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For their work, however, they receive as wages a quantity of goods of the value of only 10 or 12 milliards.

From The life and teaching of Karl Marx by Beer, M.

In France, in the former, in 1857, almost 36 milliards of francs; in the latter, in 1864, 13 milliards.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

M. Wolowski said: The sum total of the precious metals is reckoned at fifty milliards, one-half gold and one-half silver.

From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by Jones, John P. (John Percival)

At one of the sittings it was computed that about two milliards of francs belonging to German subjects are buried in Italian undertakings or in house or landed property.

From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris

Neptune is separated by a distance of four milliards, four hundred million kilometers from the solar center.

From Astronomy for Amateurs by Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice)