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The cooperation has grown "to such a large scale that it eventually provided the US billions of dollars", Dayan said.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

Utilities around the country are planning to spend tens of billions of dollars to build new sources of power generation and high-voltage transmission lines to carry electricity from power plants over long distances.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Modelling by the NHS concluded that this would cost billions of pounds a year with a high of £3.9bn at the end of the second year.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

Over billions of years, various materials gradually filled parts of the channel.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

Evolution, however, has had billions of years of practice.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan