| 1. | For the uses of billion see the examples at hundred. |
| 关于billion?渐╬?k?úhundred词条中的示例。
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| 2. | The Hubble telescope was launched into space by NASA on April 20,1990 at a cost of over a billion dollars. |
| 哈勃望远镜于1990年4月20日由国家航空航天局发射升空，耗资10多亿美元。
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| 3. | Only the Earth provides ideal conditions, and even here it has taken more than four billion years for plant and animal life to evolve. |
| 只有地球提供理想的条件，而即使在这里，植物和动物的进化也用了40亿年的时间。
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| 4. | entail an annual expenditure of ten billion dollars |
| 每年需要花费100亿美元
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| 5. | have a total storage of eight billion cubic feet of water |
| 具有80亿立方英尺水的总贮存量
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| 6. | Workers like Mr.Vann are caught in the middle as the city and the unions square off in an 11th-hour countdown to balance the budget, which now has a $ 3.5 billion gap for the fiscal year that starts on July 1. |
| 在市府与各工会为平衡短缺35亿的预算(会计年度自七月一日开始)倒数计时的十一个小时的争论中，像范恩先生这样的工人夹在中间左右为难。
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