• Four thousand of the homes have already been built or approved to meet the quota, which runs from 2006 to 2026.

    BBC: Caution urged over new home plans

  • 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

  • But it's a measure of the dominance of oral culture over the printed word both here and in the rest of Africa that Ivory Coast's leading book shop chain says it's only sold four thousand copies of Houphouet Boigny's Imaginary Plots.

    BBC: Political thriller wows African readers

  • The Kochs operate oil refineries in Alaska, Texas, and Minnesota, and control some four thousand miles of pipeline.

    NEWYORKER: Covert Operations

  • Last year, an estimated four hundred thousand acres of opium poppies were planted in Afghanistan, a fifty-nine-per-cent increase over the previous year.

    NEWYORKER: The Taliban��s Opium War

  • 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

  • Instead of small rooms with no amenities and all-you-can-eat buffets, it would have four thousand rooms, of seven hundred square feet each, with minibars, fax machines, and telephones equipped for conference calls.

    NEWYORKER: The Brass Ring

  • "I've been in my job three and a half years and I've had fewer than five letters or contacts from the public about this issue, whereas I've had three to four thousand contacts from members of the media, " he said.

    BBC: Open to stay men only

  • In the opening credits, we learn how many of them finally make it to freedom, crossing the Himalayas into India after a trek of some four thousand miles.

    NEWYORKER: Miles To Go

  • Yet only four thousand have been processed, and of these a third have been denied.

    FORBES: America's Disgrace. (It's Bigger Than The Debt.)

  • The base price for a custom-made pair of Louboutins is four thousand dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Sole Mate

  • Doctors have asked her for a medical-director salary of four or five thousand dollars a month in return for sending her business.

    NEWYORKER: The Cost Conundrum

  • Denmark and Scandinavian governments are also considering limiting the practice of circumcision which has constituted one of the foundational rituals of Judaism for four thousand years.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel faces the cynical world

  • The conflict cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Filipinos and about four thousand U.S. soldiers.

    NEWYORKER: The Water Cure

  • For four thousand years gold has been the Polaris of price stability.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Mr. Carvalho would then favour one team or the other, allegedly for a fee of between four and six thousand dollars per game.

    BBC: Mundo | Aprenda ingl��s | Tarjeta roja para ��rbitro brasile?o

  • It took me four years of college and about a thousand papers, pop quizzes, multiple choice tests, mid-term exams, finals, a handful of art projects and one thesis to determine exactly what I should have majored in.

    FORBES: If You Could Do College All Over Again, Would You?

  • Four thousand, six hundred allied troops had been killed on that day alone, of whom two thousand five hundred were American and nineteen French.

    BBC: Part Two - France and Memory

  • He has four thousand employees, three thousand volunteer posse members, and an overworked media-relations unit of five.

    NEWYORKER: Sheriff Joe

  • Medical spending for a breast-cancer survivor, for instance, averaged an estimated fifty-four thousand dollars in 2003, the vast majority of it for the initial diagnostic testing, surgery, and, where necessary, radiation and chemotherapy.

    NEWYORKER: Letting Go

  • Mr. KEITH LAMBERT (Mayor, Rifle, Colorado): Four thousand two hundred new residential units in a town of 9, 000.

    NPR: Cashing In on Economic Downturn

  • The last major retailer of music and films on the High Street HMV is to be placed in the hands of administrators, putting more than four-thousand jobs at risk.

    BBC: HMV 'haven't been slaughtered'

  • And also, the budget calls for the hiring of several hundred thousand workers over the next four years.

    WHITEHOUSE: Detailing the FY2011 Budget

  • In its first year, it led to just two hundred thousand loan modifications, out of some three or four million candidates.

    NEWYORKER: Replay

  • It includes Phoenix, covers more than nine thousand square miles, and has a population of nearly four million.

    NEWYORKER: Sheriff Joe

  • Before long, the number of spindles on a typical mule jumped from four hundred to a thousand.

    NEWYORKER: The Tweaker

  • Since then five thousand projects have benefited over four million children and young people in every corner of Brazil.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN BRASILIA

  • 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

  • Four thousand staff working at 373 Crown - or main - offices, handling 20% of all Post Office business, will strike on 30 March.

    BBC: Post Office workers set to strike over Easter

  • It operates fourteen mines in the Pilbara, with a thousand miles of rail and a hundred and sixty locomotives, twenty-four hours a day, year-round.

    NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

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