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Thousand in sentence

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So he occupied a bed for two weeks that cost over a thousand euros a day.
Nanotechnology allows us to shrink the parts that make up the detector from the width of a human hair, which is 100 microns, to a thousand times smaller, which is 100 nanometers.
One enzyme can activate a thousand of these chemical reactions in an hour.
Ten thousand times over a period of a year.
I come from an island where many of us like to believe there's been a lot of continuity over the last thousand years.
It's a special kind of material that, when you add water, it will swell up enormously, maybe a thousand times in volume.
I'm on the summit, about to rappel down the face with over a thousand feet of rope to spend the day practicing.
It's also hot, huge and unruly, made up of 17,000 islands, where people speak close to a thousand languages.
It has sensors in it that are essentially the same that are in your cell phone: accelerometers, gyroscopes, and when someone is struck in the head, it can tell you how their head moved at a thousand samples per second.
Which is wonderful, because it means every day I'm making some new discovery, and in the process, looking around the corner and seeing the hundred thousand things I'll never know.
This is in fact an incredibly large number, because what we really need in order to pick up something early enough to do something about it, to do something meaningful about it, well, we need to pick up tumors that are a thousand cells in size, and ideally just a handful of cells in size.
The hall seats two-and-a-half thousand people.
Two-and-half thousand people turned up.
A thousand years later, a mammoth died in southern Germany.
About a thousand years ago, at the height of the Islamic Renaissance, three brothers in Baghdad designed a device that was an automated organ.
Is it a thousand?
And the fact that we can now do genetic modifications that used to take years and cost millions of dollars in a few weeks for a couple thousand bucks, to me as a scientist that's fantastic, but again, at the same time, it opens the door to people going too far.
And then the Agricultural Age lasted several thousand years.
Multiply that times over a thousand.
Now, these familiar sensations are obviously the result of standing up in front of a thousand of you and giving a talk that might be streamed online to perhaps a million more.
So that's a thousand or a million times as much energy that that uses compared to the microbial fuel cell.
Instead of putting 10 or 100 out into the environment, having to track them, and then when they die, collect them, you could put a thousand, a million, a billion robots into the environment.
Perhaps we should lock up our concepts of race in a time capsule, bury them and dig them up in a thousand years, peer at them with the clearly more enlightened, raceless versions of ourselves that belong to the future.
A thousand years ago, just food and shelter was enough.
I knew how great it was going to be a thousand feet in the air.
Because I ended up thanking over a thousand people.
A poll might speak to a couple hundred people, maybe a thousand, or if you're L'Oreal, trying to sell skin care products in 2005, then you spoke to 48 women to claim that they work.
More than six thousand light years from the surface of the earth, a rapidly spinning neutron star called the Black Widow pulsar blasts its companion brown dwarf star with radiation as the two orbit each other every 9 hours.
All of humanity, probably, is descended from a thousand people who left Africa roughly 70,000 years ago.
So in the literal way, men rule the world, and this made sense a thousand years ago because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival.
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