How To Use Hundred thousand In A Sentence
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The blogosphere, meanwhile, is beginning to show signs of commercial acumen: "Lots of bloggers, over time, make a good living – perhaps a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year from advertising.
Author Don Tapscott on the growing influence of public participation
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Three hundred thousand corpses in sandy mass graves cry out that the war was just.
Tragedy of Tony Blair
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Here I should explain why over a hundred thousand miners were striking against the federal courts.
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Obviously they're all dead certs, and if (sorry, I mean when) all six come in this afternoon, you'll win about a hundred thousand.
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The vakas have sailed over a hundred thousand nautical miles with only one major maintenance fix.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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The West, from Rome to Britain, was called into action; the kings of Poland and Bohemia obeyed the summons of Conrad; and it is affirmed by the Greeks and Latins, that, in the passage of a strait or river, the Byzantine agents, after a tale of nine hundred thousand, desisted from the endless and formidable computation.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
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He seriously protested that the bow of Blandois was perfect, that the address of Blandois was irresistible, and that the picturesque ease of Blandois would be cheaply purchased (if it were not a gift, and unpurchasable) for a hundred thousand francs.
Little Dorrit
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In the sequel to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (which I just turned in to my editor, yay!), one character runs an organization that traffics in “godsblood”, which is exactly what it sounds like — small vials of blood drawn from willing gods.
Drugs and rock n’ roll «
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To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
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One does not commit the odd hundred thousand nicker, or even just the possibility of it, lightly.
GOTHIC PURSUIT
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On December 5, as dockworkers and cartage men on distant St. Pierre marked the last day of Prohibition with a funeral cortege led by French and American flags at half mast, Sam Bronfman was already sitting on the four hundred thousand gallons of whiskey in the Rossville warehouse that had been part of the deal.
LAST CALL
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I think at one stage he attempted to justify one of them to the New Zealand Parliament by saying it was not a gift but koha - a couple of hundred thousand dollars of koha, as I remember.
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The first general in feigned outrage tells the Fuhrer that they should exterminate one hundred thousand Jews.
Think Progress » Beck: Obama is ‘dividing the nation’ by reacting ‘so rapidly to Haiti.’
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It is no longer enough to service the insurance needs of a few hundred thousand cautious policyholders.
Times, Sunday Times
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And yet she's going to go on trial for allegedly monkeying around with a few hundred thousand dollars worth of stock.
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The cost of building the railway was estimated at over one hundred thousand pounds.
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Just a few hundred thousand couch potato members of the sports channel pay-per-view community, watching because there wasn't any football yet, or darts or speedway or boxing, getting value for their subscriptions, fat on the sofa in last year's Premier League football jersey, thick as you like, tweeting Bumble to say how much they fancied Lily Allen and googling "lbw" to find out why the man in the motorbike helmet had to go home when the ball only hit him on the leg.
Top stories from Times Online
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I was a rich heiress – I had, I believe, a hundred thousand pounds, or more, and twice as many caprices: I was handsome and witty – or, to speak with that kind of circumlocution which is called humility, the world, the partial world, thought me a beauty and a bel-esprit.
Belinda
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That is doubtless a very fine art which desolates countries, destroys habitations, and in a common year causes the death of from forty to a hundred thousand men.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The "Leda" of Leonardo, repainted from motives of prudery by the great-grandfather of Louis-Philippe, was bought at the sale of that ex-king's pictures in Paris, in 1849, for thirty dollars, restored to its primitive condition, and sold, we are informed, for one hundred thousand francs.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
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In the first place, I am convinced that not one man in ten thousand or in a hundred thousand is a genuine, chemical dipsomaniac.
Chapter 39
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But now with several hundred thousand more people, municipal services are stretched beyond belief.
