The FAS has fined Google almost half a billion roubles

Over the second half of the twentieth century, the hungry of the Earth shrank from half of its three billion human inhabitants to less than a billion of the current 6.5 billion.

There are now seven billion people on the planet, compared to just three billion a half century ago.

The next quarter billion will be added in half that time.

He sent about 2.2 billion spam emails over a period of around one and a half years.

BANGALORE Half of humanity 3.5 billion people live in urban areas today.

And that is how our solar system was formed, four and a half billion years ago.

It's going to cost us 10 billion. And we'll produce half a gigawatt of fusion power.

All of us, seven and a half billion human beings living on this planet, are selfish.

Half of the increase, or 25 billion per year, would go to Africa.

Last weekend, Moscow spent more than half a billion rubles (almost 9 million) on a festival for the city's 869th birthday.

In effect, the G 8 fulfilled only half of its promise to Africa roughly 15 billion in increased aid rather than 30 billion.

Now, this is just a single switch and you need half a billion for a computer, so we have a long way to go.

To reduce the loss of coral reefs by half would cost about 3 billion each year and yield at least 72 billion in benefits.

Over half a billion people live without modern forms of energy, and the continent s share of global trade remains a paltry 3 .

There's a billion people obese or overweight and a billion people hungry.

Consider Renesas Electronics, a medium size company, with 150 billion ( 1.9 billion) in annual sales, which accounts for more than half of worldwide production of essential micro computing components for automobiles.

Consider the trauma a country like India might have suffered if its population of a half billion had remained barely fed as it doubled.

More than a half of Russia s goods are sold in Europe, and two of its top three trade partners are European Germany, with turnover of 31.9 billion, and the Netherlands, 28.3 billion.

America runs a chronic current account deficit approaching an astonishing 5 of GDP 242 billion in the first half of this year.

Gates pointed out that military spending totals nearly a half trillion dollars annually, compared to the State Department s budget of 36 billion.

For example, consider a line segment this segment can be split in half, that half split in half, the half of the half in half, and so on.

A 'half road shutdown'

I'd like a half a kilogram of these and a half a kilogram of those.

At least half the 800 billion US currency supply is held abroad, mainly in the world s underground economy.

Half of each year's 100 billion points of thermal plastic pellets will be made into fast track trash.

High income countries emitted around 18 billion tons of CO2 this year roughly half of all global emissions.

You can't have a state government ripping out almost half a billion dollars and the Commonwealth put in 300 million and pretend it's a good news day.

Indeed, nearly a half billion Chinese lack access to clean drinking water, and the number of terminally polluted rivers and lakes grows daily.

A multi billion dollar industry

But when the bank announced a first half loss of 3.6 billion ( 4.7 billion), the sudden collapse of confidence was alarming, and nervous investors are asking whether there are similar time bombs ticking elsewhere.

For 12 billion we could cut malaria cases by more than a billion a year.

For 12 billion we could cut malaria cases by more than a billion a year.

There are serious plans to turn the Sahara desert s heat and sunlight into Europe s major power source, supplying energy to half a billion people.

I have a half brother.

Tom has a half brother.

Tom ran a half marathon.

Let's buy half a watermelon.

Let's buy half a watermelon.

Let's buy half a watermelon.

Let's buy half a watermelon.

In Greece, the problem is even worse, as the 86 billion ( 94 billion) plan now under discussion follows a 110 billion bailout in 2010 and a 130 billion rescue in 2012.

A Global Agenda for Seven Billion

One example is the Media Most group which, for reasons unknown, was financed by Gazprom to the tune of more than half a billion dollars!

Even before the recent food price spikes, an estimated billion people were suffering from chronic hunger, while another two billion were experiencing malnutrition, bringing the total number of food insecure people to around three billion, or almost half the world s population.