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Numerals


 * $½ billion to $1¼ billion (note full figure with second fraction); $1¼ to $1½ billion
 * three-quarters of a billion dollars
 * 5 or 10 billion dollars' worth

Related numbers appearing at the beginning of a sentence, separated by no more than three words, are treated alike.


 * Fifty or sixty more miles away is snowclad Mount Everest.
 * Sixty and, quite often, seventy listeners responded.

but Fifty or, in some instances, almost 60 applications were filed.