• Obama sent in more than fifty thousand additional troops, and, for thirteen months, Petraeus himself led the effort.

    NEWYORKER: General Principles

  • But the violence in prisons remained unchanged, the costs were phenomenal (in the United States, they reach more than fifty thousand dollars a year per inmate), and the public outcry became intolerable.

    NEWYORKER: Hellhole

  • On Election Night, Dickson fell about a thousand votes short of victory in her district, which has a population of more than a hundred and fifty thousand.

    NEWYORKER: State for Sale

  • In the first half of 2009, it sold more than two hundred and fifty thousand copies.

    NEWYORKER: Confounding Fathers

  • It means equipping more than three hundred and fifty thousand Afghan soldiers and policemen with guns, uniforms, Humvees, barracks, gasoline trucks, food, helicopters, hospitals, and spare parts.

    NEWYORKER: After America

  • By 1920, there were seven thousand federal extension agents, working in almost every county in the nation, and by 1930 they had set up more than seven hundred and fifty thousand demonstration farms.

    NEWYORKER: Testing, Testing

  • Though Google has more than ten thousand employees about fifty new ones are hired each week and a market capitalization of more than a hundred and fifty billion dollars, the company cultivates the air of a college campus at its headquarters, in Silicon Valley.

    NEWYORKER: Google��s Moon Shot

  • More people than ever have taken part - fifty-thousand in all.

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  • In just one short year, the White House has received more than three million signatures from the public on over fifty thousand petitions.

    WHITEHOUSE: Our Top Stories

  • Most of them are going to graduate twenty to fifty thousand dollars in debt, much more than they would pay to go to one of the many Commonwealth Campuses across Pennsylvania.

    FORBES: Understanding the Outrage at Penn State Over the Firing of Joe Paterno

  • She has a reputation for reserve: for being likable but shy and thin-skinned, and not at all comfortable with the personal impact of having created a modern myth, sold four hundred and fifty million books, and inspired more than six hundred thousand pieces of Harry Potter fan fiction, a total that increases by at least a thousand stories a week.

    NEWYORKER: Mugglemarch

  • Seven hundred and fifty thousand jobs were vanishing each month -- more than the entire population of Vermont was losing its job every single month when I was sworn in.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Addresses Business and Tourism Leaders

  • Known for its intricate wall mosaics and a fifty-four-foot dome covered with more than twenty-eight thousand tiles, the landmark building also features a 2, 753-seat main theatre, three Masonic lodge rooms, and four M.

    NEWYORKER: City Center

  • They commute not only from Perth but from Sydney, Melbourne, New Zealand, Bali. (Bali is closer to Perth than Sydney is.) They make excellent money: a truck driver can earn more than a hundred thousand dollars a year, and an experienced welder, a hundred and fifty thousand.

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