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The Revolution Business" because the other jacket/cover images in the series were so much more blah; I can't scan "Berserker Lord" and derive anything meaningful from it except I won't like the book; and "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms" makes me think that Nielsen was channeling Stephan Martiniere, whose work I find unappealingly samey-samey
Book Cover Smackdown! Berserker Lord (Chaosbound) vs. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms vs. The Revolution Business
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A hundred thousand soldiers seems to have been the maximum any Hellenistic state was able to gather together for a decisive battle.
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Service -- that the hundred thousand ears adorning the anatomy of the human population were first shocked by the horrisonous banshee wail of the hooters.
The Siege of Kimberley
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League of Ireland clubs could then prostitute themselves at the feet of these new owners of British clubs and say they can also own a club here for just a few hundred thousand.
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In four days' time several hundred thousand 18-year-olds will be having a collective freakout.
Times, Sunday Times
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Houdini's diaries took up an entire shelf - about a dozen volumes, each boxed in an expensive leather slipcase, gold tooled - a treasure surely worth a few hundred thousand dollars.
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Meanwhile our birthrate is still frighteningly low, and several hundred thousand women of marriageable age have no chance of getting husbands.
As I Please
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A sleepy capital of a few hundred thousand people has mushroomed to a crowded city of 2 million.
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Eighty thousand dollars 'worth of cigars, it was estimated, were consumed in the city of New York in 1810; at that rate the present annual consumption would amount to more than _two hundred thousand dollars_.
An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health
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Vast changes in US agriculture have shrunk the number of full-time commercial farmers from millions to a statistically insignificant few hundred thousand.
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I'm not in a financial position to turn up my nose at several hundred thousand pounds.
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And as appeareth by your Agents wordes being at Varas, he and others sawe there so great abundance, that by report of diuers, you may bestow (if it were not for the Turkes) for a two hundred thousand pounds: besides silke of all colours died in graine, bound vp in pound waights, I thinke 15. of our ounces to their pound waight, and here sold for 23. shaughs, at 6.d. the shaugh, may be 11. s.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03
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The Alliance in its first show of strength drew a hundred thousand-strong crowd to a rally.
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Even if she kept her mouth shut, the ante would be upped: another hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, it would go on and on.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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The dreadful tale of the Kalmuck Tartars, in 1770, fleeing from their enemies, the Russians, over the desolate steppes of Asia in mid-winter; starting out six hundred thousand strong, men, women, and children, with their flocks and herds, and reaching the confines of
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
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A lakh is a hundred thousand, and a krore ten million.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
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Those "costly programs" are the same ones that resulted in thousands of people being cooped up in improperly prepared trailers that "outgassed" formaldehyde fumes, and that government "inability" has doomed at least a hundred thousand people to long-term exile from their homes.
Harry Shearer: Lessons Not Learned: Forget About Disaster Housing from FEMA
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On Tiridates, though it would seem hardly within belief, he spent eight hundred thousand sesterces a day, and on his departure presented him with more than a hundred millions.
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I have been behindhand with book buying 'cause of moving house, but I will very soon! be buying Magic Under Glass, Guardian of the Dead, and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.
What authors can and can't do (more on whitewashed covers)
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The haul is worth more a hundred thousand pounds and the hunt is on for the owners.
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It has been argued that these peoples may be genetically continuous with older groups that have inhabited the region for almost one hundred thousand years.
The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
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Roma language, oifficially Romani chib, consists of several dialects, such as the Vlax Romani spoken by an estimated 1.5 million people, followed by Balkan, Carpathian and Sinti dialects spoken by several hundred thousand people each.
IPS Inter Press Service
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The cost of building the railway was estimated at over one hundred thousand pounds.
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Three hundred thousand gathered in St. Peter's Square over the weekend, there to witness the rise to sainthood of Padre Pio, a friar who bore the stigmata, that is the marks of crucifixion.
CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2002
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She had hair made of strands of pure gold, and eyes like the hundred thousand sapphire blue irises that had encased Nighting Lyre.
