31.   Experts predict that solving the problem will cost billions of dollars and will rival the efforts to control smog.

32.   Factories, known in the industry as fabs, usually cost billions of dollars to build.

33.   Finding and defusing all the mines in Cambodia would cost billions of dollars.

34.   Gilbertson said it would cost billions of dollars to eliminate all toxins from the Great Lakes.

35.   German companies increasingly fear that the lawsuits could cost them billions of dollars and would expose them to torrents of horrifying publicity.

36.   How do otherwise intelligent people plot a long-term construction program costing billions of dollars and ignore the inevitability of inflation?

37.   If approved, the Yucca Mountain repository will cost billions of dollars, but the proposed storage facility also has some severe limits.

38.   If management had begun the season with replacement players, they stood an odds-on chance of losing another lawsuit that could cost them billions.

39.   In the United States and Russia, the cleanup will last well into the new millennium and cost countless billions of dollars.

40.   Initiatives to reduce class size and revamp teacher education could cost billions more.