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over a billion people vs over billion people

The correct phrase is "over a billion people." The article 'a' is necessary before 'billion' to indicate a specific quantity of people. Without the article, the phrase 'over billion people' is incorrect.

Last updated: March 27, 2024 • 572 views

over a billion people

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to indicate a specific quantity of people, which is more than one billion.

Examples:

  • Over a billion people watched the event live.
  • The company has a reach of over a billion people worldwide.
  • There are over a billion people living in China.
  • The campaign aims to reach over a billion people with its message.
  • The app has been downloaded by over a billion people.
  • Islam is the faith of over a billion people.
  • The finals will be broadcast to over a billion people around the world, live.
  • The finals will be broadcast to over a billion people around the world, live.
  • whereas extreme poverty affects hundreds of thousands of men, women and children throughout the world, and over a billion people live on less than a dollar a day,
  • whereas poverty has increased throughout the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where over a billion people live in extreme poverty and millions of people die every year because of lack of food, health care, access to water and decent living conditions,
  • Over a billion people in the world live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than a dollar a day.
  • Now is an excellent time for the newly-enlarged and 450-million-strong European Union, which has been reinvigorated by an influx of new countries, to build links with the Indian economy of over a billion people.
  • Over a billion people all over the world will have their eyes on us tonight as the ball drops, so I'd say that qualifies as a very big night.
  • As we heard yesterday, there's over a billion people hungry.
  • In Asia alone, it will be over a billion people.
  • Today, over a billion people use the telephone for a few minutes a day.
  • They have over a billion people in this country, but they have 35,000 local doctors who report paralysis, and clinicians, a huge reporting system in chemists.

over billion people

This phrase is incorrect in English.

  • And over 2 billion people have moved to the cities.
  • Tom Cruise has introduced - LRH technology to over one billion people of Earth.
  • As we heard yesterday, there's over a billion people hungry.
  • Over one billion people are living in extreme poverty.
  • Over one billion people visited the cinema in the EU in 2004, a figure not recorded since 1990.
  • Islam is the faith of over a billion people.
  • Over two billion people- almost a third of the world's population- still depend on charcoal.
  • And with all of these declines we have the near exponential population growth where by 2030 there might be over 8 billion people on this planet.
  • The finals will be broadcast to over a billion people around the world, live.
  • In Asia alone, it will be over a billion people.
  • So it turns out that today, there are over 1.2 billion people learning a foreign language.
  • Over 2.5 billion people in the world today do not have proper access to water and sanitation.
  • Today, over a billion people use the telephone for a few minutes a day.
  • The finals will be broadcast to over a billion people around the world, live.
  • Over one billion people on planet Earth do not know how to read and write.
  • These are victims of modern slavery, due to hunger and extreme poverty, which affects over 1 billion people worldwide.
  • There are currently over 6 billion people on the planet, in the next 25 years this will grow by another 2 billion.
  • Over a billion people all over the world will have their eyes on us tonight as the ball drops, so I'd say that qualifies as a very big night.
  • Mr President, according to WHO statistics, over 1 billion people are overweight, and over 300 million are obese.
  • The concert, on the thirteenth of July, is expected to be watched by a global television audience of over two billion people.

Alternatives:

  • over a billion people
  • more than a billion people
  • in excess of a billion people
  • above a billion people
  • billion people or more

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