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Researchers estimate that a few thousand tons of iron would generate a plankton population capable of capturing several billion tons of carbon.
Over the years, an assortment of tribunals failed to identify more than a few thousand of the estimated 20 million illegal migrants.
As a result, whereas Hungary pays Gazprom $260 per thousand cubic meters of gas, Poland pays $526 – the highest price in the EU.
The history of humanity is only around six thousand years old, and yet it includes some ten thousand wars.
Poland has known a thousand years of wars with its neighbors.
The truth lies somewhere between the positions of today’s strident critics and indignant bankers, which may be why the moderately leveraged bank has been a feature of Western economies for a thousand years.
If a hundred thousand votes had been cast differently in those states, Trump would have lost the Electoral College and the presidency.
The Fish that ShrankA thousand years ago, the Norse settlers of my home city of York ate cod that weighed as much as eight kilograms.
Suppose you start with ten thousand individuals aged one year.
If there is only natural mortality, about one thousand of these individuals survive to reach age eight years.
But demand for asset management outstrips supply, and several thousand financial-management, trust, and consultancy companies now manage individual and corporate wealth.
Despite China’s lack of a comparative advantage for steel production, it has built approximately one thousand mills, with output accounting for roughly half of the global total.
Instead, the US seems to hope that it can use primarily economic levers to weaken China – a kind of death from a thousand cuts.
Naturally, many Africans are unconvinced that France is acting only to defend the lives of a few thousand of its citizens, rather than its economic and strategic interests, which are negligible for the former and null for the latter.
Often, a Secretary General can raise an awkward question but not dictate the appropriate answer;Annan’s historic speech to the General Assembly in 1999 on intervention set a thousand flowers blooming at think-tanks and among op-ed columnists, but it has not led to a single military intervention to protect the oppressed.
The Badr Brigade is composed of several thousand Palestinians, mostly long-time PLO activists.
The plague is spread principally by the bite of fleas, and a few thousand years ago, the bacterium acquired a genetic mutation that made it ferociously effective at spreading.
Just a few years before the appearance of the plague on Roman shores, the planet experienced one of the most abrupt incidents of climate change in the last few thousand years.
Theoretically, the ECB is also the indirect supervisor of all of the thousand or so smaller banks in the eurozone, but it will take some time before this becomes effective.
How can a few thousand miners, no matter how dedicated and violent, pose such a threat?
When the villain, the American military leader of the attack, plans to bomb flat the indigenous people’s sacred tree, he boasts that he will blow such a massive hole in their “racial memory” that they won’t come “within a thousand clicks” of the place again.
During Poland’s black protest, thousands more people protested in solidarity, from Berlin (where several thousand took to the streets) to Kenya (where about 100 people demonstrated).
How did Macron, a political novice seemingly fated to preside over a thousand and one shaky coalitions, score the unprecedented achievement of ushering some 400 deputies into the 577-seat National Assembly under the banner of what was still, just a few months ago, virtually a party of one?
A thousand questions immediately arise: How will those swept to power under Macron’s banner behave?
Don’t Do Stupid Economic StuffPARIS – On August 30, 2013, the United States was about to launch air strikes on Syria, where more than a thousand civilians had died in a sarin gas attack perpetrated by the army of President Bashar al-Assad.
They also have fewer than ten scientists, engineers, and technicians per thousand residents, compared to the global average of 40 – and 140 in the developed world.
Too many Muslims have forgotten – or never learned about – the brilliant scientific contributions made by Islamic scholars a thousand years ago.
It wants, instead, to end cross-border terrorism by changing Pakistan's long-held belief that it could "bleed India with a thousand cuts" at low cost to itself and thus bring about a change in the status of Kashmir as part of India.
Why should we withhold from the trouper of the Never Ending Tour (more than two thousand performances!) the dignity accorded without hesitation to the author of On the Road?
As Clinton's Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Gene Sperling once wrote, staff aides who tell Congressmen that estate tax repeal "...costing tens of billions of dollars... will benefit only a few thousand families" are answered "maybe so, but I think I met every one of them at my last fundraiser."
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