おく
Meanings
Numeric
1. 10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (10 in total)
100,000,000; one hundred million
10,000,000,000; ten billion
1,000,000,000; billion
Examples (22 in total)
There are billions of stars in the sky.
Steel production reached an estimated 100 million tons last year.
The human body is composed of billions of small cells.
One billion people speak English.
Our company has annual sales of a billion yen.
There are more than six billion people in the world.
The earth came into existence about five thousand million years ago.
The world's population recently passed 7 billion.
A Japanese businessman bought the artwork for 200 million yen.
I sent about 2.2 billion spam emails over a period of around one and a half years.
The company suffered a loss of one billion yen last year.
The company incurred a deficit of $400 million during the first quarter.
Foreign direct investments in China amounted to $3 billion last year.
Four hundred million people speak English as their first language.
Japan's exports to the entire world topped $314 billion in 1998.
The plan announced Tuesday calls for $54 billion in tax cuts.
The generous dentist contributed some two billion yen to charity.
The company's profit amounted to $250 million before tax.
Japan guaranteed a 2 billion yen aid package to developing countries.
According to a survey, 1 billion people are suffering from poverty in the world.
For the other 600 million people, English is either a second language or a foreign language.
In the U.S., as many as 216 million firearms are said to be in private hands.