We've got another nine and a half thousand places in hand in the short term.
The Buddha observed two and a half thousand years ago that the only constant is change, and that is far more true than ever today.
Prime Minister GORDON BROWN (United Kingdom): Subject, of course, to conditions on the ground, we plan from next spring to reduce force numbers in Southern Iraq to a figure of two and a half thousand.
In 2005, Microsoft announced that it would spend two and a half million dollars to scan a hundred thousand out-of-copyright books in the collection of the British Library.
Shiner, Texas, a town of two thousand an hour and a half east of San Antonio, is known to most Texans as the home of Shiner Beer, one of the best-selling independent beers in the country.
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France Telecom's new boss, Thierry Breton, has said seven and a half of the thirteen thousand job cuts will be in France, the remainder at its overseas businesses.
Harry Herbert, manager of two leading British racing syndicates, says that horses that once sold for a couple of hundred thousand pounds now go for half a million.
Mr Williams said he and "at least a couple of thousand other fans" missed the first half, despite a 15-minute delay to the scheduled 1500GMT kick off.
Since then the company, founded by Andrew Mason three and a half years ago, looks to be suffering the death of a thousand cuts paper cuts, that is, from class actions around the terms of its deals, state regulator cease-and-desist letters around its marketing of alcohol and the me-too business plans of 425 competitors that have flooded the marketplace.
According to the automaker, laser lighting can produce a forward beam with an intensity a thousand times greater than conventional LEDs, but with half the energy consumption.
It is the second largest in Latin America, drawing more than half a million visitors, nearly two thousand publishers, and hundreds of authors, including, over the years, Nadine Gordimer, William Styron, and Toni Morrison.
Rusted wheels stand silent, gap-toothed wooden houses are half-collapsed: the rotten shards of a thousand dreams of riches.
Though smaller bulbs may last for a couple thousand hours, the larger bulbs may hold out for less than half that.
After providing two years of consulting services, Taylor billed the company a hundred thousand dollars (which works out to something like two and a half million dollars today), and then he was fired.
Yesterday two-hundred-thousand came for the children's carnival and the police think about half-a-million people are here today.
Ms. JENNIFER ALLEN (Border Action Network): Ten thousand post cards were sent to the - to both the senators in the last month and a half.
He had also been a pastor, a bank president, and an entrepreneur, who once brought twenty-five thousand settlers to southwest Louisiana to farm for an English company that had bought a million and a half acres of land there.
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