Nearly 11 million people came to Broadway last year, spending a half-billion dollars on tickets alone.

The company lost a half-billion dollars in the first nine months of 1995 alone.

More likely, they saw an easy way to make the budget deficit look almost a half-billion dollars smaller.

In all Gates supervised the distribution of about a half-billion dollars.

Washington earned a tidy half-billion dollars on the deal - Mexico paid up early only because the interest rates were so high.

He expects that nearly a half-billion dollars will change hands at the event.

"The combination of the two creates a company that has a half-billion dollars in systems software sales."

The league has said that its 30 teams lost almost a half-billion dollars in the last two seasons.

So where will Morgan find the extra half-billion dollars a year in profits it needs to satisfy the market?

Students from the three states would lose about a half-billion dollars in education loans and grants.