They continued the war, and lost two provinces and fivemilliards (one thousand millions of dollars).
The preliminaries were finally agreed upon: five milliards were to be paid, and Alsace and Lorraine transferred.
These milliards of celestial bodies have their respective movements for the purpose of stability, and mutually lean upon each other across the void which separates them.
In ten centuries more than thirty milliards of corpses have been committed to the earth and given back to general circulation under the form of various products,--water, gas, etc.
But what is the whole entire Milky Way, after all, compared with the milliards of stars which our mind contemplates in the bosom of the sidereal universe?
That universe is composed of several thousand milliards of suns, separated from each other by trillions of leagues.
Yes, the Earth we inhabit is now formed partly of the milliards of brains which have thought, the milliards of organisms who have lived.
No one is thinking of war, but yet milliards are wasted on military preparations, and, millions of men are under arms in Russia and in France.
Modern Europe keeps under arms an active army of nine millions of men," writes Enrico Ferri, "and fifteen millions of reserves, expending on them four milliards of francs per year.
About forty years ago, in the countries which now form parts of the postal union, threemilliards of letters, etc.
Were man to apply all his combative energy to the utilisation of the forces of nature, not merely could he live at ease, but there would be room in the world for milliards of additional human beings.
Finally, in the settlement of the Turkish question, the war damages borne by the French in Turkey should also be taken into account, which means an additional sum of about 2 milliards of francs.
At the outbreak of the war, the external debt of Turkey, including the Unified Debt and other loans, amounted to 3½ milliards of francs, whereas the Turkish revenue hardly exceeded 500 million francs.
To these sums should be added 2 milliards of francs for buying war supplies and war material, and the treasury bonds issued by Turkey for her requisitions, which cannot be cashed but may amount to about 700 million francs.
Beyond this, Turkey borrowed of Germany about 3½ milliards of francs.
These seven states had a debt of about two milliards and a half.
Five milliards of francs--that is, five thousand millions of francs, or one thousand millions of dollars in gold!
Well, we did not exactly know what five milliards of francs in gold or copper were.
According to the Braminical doctrine, indeed, there are successive cycles of activity and repose, each cycle being measured by countless milliards of centuries.
Mr. Darwin says he can set no limit to the changes of structure, habits, instincts, and intelligence, which these simple laws in the course of millions or milliards of centuries may bring into existence.
Vote for bonds for hay, straw, and meat, milliards and provinces for the Prussians!
No hard matter; only involving the sacrifice of Alsace and Lorraine, and five milliards as an indemnity for the trouble which the Prussians had taken in bombarding, devastating, and stripping us!
After several sentences of morality and indulgent philosophy the man in the waistcoats said, "Noble England, under the guiding hand of a great man, the immortal Pitt, has spent forty milliards of francs in opposing the revolution.
Long before those milliards can be raised and spent, the Third Republic will come to the bottom I believe, if not of the purse, certainly of the patience, of the French people.
It is computed that by means of three hundred millions in specie, thirty milliards of assignats will be taken out of circulation.
Vernier, the organ of the committee of finances, proposes to substitute money made of some metal in the place of 18 milliards of assignats in circulation.
The legislative body is employed in discussing a decree passed in the last sitting of the convention, which imposed a tax of six milliards on the landed property, and two milliards upon industry.
On the motion of Dubois Crancé, decreed, that three milliards of assignats be issued.
Fifteen milliards of new notes for the first exchange are already printed, but they think that twenty milliards will be necessary.
Suppose that instead of 60 chemical elements there were 60 milliards of them, that they were not some common, the others rare, but that they were uniformly distributed.
That a choice must be made is incontestable; whatever be our activity, facts go quicker than we, and we can not catch them; while the scientist discovers one fact, there happen milliards of milliards in a cubic millimeter of his body.
In milliards of milliards of ages another step will have been made toward uniformity, and these undulations will be ten times as gentle; the radius of mean curvature of our curve will have become ten times as great.
He did not waste his time even if he reckoned for pleasure: his operation took him only two minutes; it would have taken in all two milliards if a milliard men had had to do it over after him.
A value of about five milliards is required as compared with a value of 1-1/2 milliards imported before the war, and 5 milliards is about the total value of all raw material imported annually before the war.
German holdings of foreign securities were estimated at twenty milliards before the war and not more than one milliard now.
March by 2 milliards and estimated to increase further by 1-1/2 milliards per month on an average for the coming financial year.
The estimate of 4-1/2 milliards for pensions is the same as that of France and will probably be exceeded, though as yet less than half that is being paid.
Lange, the most recent historian of materialism, has revived the hypothesis, and represented the world as an instance of success which had been preceded by milliards of entire or partial failures.
But where are the milliards of mishaps which are said to have occurred?
Thus, the preliminary peace treaty of Versailles in 1871 stipulated that Germany should have the right to keep certain parts of France under military occupation until the final payment of the war indemnity of five milliards of francs.
After the Franco-German war, for example, the Germans in 1871 occupied a part of the territory of France until the final instalments of the indemnity for the war costs of five milliards of francs were paid.
The sum total is four milliards of pounds, or fortymilliards of roubles, and these debts are increasing every year.
Contemporary Europe keeps under arms nine millions of men," says Enrico Ferri, "and a reserve force of fifteen millions, at a cost of four milliards of francs a year.
More than eight milliards of assignats had been issued before the 9th Thermidor, and since that period thirty thousand millions had been added to that sum, already so enormous.
More than eight milliards worth of them had been issued.
How France is to be governed, and how the milliards are to be paid, are hard questions.
It seemed to him that he was floating on a thick blue cloud, upon which were scattered milliards and milliards of microscopic diamonds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "milliards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
