| query | quantifier If you talk about b_______ of people or things, you mean that there is a very large number of them but you do not know or do not want to say exactly how many.If you talk about billions of people or things, you mean that there is a very large number of them but you do not know or do not want to say exactly how many. Biological systems have been doing this for billions of years. He urged U.S. executives to invest billions of dollars in his country. He thought that it must be worth billions. |
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| word | billion |
| full-definition | other number A billion is a thousand million. ...3 billion dollars. This year, almost a billion birds will be processed in the region. quantifier If you talk about billions of people or things, you mean that there is a very large number of them but you do not know or do not want to say exactly how many. Biological systems have been doing this for billions of years. He urged U.S. executives to invest billions of dollars in his country. He thought that it must be worth billions. |
| inflections | billions |
| cefr-level | A2 |
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