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The hedges had made close to half a billion dollars and stood to make more as the stocks continued to fall.

The company collects the thoughts, images and content of more than half a billion users - that data could be used for good.

But when was the last time you worried about smallpox, a disease that killed half a billion people last century and no longer is with us?

It was one of the first ad sites to go viral, getting more than 15 million hits in the first five days and nearly half a billion since.

And for too many of its half a billion active users, that carelessly assembled cohort known as the friend list has become a monster.

Armies of hopefuls pay out half a billion dollars every year trying to cure their uncurable colds .

The expanded European Union has a population of more than half a billion people, twice as big as the population of the United States.

International shipping and aviation could further reduce the global total by at least half a billion tonnes.

Half a billion years of tectonic activity has left Australia on the same side of the earth as China. Brazil is much farther away.

An aging population, an underfunded pension system, and half-a-billion workers who aren't covered could be a drag on economic growth.

Even then, vendors salivating for contracts in a nation with over half a billion subscribers could be disappointed.

Total savings in North America alone add up to half a billion dollars.

The firm was forced to offer a replacement for all affected chips, at a cost of nearly half a billion dollars.

In summer 2010, about half a billion eggs were recalled in the United States due to suspected salmonella contamination.

That may change with the arrival of more than half a billion dollars promised by the federal government to Great Lakes programs.

If the social network with now half-a-billion users ever formally launches an LBS app or service, it could be game over for everyone else.

However, it was later tainted by allegations the South paid the North nearly half a billion dollars to agree to the event.

Building an 80, 000-seat stadium for half a billion pounds, then scaling it back after a few weeks' use, seems close to madness.

This would be momentous, especially for India's half a billion, badly served women.

Additionally, its interest expenses have also been massively reduced, saving Ford around half-a-billion dollars every year.

During the Star Wars era, the Defense Department sank 10 yearsand a half a billion into a FEL.

This new research constrains the critical temperature to between one half a billion to just under a billion degrees.

In a country where some half a billion people have Internet access, many new terms are Internet-related.

ASEAN embraces ten countries with over half a billion people, and a collective economic output of over $1. 5 trillion dollars.

And the half-a-billion bicycles serving one-and-a-third billion people are reducing.

A recall gets bigger as more than half a billion eggs are pulled off the shelves.

When I got there, over half a billion dollars have been spent on research and development.

If it and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melt, sea levels will rise five to 10 meters, displacing half a billion inhabitants.

Mitchell is the story's flashy villain, a tax evader who paid himself half a billion dollars (in today's terms).

"Half a billion in profits is not going to save a company that is losing $1bn-plus a quarter in the US, " says the GM insider.

In 134 missions, the five space shuttles have ferried 355 astronauts half a billion miles in space, turning heroic feats into the routine.

Half a billion people in sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to electricity.

Mosquitoes are responsible for half a billion malarial infections and 1m deaths every year.

Historians now estimate that in Leeuwenhoek's day therewere only half a billion or so humans on Earth.

This year has seen Facebook's active users swell from around 350 million to over half a billion.

Cassava's something that half a billion people eat.

Millions have opened blogs, too. Mobile phone users also reached more than half a billion in September, according to the government.

For example, the CEO of Exxon recently retired and was paid nearly half a billion dollars as a going-away present.

JPMorgan, for example, puts the cost of its forex integration at half a billion dollars.

In 1966, when Ehrlich took that taxi ride, there werearound half a billion Indians.

It claims 124 million monthly users as of June 2010, and half a billion registered users.

There are half a billion active Facebook users.

You can buy half a billion today.

Half-a-billion different speed measurements are now received by TomTom every day to help build its database.

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More than 350 million of Facebook's more than half a billion users now actively send and receive 4 billion messages every day on the site.