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When Mantua fell, and Austria saw herself driven from Italy, she had called her ablest general, the Archduke Charles, from the Rhine, and given him an army of over one hundred thousand men to lead against Bonaparte.
The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte
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Okay, a megajoule is a million of them" seven hundred thousand foot-pounds.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
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A hundred thousand soldiers seems to have been the maximum any Hellenistic state was able to gather together for a decisive battle.
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Read in studio Five pubs worth seven hundred thousand pounds have been put up for auction by one of the big breweries.
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Moreover, this same officer, General Sheridan, many years after the close of the war, denounced several hundred thousands of his fellow citizens as "banditti," and solicited permission of his
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War
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They had six or seven hundred thousand feet of merchantable saw logs yarded up and ready to go.
KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
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The eight hundred thousand Gónds of the Góndwana are supposed to be members of the great autochthonal family of ancient India.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
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There's a picture forming - one hundred thousand people, in a field, cramming themselves full of barely digestible meat.
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A recent study compiled evidence from various parts of the world concerning sea levels during an interglacial period about four hundred thousand years ago.
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Cigarettes kill over a hundred thousand Britons every year.
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In the so-called life-care model, residents pay a large upfront deposit (usually at least a few hundred thousand dollars) plus a monthly fee that generally stays the same no matter how much care they need.
Searching for Security
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Congress had allocated General Sherman, whose brother John was a US senator, some five hundred thousand dollars for subsisting the needy Indians under the area encompassed by his Department of the Missouri.
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Then perhaps a hundred thousand people can change the trend, if they and their descendants labor for five hundred years.
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Of the several hundred thousand children who become blind every year, less than half survive to adulthood.
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Four hundred dollars and one hundred thousand yen.
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A hundred thousand people were uprooted from their homes and moved to this city in the middle of nowhere.
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Read in studio Five pubs worth seven hundred thousand pounds have been put up for auction by one of the big breweries.
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To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
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In the grand American tradition, Washingtonian evangelists poured out a lot of sulfurous rhetoric to lure something between three hundred thousand and six hundred thousand men out of the dungeon of inebriety.
LAST CALL
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In 1726, Joseph Bonnier's careful and frugal father died, leaving his twenty-four-year-old son with a fortune worth ten billion francs and a governmental position which paid, possibly unofficially, one hundred thousand écu, or five or six hundred thousand livres (an ecu, just before the Revolution, being equivalent to about $25 in 2006).
Archive 2008-05-01
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I'm not in a financial position to turn up my nose at several hundred thousand pounds.
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For each of us dies only once and Ruanda showed you can kill eight hundred thousand people with machetes - with two machetes if the queue is long enough.
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In four days' time several hundred thousand 18-year-olds will be having a collective freakout.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pond is at the height of its glory during the sexennial festival when the reflection of a hundred thousand lights around the temple provides a grand spectacle.
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Now, that man who is affable in public and who is irritable in private is making a fraudulent overissue of stock, and he is as bad as a bank that might have four or five hundred thousand dollars of bills in circulation with no specie in the vault.
The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony
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The Alliance in its first show of strength drew a hundred thousand-strong crowd to a rally.
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Two hundred thousand rice mutants are now available and have been mapped by the insertion of what are known as flanking sequence tags - small pieces of DNA or molecular tags that integrate into the rice genome.
Innovations-report
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In the United States alone, several hundred thousand tons of acetylene are produced every year, but its volatility renders it difficult to transport: It becomes dangerously explosive at about 30 psi (207 kilopascal), only about twice normal atmospheric pressure.
Science Blog - Science news straight from the source
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This island, known now as Japan, was called Cipango, and was supposed to be inexhaustible in riches, especially when the reports of Polo were confirmed by Sir John Mandeville, an English traveller in the time of Edward III., -- and with even greater exaggerations, since he represented the royal palace to be more than six miles in circumference, occupied by three hundred thousand men.
