The Piraha, a tribe in the Amazon in Brazil, whose language eschews number words in favor of terms like few and many, are not able to keep track of exact quantities.
Published in Science, that paper gave the best-yet estimate of the true number of words in English a million, far more than any dictionary has recorded (the 2002 Webster's Third New International Dictionary has 348, 000).
Dr Michel first used his data to estimate the total number of words in the English language.
The Tax Code is now about four million words, nearly as long as seven versions of War and Peace or the novel version of Les Miserables and just under four times the number of words in all of the Harry Potter books put together.
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In other words, the number of vehicles manufactured in each color for the 2012 model year determines where on the list that color turns up.
Policy specifics and -- I think for those who do this in Washington, like number of words dedicated to each issue and which position they achieve in the address -- I'll probably discourage you from doing that after he gives the State of the Union, but it's more appropriate for an address like that.
It should be noted, however, that even with modern radar technology detecting more minor tornadoes that could be detected in prior decades, the number of F2-to-F5 tornadoes (in other words, all but the very weakest of tornadoes) has similarly been declining since the mid-1970s.
This bust-up was to be about the UK Government's Green Paper - a consultation in other words - on how the proposed cut to the number of Westminster seats in Wales from 40 to 30 should impact on the way AMs are elected in future.
In other words, the number of centenarians is doubling once every 11 or 12 years.
In other words, the number-generating RSA security tokens business people use to login to their corporate VPN may not be as secure as previously thought.
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In other words, the number of people that might have been exposed to the real time tweets was significant, but just a fraction of those watching on TV.
This is the order of symmetry of the crystal (in other words, the number of ways it can be rotated to produce a pattern identical to the original).
In 1970, a mysterious singer-songwriter in Detroit named Rodriguez released an album called Cold Fact, which got nice notices, but, in the words of a number of bewildered music-biz people connected with the record, did absolutely nothing.
In other words, a large number of Russian launchers will be removed from service with or without a new arms-control agreement.
But I do think that it would help us all to be reminded of the words of Alexander Hamilton in Federalist number 65.
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In France the young use an increasing number of English words, including main verbs, and say it is "cool" to accept the triumph of "franglais" (as their elders call it).
In other words, trade numbers are simply one number among many.
In other words, over the past 20 months, the number of these blacklisted ships sticking close to Iran has more than doubled.
Research indicates that children in families receiving welfare hear less than one-third the number of words per hour as children from more affluent backgrounds and will turn four having heard 32 million fewer words than children from professional families.
Just over a year into operations, Trada that already tapped 1, 000 people (all in the US) to help mostly small to medium-sized companies figure out to maximize their ad spending on Google search words and expects to increase that the number of freelancers tenfold in 2011.
His words are uncomfortably reminiscent of the paranoia that swept through Number 10 in the mid-1970s when Harold Wilson became convinced that MI5 was conspiring against him, after a series of burglaries and press leaks.
In other words, VCs may ultimately wind-up holding a large number of companies at inflated valuations.
Writing at Gameranx, Ian Miles Cheong points to a number of the other obvious flaws in the hoax letter, but sounds off with some words of warning.
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In other words, workers get a deduction--but on a larger number.
In other words, those of working age will have to support a vastly increased number of dependants.
In other words, there will end up being a theoretical maximum of the current number of addresses squared, and squared again: around a third of a duodecillion (340, 282, 366, 920, 938, 463, 463, 374, 607, 431, 768, 211, 456 to be precise).
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In other words, the Second Law of Big Data: The value of data grows with the number of innovative models applied to it.
The city, which has tested the proposal in a small-scale pilot initiative, cites research that show that similar programs can boost the number of words spoken to a child by 55 percent.
In other words, on the top issue of this election the economy a number of Americans who voted for Mr. Obama in 2008 are open to the idea that someone else could do a better job.
In other words, like most of what the U.S. government does, the monthly jobs number is a joke.
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