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| Subject | English | Russian |
| gen. | a thousand million | тысяча миллионов |
| gen. | a thousand million | миллиард |
| brit. | thousand million | биллион |
| busin. | thousand million | миллиард |
| gen. | thousand millions | тысяча миллионов (To Americans and the French, a billion means a thousand millions (1,000,000,000, or 10 to the ninth, what some British call a milliard, a term that seems never to have been widely accepted). TG Alexander Demidov) |
| Makarov. | traffic in illicit drugs was now worth some 500 thousand million dollars a year | рынок нелегальной торговли наркотиками составлял теперь около 500 миллиардов долларов в год |