1. That will raise the country's total electricity bill by billions of yuan this year, adding weight to inflation.
2. The move follows economists'warning that hundreds of billions of dollars in illegal capital have entered the country in the garb of normal trade.
3. These statements have caused billions of dollars in unregistered capital or'hot money'to flood into the country on expectations of a yuan revaluation.
4. Previous talk that 26 listing companies planned to refinance billions of capital over stock markets had sparked market concern over liquidity and triggered panic selling.
5. Although Northern Rock requested substantial emergency funds at a penalty rate, the bank has said it had billions of pounds in cash at its disposal.
6. The census will survey 5 million corporate people, involve nearly 10 million statisticians and volunteers and cost billions of yuan.
7. The central government has not collected tax from Tibet for years, yet each year it invested billions of yuan in the construction and development of Tibet.
8. Developing nations want billions of dollars a year to help them adapt to a problem they say was initially caused by industrialised countries.
9. Deforestation is the biggest climate change culprit in much of the developing world, and industrial countries plan to pay billions of dollars to poor countries to stop deforestation.
10. The United States has invested billions of dollars in recent years to increase production in Angola through major oil companies Chevron and Exxon Mobil.