Beacon Lights of History
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Company upon trust, and sold at a great discount for ready money. [v] A scheme was proposed for coining two or three hundred thousand pounds of base money: [v*] such were the extremities to which Charles was reduced.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell
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Four hundred dollars and one hundred thousand yen.
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That diminished greatly after last year's storm, when several hundred thousand people were evacuated.
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Lodged goods and Tresure to the value of one hundred thousand pounds [2] which I desiere the Government may have the benefitt of, in order thereto I shall desiere no manner of liberty but to be kept prisonner on board such shipp as may be appointed for that purpose, and only give the necessary directions, and in case I faile therein I desiere no favour but to be forthwith Executed acording to my
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents
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The P.C. Company owned fleets of river-steamers and ocean-going craft, and, in addition to farming the sea, exploited a hundred thousand square miles or so of the land that, on the maps of geographers, usually occupies the white spaces.
THE STORY OF JEES UCK
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At present, the worldwide consumption amount of yeast extract reaches about hundred thousand tons every year and the applicated fields and range step up year by year.
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He never used any accompaniment except his own guitar when he sang, his third record sold two hundred thousand copies, and Hunnicut had his name featured on the placards that were nailed to the fronts of the dance halls and roadhouses where they played.
Half of Paradise
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One hundred thousand unamplified phage were rescued with Exassist helper phage in SOLR cells to generate a library in pSKII for EST sequencing.
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The haul is worth more a hundred thousand pounds and the hunt is on for the owners.
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We rated his fortune at about one hundred thousand dollars.
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You can see that with sev'al hundred thousand dolla's of deferred payments on what we have sold, most of which have been rediscounted in the East by the G.B. T.,
Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
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In many patents there is double the quantity of land expressed in the patent, whereby some hundred thousand acres of land are taken up but not planted, which drives away the inhabitants and servants brought up only to planting to seek their fortunes in Carolina and other places, which depopulates the country and prevents the making of many thousand hogsheads of tobacco, to the great diminution of the revenue.
Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699
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Several hundred thousand newly arrived cars and trucks have turned Tirana into a cacophony of novice drivers, congestion and accidents.
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The leaflet of the sago folded and tied side by side on the smaller midribs form the "atap" or thatch in universal use, while the product of the trunk is the staple food of some = hundred thousands of men.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2
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I'm not in a financial position to turn up my nose at several hundred thousand pounds.
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Two hundred thousand people are trafficked into this country for sexual labor every day.
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Then perhaps a hundred thousand people can change the trend, if they and their descendants labor for five hundred years.
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We are going to undertake a new project, the expansion of the petro chem, which is two hundred thousand tonne today the production is going to be four hundred thousand tones within two years.
Moneycontrol Top Headlines
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The hundred thousand or so claustrophobics banged their fists on the metallic walls while crying out for help, and a wall slid open from left to right, exposing some sort of movie screen.
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A developer who got planning permission to build a golf course and then dumped several hundred thousand tonnes of landfill on the site only ever intended to create an illegal tip, it was claimed today.
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Forces were already grouping several hundred thousand kilometers away.
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This in turn will have an impact on a few hundred thousand people, showing a clear long-term multiplier effect... and that is our goal.
C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: A Free Education
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Add to his government profile that his ministry started in Galilee, which was known as a hotbed for its antigovernment positions, and Jesus had the profile in the Homeland Security Office of the Roman Empire as a right-wing, Bible-believing, hate monger who needed to be on the “watch list,” like four hundred thousand Americans are right now in Washington, DC.
Can America Survive?
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Gunter and his unseen partners must have spent a hundred thousand pounds on the party, which climaxed with Simon standing on the bar to make a speech about showing the old brontosaurs of the major labels the doorway to extinction.
EVENING’S EMPIRE
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One does not commit the odd hundred thousand nicker, or even just the possibility of it, lightly.
