Milliard

One point two billion pounds. (that's a uk billion - one million million, not a us billion correctly called a milliard). ❋ Unknown (2010)

FWIW, the word 'milliard' means billion in French. ❋ Heather McDougal (2009)

The synonyms architectural and western are almost always used instead of architectonic and occidental. other examples being petroleum (excepting technical use and OPEC) and milliard. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And they DON'T go bust when they lose one or two milliard pounds - they will be rescued by taxpayers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now, Paris contains one twenty-fifth of the total population of France, and Parisian guano being the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on the part of Paris at twenty-five millions in the half milliard which France annually rejects. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ils ont au moins Un milliard d'annees de difference!! ❋ Pinku-tk (2007)

A cela, il ajoute la fin de l'entente sur les services de garde après la première année, ce qui privera le Québec d'un autre milliard de dollars, déplore-t-il, d'où les 4,25 milliards $. ❋ Ed Hollett (2006)

Contrer facebook et son milliard de message par jour ❋ Erick Schonfeld (2005)

TechCrunch en français » Rumeurs: Yahoo racheterait Bebo pour 1 milliard de dollars ❋ Michael Arrington (2005)

TechCrunch en français » Rumeur: Bebo sur le point d'etre rachetî par Google ou MySpace pour 1 milliard ou plus? ❋ Michael Arrington (2005)

Somebody was changing a picture, a Philip Steer painted in a milliard divisionistic dots, two girls running on a waterside pier. ❋ Gash, Jonathan (1991)

J'ai souligne que ce chiffre de 1.7 milliard represente le cofit brut de nos propositions. ❋ Unknown (1984)

I saw a milliard doubts flicker across her face, to and fro like dappling sun on a stream. ❋ Gash, Jonathan (1981)

If they all became at the same time a thousand times smaller, a milliard times smaller, infinitesimal in the mathematical sense of the word, with matter becoming again continuous at each reduction, our chemical laws and our formulae would be unchanged, and the idea of the atom, then driven back infinitely far beyond all experimental reach, would lose its interest and its reality. ❋ Unknown (1965)

But if, for example, the rise in the emulsion to double the rarefaction is a milliard times less than in oxygen, it means that the effective weight of the grain is a milliard times greater than that of the oxygen molecule. ❋ Unknown (1965)

And I have pointed out (1920) that the loss of energy which must then accompany the condensation of hydrogen into helium suffices alone to account for approximately one hundred milliard years of solar radiation at the present rate ❋ Unknown (1965)

This is perhaps an exaggeration, but in so far correct as its peak achievement, 6 milliard electron volts, was set with a view to the energy required for the pair formation of protons - antiprotons. ❋ Unknown (1964)

By means of a new optical method he was able to measure extremely feeble curvature of the tracks, corresponding to electronic energies up to 20 milliard electron volts. ❋ Unknown (1964)

I used to be a [millionaire] with only [900] million pounds, then I sold my [mansion] and now I have over a milliard pounds! Now I'm a milliardaire! ❋ MikeSynonymous (2013)

Don't wear that cheap [transparent] white dress, [you look like] [a millie]. ❋ Lemmalola (2005)