,000,000 (10 9).This is the common usage in English-speaking countries and is called the short scale.Countries in continental Europe and Latin America use the long scale where a Billion is a million millions (10 12).

20. Michael Denton compared even the tiniest of living cells to “a veritable microminiaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the non-living world.”