If every drug is only going to work in a few thousand people, what then?
Chernobyl's death toll is highly uncertain, but may have reached a few thousand people.
It does not get enough rain to support a few thousand people let alone several million.
Three other medicines sold by the company treat diseases that occur in just a few thousand people.
In this day and age, you know, having a few thousand people engaging in a conversation isn't a bad thing.
But only a few thousand people worldwide have the kind of experience Aleynikov has, evidenced by the pay he was offered.
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Papua New Guinea, an area only slightly bigger than Texas, has 800 languages, some spoken by just a few thousand people.
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We thought a few thousand people would see the film, but in less than a week, millions of people around the world saw it.
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In a "light" year, a few thousand people may still die, but a particularly serious year could see up to 49, 000 deaths from the flu, Fauci said.
The Fona Festival consists of a modified Tsou marriage, representing efforts to continue the tribe, a rather important task as the populations of many tribes number only a few thousand people.
For any drug, be it a new medicine to treat diabetes in millions of patients, or a drug to treat a rare disease afflicting only a few thousand people around the world, intense discussions and analyses are carried out to determine how best to price such a drug.
It even knocks a few hundred thousand people off the AMT this year.
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Are you going to ask a few hundred thousand people who have done very, very well to do their fair share?
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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.
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We expected a few hundred people to show up the first year and a thousand came along.
Most people investing at least a few thousand dollars in a watch are looking for a purely mechanical movement.
Most people may be willing to pay a few thousand to get a premium test that gives them peace of mind that they have a correct interpretation of their genetic data, especially in life-or-death matters such as deciding on cancer treatments.
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He added that about two million people at any one time are trying to buy tickets, but only a few thousand each day were able to be released.
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