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Destroying New York's Twin Towers cost several thousand lives.
There are several thousand drugs currently on the market, with a worldwide value of about $3 trillion.
We are unfortunate that we lost him after only a thousand days.
The Meltzer Commission noted that the IMF, with just one thousand or so professional staff, could not and should not try to run dozens of countries’ economic programs.
Several hundred thousand women are now alive because of effective anti-estrogen therapies.
If artists, art critics, and art buyers really had any interest in reducing the widening gap between the rich and the poor, they would be focusing their efforts on developing countries, where spending a few thousand dollars on the purchase of works by indigenous artists could make a real difference to the wellbeing of entire villages.
But Rome remained dominant for more than three centuries after the apogee of its power, and, even then, it did not succumb to the rise of another state, but suffered a death by a thousand cuts inflicted by various barbarian tribes.
Four thousand years ago, China developed a writing system that conveyed concepts both as idea and picture.
The West thus has an important role to play in the election, and is providing two thousand election monitors to help to ensure a free and fair vote.
Several thousand more Rohingya are waiting at the border, awaiting permission to enter the country.
Even Cameron has had to soften his tone, promising to accept a few thousand refugees, because he was moved “as a father” by the picture of a drowned Syrian boy.
Even if, as seems likely, several thousand soldiers remain, the number will be small and their role limited to advising and training Iraqi military and police forces and conducting missions against terrorists.
Forty-four thousand students are currently part of the Jesus Enrique Lossada programme, which would be implemented throughout Venezuela.
Colonel Muammar Qaddafi’s forces, on the ground and from the sky, have massacred hundreds – perhaps over a thousand – of Libyans protesting, at first peacefully, against the excesses of his regime.
Though it can paint no scenario in which this would ever occur, it not only drags its heels on further arms-reduction talks, but insists on keeping a thousand or so of its strategic nuclear weapons on launch-within-minutes alert status.
Others, like Macron, are beginning gloomily to accept that the eurozone’s current institutional framework and policy mix will ultimately lead either to a formal breakup or to a death by a thousand cuts, in the form of continued economic divergence.
The anger of northern Israel’s Arab citizens at the killing of their brethren across the border led to a boycott that cost Peres the few thousand votes he needed to win.
Escape from MeccaLOS ANGELES – The recent stampede in Mecca, in which more than a thousand pilgrims making the hajj were trampled to death, is a tragic but powerful reminder of the city’s prominence in the Muslim world.
Relying on the Japanese research, the World Health Organization estimates that over the entire lifetime of the population of several hundred thousand people exposed to ionizing radiation from Chernobyl, as many as 4,000 might die prematurely from cancer caused by the leaked radiation.
For a thousand years, states have regulated maritime transportation for the purpose of promoting safety at sea.
The verdict was not particularly successful in assuaging the protesters, several thousand of whom staged an anti-Putin demonstration in Moscow.
It is currently also more sensitive to employment risks than usual, because several thousand small factories in the textile and toy sectors have closed this year as a result of the impact of rising labor costs and the appreciating renminbi on profit margins.
For example, a thousand years ago, the Arab caliphates ruled over regions of great economic dynamism, and cities like Damascus and Baghdad were global hubs of culture, research, and innovation.
To back up its territorial claim, China relies on a map inherited from the Nationalist period – the so-called “nine-dashed line,” which extends nearly a thousand miles south of mainland China and sometimes as close as 40 or 50 miles from the coastline of states like Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines.
Three thousand people died in the first terrorist attack in America in the new century.
The leak killed an estimated 15,000-20,000 people, and left several thousand more with permanent disabilities.
There are around 35 births for every 1,000 girls aged 15-19, compared to fewer than ten per thousand in the northern European countries.
Today, the total approaches half-a-million, with a few hundred thousand more locked up on other prohibition-related offenses.
As the tallies from polling stations from around the country came into Nairobi, Odinga built up a lead of several hundred thousand votes.
Doing so would probably require keeping a few thousand troops deployed, continuing to provide intelligence, arms, and training to Afghan forces, and, in special situations, a readiness and ability to intervene narrowly but directly.
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