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Thousand in sentence

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I had gotten the first job I applied for in academia, land of a thousand crushed dreams.
And ultimately we can control the branching to mimic what we think the continents were like, and run it a thousand times, so we can estimate the parameters, to answer the question whether we are on the mark or not, at least to know the barriers of the problems.
The titanium's several thousand dollars, but the forms are very cheap.
They're easy to sequence: unlike a human, they, you know, have a thousand, two thousand genes; we can figure out what they are.
We should be up to a thousand in three centuries at the most, but my friend David Battisti in Seattle says he thinks a 100 years.
One hundred thousand people came together for the Manhattan Project and literally saved the world.
Four hundred thirty thousand Canadians, British and Americans came together, again, with very basic technology, and put a man on the moon.
And it turns out that that opening weekend, Nicholas Sparks sold more than a hundred thousand copies, which is an amazing number.
And cost: the average cost for a state to educate a preschooler is five thousand dollars a year.
Here's how you can help: for two thousand dollars, we can provide a child with UPSTART, a computer and internet, and that child will be part of the pilot that makes certain other children get UPSTART in the future.
People on Socotra, some of them still live in caves, and that is really exciting, because it means if a cave is prime real estate this century, maybe it was a few thousand years ago.
Here's where the soil comes in: there is about three thousand billion metric tons of carbon in the soil.
Produce from a large retail store is harvested before it's ripe to travel more than a thousand miles before it ultimately sits on your shelf roughly two weeks later.
It's only the last few hundred thousand years modern humans have been pursuing technology and civilization.
There are only five to six thousand known species, so a very large percentage of what is out there isn't really known.
And one Saturday morning at 3am, she got up, packed her rucksack and traveled more than a thousand kilometers, only to have a political argument with a stranger.
The second assumption is that the price of something is always equal to its value, which basically means that if you earn 50,000 dollars a year and I earn 50 million dollars a year, that's because I produce a thousand times as much value as you.
So, kites are more than a thousand years old, and the Chinese used them for military applications, and even for lifting men.
Our species can only be traced back in the fossil record to a few hundred thousand years ago.
For about a thousand dollars, you can build one yourself, equivalent to what the soldiers use in Iraq.
There's already several thousand video clips of combat footage from Iraq on YouTube right now, most of it gathered by drones.
The ancient Maya identified this roughly 584 day cycle more than a thousand years ago and it still accurately predicts when and where Venus will appear in the sky around the world.
Bacteria have been on the earth for billions of years; humans, couple hundred thousand.
Seven thousand languages are alive today, but few are recognized by their own governments or supported online.
Two thousand years later, we're still here.
So we shouldn't dismiss this because it's an enormous opportunity to use these sorts of results, or these random loose trials from the last thousand years about what has impacts on our health.
Sixteen thousand trees saved.
From a hundred thousand tournaments, gender only came out as the winning variable in about five percent of them.
Those wires carry 13 thousand amps when the machine is working in full power.
It is the basic, most fundamental food that we've had in the last ten thousand years.
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