GOTHIC PURSUIT
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And Iraq had bought a couple of hundred thousand of these tubes in the 1980s for rockets, and it didn't anodize them, and they corroded away.
CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2003
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I know nothing more stupidly bourgeois and commonplace than to spend a hundred thousand francs on a corbeille, when five thousand a year given to a young woman saves her much anxiety and lasts her lifetime.
A Marriage Contract
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The landholders could now be numbered by the hundred thousand, but so also could landless men.
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These scholars had the unenviable task of explaining why their patrons eventually sieged, overran, and sacked Carthage in a door-to-door killing spree that left only fifty thousand survivors out of an estimated population of seven hundred thousand.
David Durham explains his interest in Hannibal and refutes the historical concept of him as a brutish barbarian.
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In some instances the commission reached a hundred thousand dollars.
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Whereas the question arose after the death of the said Oliver H. Payne as to whether said gift of Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000.) did not operate as an ademption or satisfaction of said legacy of Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.), and the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, having examined into the facts and being advised upon said facts as they then appeared that they were legally entitled to the legacy, passed a resolution at a meeting of the
Board of Visitors minutes
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The next words say that each pile contains a lakh -- a hundred thousand -- gold mohurs or the equivalent of ingots.
KARA KUSH
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The population peaked at about one hundred thousand in 1924 then crashed, leaving a wreckage not only of animal life but of horribly overbrowsed rangeland as well.
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Madame Cornu, the widow of a Norman cattle-dealer and farmer-general, with a dropsy and two hundred thousand livres a year.
The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
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The British government bought five hundred thousand copies of Raine's works to supply the "tommies" at the front.
Zane Grey, Romancing the West
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A unit of magnetic field strength equal to one hundred thousandth ( 10 - 5 ) of an oersted.
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The music was as loud as a hundred thousand songbirds piping in the spring breeze.
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He is, Shorty exclaims, the "hi-yu skookum top chief of the whole caboodle," and the caboodle is 20,000 square miles of wilderness, home to a hundred thousand caribou hunted by a people using bone-barbed arrows and bone knives.
“I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....”
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Barry had turned down several hundred thousand dollars for a rematch with Holyfield immediately after the 1984 Olympics.
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The strength of the walls resisted an army of two hundred thousand Turks; their assaults were repelled by the sallies of the Greeks and their foreign mercenaries; the old resources of defence were opposed to the new engines of attack; and the enthusiasm of the dervis, who was snatched to heaven in visionary converse with Mahomet, was answered by the credulity of the Christians, who _beheld_ the Virgin
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
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His army in the warres is ten hundred thousande men, fiue hundred Elephantes, and horses, and Cameles, a wonderfull nomber, and this is but a meane preparacion.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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Jericho was a large city—according to some with one hundred thousand inhabitants—and the number of blind people in the subtropics is relatively high: about 1.4 percent of the population.19 This means that in Jericho, there would have been at least fourteen hundred blind people who had to earn a living by begging.
Modern Science in the Bible
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Crile's description: "over three hundred thousand fundamentalist Afghan warriors....
Sen. Fritz Hollings: Wasting Lives and Money
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Catholic religion that she put to death in various ways a hundred thousand men accused of Manichæism — “this being,” says the modest continuator of Echard, “the most impious, the most detestable, the most dangerous, the most abominable of all heresies, for ecclesiastical censures were weapons of no avail against men who acknowledged not the church.”
A Philosophical Dictionary
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He is, Shorty exclaims, the "hi-yu skookum top chief of the whole caboodle," and the caboodle is 20,000 square miles of wilderness, home to a hundred thousand caribou hunted by a people using bone-barbed arrows and bone knives.
“I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....”
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Besides, had not her own cousin, -- though a remote and distant one to be sure, the black sheep, the harum-scarum, the ne'er-do-well, -- had not he come down out of that weird North country with a hundred thousand in yellow dust, to say nothing of a half-ownership in the hole from which it came?
THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
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A sleepy capital of a few hundred thousand people has mushroomed to a crowded city of 2 million.
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Four hundred dollars and one hundred thousand yen.
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JFK saw it and laughed: "Just remember, a hundred thousand votes the other way and we'd all be coruscatingly stupid.
Coruscating on Thin Ice
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Later, operating out of the White House, he helped implement the Clinton "triangulation" strategy, honchoing the "Hundred Thousand Cops on the Street" and other programs.
THE NEW POWER PLAYERS
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a subsidy of four hundred thousand caroli, as the third part of the twelve hundred thousand granted by the states of the Netherlands, and the resistance of Ghent in opposition to the other three members of the province, will, of course, be judged differently, according as the sympathies are stronger with popular rights or with prerogative.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 02: Introduction II
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Animals a hundred thousand times smaller than any visible with the naked eye have been discovered; these animalculae, however, move, feed and multiply, establishing the existence of organs of inconceivable tenuity.
The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
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I'm not talking about the piddling few hundred thousand salary and couple of million pay-off a fat-cat boss gets for destroying a company in record time and sacking all its workers.
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I'm not objecting to the Food Museum, of course, but I am somewhat dubious about the prospect of a hundred thousand visitors per year.
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Over two hundred thousand auto workers are out on strike.
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I was a rich heiress -- I had, I believe, a hundred thousand pounds, or more, and twice as many caprices: I was handsome and witty -- or, to speak with that kind of circumlocution which is called humility, the world, the partial world, thought me a beauty and a bel-esprit.
Tales and Novels — Volume 03
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By the spring of 1993, the parish was donating nearly two hundred thousand dollars each year to charitable causes.
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After he had paid the eight hundred thousand on Mon-day, he had telephoned Lapiere to explain about the shortfall.
FINAL RESORT
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We rated his fortune at about one hundred thousand dollars.
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The non-profit advocacy group, Let Freedom Ring, is planning to spend several hundred thousand dollars to broadcast the commercial over several days beginning Tuesday, according to Colin Hanna, president of the organization.
Conservative Group to Air Anti-Obama Ads - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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To come up with an age, they used a technique known as paleomagnetic dating, which takes advantage of the flip-flop of Earth's magnetic field every several hundred thousand years.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Referring to ‘several hundred thousand’ soldiers as ‘the security business’ is an interesting way to euphemize a major commitment of U.S. troops.
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A hundred thousand marks, if a pfennig, and a face to turn after in the street!
Maurice Guest
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She just wanted some huge natural catastrophe to sweep through the bedroom and miraculously carry her two hundred thousand miles away.
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Two hundred thousand persons, who, in such an epoch, have understood the wickedness of the struggle for life, the filth of sexual relations, the horror of lyings-in, those are they who save the honour of the country," he thought.
En Route
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“I was once in debt to the full amount of three hundred thousand gold pieces; 402 and, being distressed thereby, I sold all that was behind me and what was before me and all I hent in hand, but I could collect no more than an hundred thousand dinars” — And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Originally, the equestrians were a burgess cavalry; but gradually all who possessed estates of four hundred thousand sesterces were liable to cavalry service, and became enrolled in the order, which thus comprehended the whole senatorial and non-senatorial noble society of Rome.
Ancient States and Empires
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When he died of cancer, a hundred thousand mourners viewed his bier.
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I am afraid that -- what between squeezing and heating -- she would flatten us all out into phosphatic fossils, about an inch thick; and turn Winchester city into a "breccia" which would puzzle geologists a hundred thousand years hence.
Madam How and Lady Why
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Rutun Sing, the father of Seobuksh, is said to have been a greater rack-renter, rebel, and robber than his son is, and together they have injured the estate a good deal, and reduced it from a rent-roll of one hundred thousand to one of forty.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II
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The clicking of their hooves was a part of the music, like a hundred thousand castanets.
