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Thousand in sentence

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At that time, a thousand questions came to mind, from, "How could a one-month-old baby be so unfortunate?"
And mosquitos multiply endlessly in one of their favorite manmade nurseries – rubber tires, which last for almost a thousand years.
Six thousand miles of road, 600 miles of subway track, 400 miles of bike lanes and a half a mile of tram track, if you've ever been to Roosevelt Island.
Maybe if I did little, a couple hundred thousand people would read it, and that's great already.
But even better than this is that every day between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m., free of charge, the CERN cafeteria comes with several thousand scientists and engineers, and these guys basically know the answers to everything.
It would take two or three thousand bombs.
So there are things that would literally make things a thousand times worse.
You use gravitational flybys, slingshots, where you pass by a planet at very low altitude, a few thousand kilometers, and then you get the velocity of that planet around the sun for free.
The vivid details of Nick's two-year affair unfold in front of her in real time, And it made me think: Affairs in the digital age are death by a thousand cuts.
Now, this building had to receive two and a half thousand really highly strung thoroughbred horses that were coming off long-haul flights, highly jet-lagged, not feeling their finest.
As a consequence, where a film script is about 100 pages, an interactive script like this is between four and five thousand pages.
But, if you pit 1,000 humans against 1,000 chimpanzees, the humans will win easily, for the simple reason that a thousand chimpanzees cannot cooperate at all.
And that's when the emails started pouring in, sometimes as many as a thousand a day.
If you can reduce the initial response by one day, you can reduce the overall recovery by a thousand days, or three years.
There were just a few thousand terrorists.
But a blog post might get a couple hundred views at the most, and those were usually just my Facebook friends, and I figured my article in the New York Times would probably get a few thousand views.
And so after the spring, after they raise their young, they then fly thousand of miles over the Gulf of Mexico into Central and South America.
In London, as late as the early 19th century, there might be four or five thousand people to see a standard hanging.
In the thousand years since Arthur first appeared in a Celtic poem, his story has transformed over and over to reflect the concerns of his chroniclers and their audiences.
Four hundred thousand.
The last time, the camp has grown, maybe four or five thousand people.
Circle has got this very simple system that underpins it, enables a small local team to support a membership of up to a thousand.
Two to the power of 10, meaning that you multiply two by itself 10 times, is one thousand and 24 thousandths of a centimeter, which is a little bit over one centimeter.
Albatrosses frequently fly six, sometimes ten thousand miles over several weeks to deliver one meal, one big meal, to their chick who is waiting for them.
And for a thousand years, the fate of Europe depended on them.
We walked, each of us, three months, two and a half thousand kilometers.
So here I am washing two and a half thousand dead, big, bloody cow bones.
It took over a thousand years before the Arab scientist, Alhazen, figured out that the old, Greek theory of light couldn't be right.
Four thousand years is a long time.
Everything must seem so fragile to you since the scale of your strength has expanded one thousand times.
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