• He said past history suggests "it will get out" as there had been more than a thousand cases of people being infected in labs with the highest standards and the 1977 outbreak of flu may have been connected to a Russian facility.

    BBC: Controversial bird flu work resumes

  • Several hundred thousand of its hungry people are in dangerous, squalid camps outside the city.

    ECONOMIST: Ethiopia and Somalia

  • Janesville, Wisconsin, where Ryan was born and still lives, is a riverfront city of sixty-four thousand people in the southeast corner of the state, between Madison and Chicago.

    NEWYORKER: Fussbudget

  • John, John was putting up the figure that, to a thousand, you've got to get gains of a thousand to satisfy people, according to John.

    BBC: IAIN DUNCAN SMITH, MP CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER

  • "I think there is in excess of a thousand people here today, " she said.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • That in turn means that a sample of a thousand people can represent 200 million.

    CNN: To a pollster, less is more

  • The first convoy left for Riga on January 9, 1942: a thousand people, of whom 105 would survive.

    NEWYORKER: Broken Record

  • Born in Haifa, he lives in Karnei Shomron, a settlement of six thousand people, in the West Bank.

    NEWYORKER: The Party Faithful

  • Barack Obama led a parade of several thousand people from the pasture, where he held an earlier rally down to the steak fry.

    NPR: Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Stump in Iowa

  • An audience of several thousand people, who packed a cavernous hall for a talk billed as "The View from Inside Rainn Wilson's Brainstem, " laughed along.

    CNN: Rainn Wilson: "The Internet is the future of spirituality"

  • You are in the middle of the city, part of an urban life that was as much a target of the terrorists in 2001 as the lives of three thousand people.

    NEWYORKER: Shaping The Void

  • Every one of those thousand people deserves to live.

    BBC: South: Health dilemma

  • Then he narrowed the list to the top five per cent of spenders just five thousand people accounted for almost sixty per cent of the spending and he began parsing further.

    NEWYORKER: The Hot Spotters

  • Thiel moves fast: the next day, at TechCrunch Disrupt, an annual conference in San Francisco, he announced the Thiel Fellowships: twenty two-year grants, of a hundred thousand dollars each, to people under the age of twenty.

    NEWYORKER: No Death, No Taxes

  • According to Dean Buonomano, in his excellent book Brain Bugs, the majority of people give an answer of four thousand, instead of the correct answer of 3100.

    FORBES: What Homer Simpson Can Teach Oncologists About Math

  • At the FDA they can and do insist that the new treatment be tried out of a few thousand, a few tens of thousands, of people and then we look at how many die from the treatment and how many are made better from it.

    FORBES: Posner's FDA for Financial Innovation: A Truly Terrible Idea

  • The lava flooded a two-hundred-and-fifty-square-mile area, requiring the evacuation of two hundred thousand people.

    NEWYORKER: The Climate Fixers

  • Every year at the end of July several thousand people descend on Iowa to ride their bikes across this corn-belt state.

    WSJ: A Ride Across Iowa

  • In her childhood, Independence was a town of some eleven thousand people, but its population has declined to about nine thousand.

    NEWYORKER: The Contrarian

  • In 2004, Carolina Izquierdo, an anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, spent several months with the Matsigenka, a tribe of about twelve thousand people who live in the Peruvian Amazon.

    NEWYORKER: Spoiled Rotten

  • Seventy-thousand people, scores of expensive exhibits, and most importantly, an intriguing mix of ambitious start-ups (Marketo, Elequo, and the slightly older Box and Okta) with giant corporations such as General Electric and Virgin America.

    FORBES: Tipping Point Alert

  • She had no idea what she was getting into when she left Hawaii no idea that only months before she arrived Indonesia had suffered a failed but brutal coup and the killing of several hundred thousand people.

    NEWYORKER: The Conciliator

  • He was returning to the city, his birthplace, for the first time since retiring from the agency, last December, and he was met by a crowd of nearly a thousand people, including artists, writers, and citizens who had never before been involved in politics.

    NEWYORKER: The Contenders

  • The ranking was determined by calculating the number of job postings per thousand people in each major U.S. metropolitan area.

    FORBES: The Easiest and Hardest Cities for Finding a Job

  • We wish we could work every day and have the audiences we used to have - of up to a thousand people.

    BBC: MUHAMMED ABDEL-SATTAR, JOURNALIST, 28

  • Wednesday night Sony hosted what was reported to be a crowd of more than a thousand people at a rare, Applesque new-product demo.

    FORBES: Sony Bets On The Past, Forfeits The Future

  • Viewed from one perspective, 60 odd thousand people marched in favor of blasphemy laws in the largest and most liberal city in the country.

    FORBES: Tens of Thousands Protest in Moscow In Support of the Orthodox Church - Illiberalism is Alive and Well in Russia

  • But I got to say, you know, compared to Senator Barack Obama's welcome with overflow crowds, upwards of five, six thousand people, this is a lot more a McCain affair, and people were very cautious.

    NPR: McCain Courts NAACP

  • If the demand, as some believe, or unfortunately as some coalition force members who worked in this field believed, that they bring 150-thousand people under the title of Awakening and get incorporated into security forces under a sectarian title, this means taking the country back to sectarian confrontation -- Sunnis and Shiites struggling with each other within the institution.

    CNN: Transcript: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Iraq

  • In fact, it hurts them because ten thousand people who could have been glued to a livestream of a pro player demolishing people in Halo 4 are now tuned into another game, somewhere else.

    FORBES: Microsoft's Confusing New Rules On Gameplay Clips And Streaming

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