The Ringworld Throne
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But the good mower who does things just as they should be done and have been for a hundred thousand years, falls into none of these fooleries.
The Mowing of a Field
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In the next year, Roche, which had all but abandoned iproniazid as an antitubercular, sold the drug to four hundred thousand presumably happy, or at least less unhappy, customers.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
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We rated his fortune at about one hundred thousand dollars.
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I'm not in a financial position to turn up my nose at several hundred thousand pounds.
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Yet our maternal mortality rate in this country is 13 per hundred thousand– more than two orders of magnitude higher than the fatal incident rate in scheduled air travel, and at least an order of magnitude higher than the fatal incident rate in general aviation private pilots and the like, which incudes a fair number of suicides as well.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Refusal to Consent to Caesarean Section as Neglect of the Child?
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The Society of the Internationale honeycombs Europe -- your police archives show you that -- and I tell you that, of the two hundred thousand soldiers of the national guard in Paris to-day, ninety per cent. are ours -- _ours_, soul and body.
The Maids of Paradise
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Also, I'm going to cut our slit down to a width of one kilocycle, if I can possibly figure out a way of working on that narrow a band, and I'm going to step up our shifting speed to a hundred thousand.
Skylark Three
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At the end of six days, another "barke" came by, from Lima, "in whiche he tooke an hundred thousand pezos of silver in barres.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
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_ Laureate of the Geographical Society, author of the first circumpolar periplus, and afflicted with the modest income of two hundred thousand dollars.
The Waif of the "Cynthia"
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There was, in reality, a person of the name of Chotard; but he was a man ruined by debts and debauchery; a fraudulent bankrupt who embezzled forty thousand crowns from the tax office of the farmers-general in which he held a situation, and who is not likely to have given up a hundred thousand crowns to the grandmother of the doctor in laws.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Turkey, have sent a hundred thousand surgeons provided with lancets, bistouries, and all sorts of instruments, adapted to cut off the morbid and gangrened parts; but the disease has only become more virulent.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
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If religion were a maladaptation, it should have been extincted over the hundred thousand years of our existence.
Steak or Savior
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A sleepy capital of a few hundred thousand people has mushroomed to a crowded city of 2 million.
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It has been argued that these peoples may be genetically continuous with older groups that have inhabited the region for almost one hundred thousand years.
The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
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Take off the price of the house, that's another hundred thousand.
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The Alliance in its first show of strength drew a hundred thousand-strong crowd to a rally.
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Moreover, this same officer, General Sheridan, many years after the close of the war, denounced several hundred thousands of his fellow citizens as "banditti," and solicited permission of his Government to deal with them as such.
Generals, Confederate States of America, Biography, Soldiers, Louisiana, Southern States, Army, Louisiana Infantry Regiment, 9th., History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Personal narratives, United States, Campaigns, Military Life, Reconstruction.
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He told us he knew we were going to sell millions of records, and that he wanted a hundred thousand dollars cash to serve as coproducer.
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State, will strive to keep the Indians as far as possible from its own borders; while powerful combinations of speculators will make their fight for the last acre of Indian lands with just as much rapacity as if they had not already, in Western phrase, "gobbled" a hundred thousand square miles of it.
The Indian Question (1874)
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Cigarettes kill over a hundred thousand Britons every year.
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Another hundred thousand copies of the novel have been struck off since last year.
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The four small light blue rectangles at the midpoints of the membrane perimeter are chip-scale refrigerators that cooled the cube and membrane to only a few hundred thousandths of a degree above absolute zero.
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He did not wait, but dowered them with a hundred thousand each, which sums lay in the Bank of Hawaii, drawing interest and awaiting their wedding day.
Chun Ah Chun
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With this he set off trotting, as he were a mule loosed from the mill, and presently came back, accompanied by Shaykh Tahir himself, who no sooner saw me than he returned to his house and gave the man an hundred thousand dinars which he took and went away blessing me.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Most people think that elephants are not near extinction yet, but they have declined to a couple of hundred thousand and will continue to decline.
