billions and even trillions of dollars, pounds, euros etc. It’s worth noting, however, that these words do not have a universally-agreed meaning. What one person means by billion can be very, very different from that assumed by another. ...
really!), and $1 billion is 40,000 inches (that's 0.63 miles high: much more impressive!), $1 trillion in $100 dollar bills is 40,000,000 inches high, which is 631 miles. Suddenly Arnault's and Elon's fortunes seem smaller, although one wonders whether we'...
UK.Last year, Nomura paid [pounds sterling]1.2 billion for the Inntrepreneur and Spring Inns pub chain which includes the Coach & Horses in London's Soho, favourite haunt of the late writer Jeffrey Bernard.Britain's leading shops and 'institutional' stores have proved a magnet to foreign ...
Americans started to eat more popcorn again — more than one billion pounds each year!1~2题完成句子;3题简略回答问题;4题找出并写下第一自然段的主题句;5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。1. People made popcorn by putting corn kernels ___ near a fire in the past.2. The first poppers were inven...
I respect my mother so much as she never treats me as a child, but as an equal. She gives me the freedom to make mistakes and to learn from them all. Unlike friendships that can fade or break, I know I'll always be connected to my mother no matter what I face. She is not ...
Inflation has been at its highest rate for three decades, and it’s worrying that 52% of savers don’t realise it’s eating away at millions of pounds sitting in low-interest-paying accounts. “Understanding the effects of inflation is crucial to knowing how much money you have in real te...
Since 2006, he’s donated an impressive $37 billion! He’s said that he wants to donate 99% of his fortune. Much of his giving has been towards The Bill and Melina Gates Foundation. The foundation is known for its anti-poverty and health initiatives, like malaria prevention and polio vac...
If we want to add up how much money there is in the world, a good place to start would be counting all the notes and coins out there – in people’s wallets and money boxes and in cash machines. Let’s start with pounds. There is about£84 billion(or 84,000,000,000) of Briti...
Bats actually have good eyesight -- they just don't need it much. Tom Walker/Getty Images Bats aren't blind. They're not even a little nearsighted. What they do have is exceptionally acute hearing. They also possess sonar so sophisticated, it tops that used by the U.S. military [...
Last week, the BBC broadcast 'The Great Gangster Film Fraud', a feature-length documentary which told the true story of an attempted scam by two "filmmakers".