But building a modern health system takes years and billions of dollars that Russia does not have.

We see them today because their light has taken billions of years to reach us.

It would take years, if not decades, and billions of dollars to clean up the city.

The mission is likely to take years and billions of dollars, they said.

It is expected to take 50 years and billions of dollars to clean up.

Building up a health information network will take several years and billions of dollars.

How many more years and billions of dollars will it take before we learn what does not work?

But along the way we've created an entire industry that takes billions of dollars from the public.

"But it's probably going to take them years and billions of dollars to learn the same thing."

It takes billions of years for light from a distant galaxy to reach the earth.