Into Africa - a social history of the East African Safari
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In Venice, today a city of a hundred thousand inhabitants, there are twelve hundred priests.
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Three hundred thousand tons of cereals are needed to replenish stocks.
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Everything, in short, concurred to display the riches of the great monarch of Persia, whose immense power was further displayed by an army of two hundred thousand men which constituted his life guard.
Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers
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No politician will come courting us until I can say that we have several hundred thousand members.
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When he stood for aedile, the number of registered electors was some four hundred thousand; but now those rolls had been revised by the censors, and with the extension of the franchise as far north as the River Po, the electorate had increased to almost one million.
Imperium
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Turkey, have sent a hundred thousand surgeons provided with lancets, bistouries, and all sorts of instruments, adapted to cut off the morbid and gangrened parts; but the disease has only become more virulent.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Cigarettes kill over a hundred thousand Britons every year.
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It had a staggering seven hundred thousand members, a figure that counted more than half of the entire adult population.
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To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
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I want the cosmopolitan feel of a newspaper that I know is also read by several hundred thousand of my compatriots at least.
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($250,000.) to the University of Virginia should be in lieu of and in satisfaction of his said legacy of Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to said University, and the Board is now satisfied that the said gift did operate as an ademption or satisfaction of said legacy and that the University is not legally entitled to said legacy, and that it is its duty to renounce the same;
Board of Visitors minutes
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Yet, at the very same time, it has already appeared from your argument that twelve hundred thousand will command only one barouche; that is, a barouche will at one and the same time be worth twelve hundred thousand besoms, and worth only one fourth part of that quantity.
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2
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Certainly, this cannot be said to be an accurate description of the position of men who believe in the rule of a nation of one hundred and eighty millions by a small party of two hundred thousand or less -- or even by an entire class representing not more than six per cent. of the population -- and Lenine and his friends, recognizing the fact, decided to change the name of their group to the _Communist party_, by which name they are now known in Russia.
Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy
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Of his narrative pieces the most remarkable is his _Revolt of the Tartars_, describing the flight of a Kalmuck tribe of six hundred thousand souls from Russia to the Chinese frontier: a great hegira or anabasis, which extended for four thousand miles over desert steppes infested with foes, occupied six months 'time, and left nearly half of the tribe dead upon the way.
From Chaucer to Tennyson
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His fancy had sketched a pleasing picture of beautiful floating domiciles, moored under the banks of the river, and inhabited by a hundred thousand people in variegated costume; he recalled to memory the stories of the lofty pagodas lifting roof above roof, ... the snug cottages with the picturesque bridges and the comfortable Chinaman under the shade of a willow, with nothing to do but fish, all of which we have been accustomed to read, and pictures of which served to amuse us in our childhood ....
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
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At the time of this telling, one hundred and twenty-five billion years after your star, Sol, cindered to frozen rubble, the whole universe is a mere six hundred thousand parsecs wide, the distance from your Earth to the Andromeda galaxy.
Archive 2010-04-01
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To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
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Though joking apart and with an eye on why we admire the Austin Ambassador so damn much, that crude range of engines were all service friendly and able to hit a hundred thousand miles with the right amount of care.
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A hundred thousand people a month are dying of cold and starvation, and survivors live like shivering, scavenging wolves.
Times, Sunday Times
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The aboriginals of Taiwan number several hundred thousand.
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We rated his fortune at about one hundred thousand dollars.
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And now he, Ah Chun, the peasant, dowered his daughter with three hundred thousand years of such toil.
Chun Ah Chun
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My first few novels, including The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, are fantasy — but the next project on my slate is a YA cyberpunk novel.
FANTASY… IN… SPAAAAAACE!! «
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Of the several hundred thousand children who become blind every year, less than half survive to adulthood.
