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There are
thousands
of these blue dots all over the county.
Despite centuries of animosity, decades of violence and
thousands
of people killed, 1998 saw the conclusion of an historic agreement.
There are
thousands
of suppliers in there."
These crude tools were around for
thousands
of centuries, until around 1.4 million years ago when Homo erectus started shaping single, thin stone blades, sometimes rounded ovals, but often in what are to our eyes an arresting, symmetrical pointed leaf or teardrop form.
Over tens of
thousands
of generations, such skills increased the status of those who displayed them and gained a reproductive advantage over the less capable.
Or, as we speak now, hundreds of
thousands
of Congolese women are getting raped and mutilated.
Then they irradiate our food, trying to make it last longer, so it can travel
thousands
of miles from where it's grown to the supermarkets.
And to make a long story short, in the last couple of years now,
thousands
of people have begun to walk parts of the path of Abraham in the Middle East, enjoying the hospitality of the people there.
And I think the reason it has a sting is because
thousands
of years of history don't reverse themselves without a lot of pain, and that's why I talk about us all going through this together.
And we were doing so for
thousands
of years, whether it's when we hunted in packs, or farmed in cooperatives, before this big system called hyper-consumption came along and we built these fences and created out own little fiefdoms.
So my co-author, Roo Rogers, and I have actually gathered
thousands
of examples from all around the world of collaborative consumption.
But the way coal is mined right now is different from the deep mines that her father and her father's father would go down into and that employed essentially
thousands
and
thousands
of people.
My one year turned into six years:
Thousands
of stories, hundreds of long interviews, focus groups.
And then I got excited when it started getting tens of hits, and then I started getting excited when it started getting dozens and then hundreds and then
thousands
and then millions.
And they were able to get tens of
thousands
of, primarily, women, some men, in the streets to bring about change.
One of the things that made this campaign work is because we grew from two NGOs to
thousands
in 90 countries around the world, working together in common cause to ban landmines.
And the Canadian Minister of the Interior wrote this at the time:
"Thousands
of pack horses lie dead along the way, sometimes in bunches under the cliffs, with pack saddles and packs where they've fallen from the rock above, sometimes in tangled masses, filling the mud holes and furnishing the only footing for our poor pack animals on the march, often, I regret to say, exhausted, but still alive, a fact we were unaware of, until after the miserable wretches turned beneath the hooves of our cavalcade.
They've come
thousands
of miles on a perilous trip, risked life, health and property, spent months of the most arduous labor a man can perform and at length with expectations raised to the highest pitch have reached the coveted goal only to discover the fact that there is nothing here for them."
And the reality of the society that we're in is there are
thousands
and
thousands
of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like.
But my parents live
thousands
of miles away, so they just don't get to see each other that often.
Widows in India like my grandmother,
thousands
of them, live in a city called Vrindavan.
And so we can look at literally hundreds of
thousands
of features at once out of that drop of blood.
For 10 years, unfortunately we have found ourselves reporting images of destruction, images of killing, of sectarian conflicts, images of violence, emerging from a magnificent piece of land, a region that one day was the source of civilizations and art and culture for
thousands
of years.
Just the wording of the badging, or how many points you get for doing something, we see on a system-wide basis, like tens of
thousands
of fifth-graders or sixth-graders going one direction or another, depending what badge you give them.
Deb Roy: This moment and
thousands
of other moments special for us were captured in our home because in every room in the house, if you looked up, you'd see a camera and a microphone, and if you looked down, you'd get this bird's-eye view of the room.
There are tens of
thousands
of miles of dewatered streams in the United States.
So they're crossing
thousands
of kilometers in a fraction of a second, and as they do so, they not only curve space, but they leave behind in their wake a ringing of space, an actual wave on space-time.
Hundreds and
thousands
of young people around the world can break through, and can make this a better world.
We started selectively breeding animals many, many
thousands
of years ago.
A 22-year-old individual operating alone,
thousands
of miles from me, has got to communicate to me with confidence.
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