Exploiting wars between France and Austria to acquire the rich northern part of the country, the Piedmontese king was faced with a startling fait accompli when the revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, initially leading an expedition of only a thousand men, quite unexpectedly conquered the whole of Sicily and southern Italy.
Nowadays you might still see a fat spread on a stock that trades only a few thousand shares a day.
Barbecue chicken on a stick, sausage, grilled squid and octopus, corn on the cob and tteokbokki (rice cakes in spicy sauce) are available for only a few thousand won (a few dollars).
There were then only a few thousand of them, and a century later war and disease had taken most of those.
So when you come to symbolic gestures, there is much more variation because the gestures are more recent--at most only a couple of thousand years old and probably only a few hundred years old.
There are only a few thousand such CF patients worldwide, but Wall Street is excited because the drug could cost a quarter of a million dollars a year per patient.
Fitocracy started off with only a few thousand users during its beta testing days in 2011.
In the early 1980s, for example, wireless carriers could put only a few thousand calls on each band.
The grooves are only a few thousand atoms deep and must be uniform across an entire 15-centimeter plate.
The grooves are only a few thousand atoms deep and must be uniform across an entire 6-inch plate.
Which? said courts fail to recognise the seriousness of pollution offences and impose fines of only a few thousand pounds.
There are currently only a few thousand African union troops trying to safeguard an area roughly the size of Texas.
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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India has millions of cars on its roadways but only a few thousand electric cars, and almost no public electric car chargers.
Deputy Spruce said the cost of kerbside recycling could not be justified by a decrease in residual waste of "only a few thousand tonnes".
But the 990s of Waste to Charity mentions no such gifts to Operation Compassion and total revenues of only a few hundred thousand dollars a year.
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Although a game like World of Warcraft has hundreds of thousands of players, only a few thousand play together on each of the dozens of servers.
Today there are only a few thousand Jews left in Poland to look after the country's 1, 400-or-so Jewish cemeteries, most of which are overgrown or in ruins.
Thanks to such advances, the cost of a fuel cell has already fallen from the stratosphere to only a few thousand dollars per kilowatt of generating capacity.
Tackling a Travelling Salesman Problem that has lots of locations with a supercomputer can take years because even the most powerful supercomputers use only a few thousand processors.
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.
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.
We are continuing to investigate but right now it looks like only a few thousand of the signatures came from these spam bots, and the majority were from legitimate All Out members.
Stopping exploits rather than cleaning up the malware they leave behind may be a more practical method of preventing PC infections, Moy argues, given that only a few thousand unique exploits appear every year, while more than 30, 000 new strains of malware appear every day.
Musharraf, who seized power in a military coup in 1999 but was forced to step down nearly a decade later, was greeted last month by only a couple thousand people at the airport in the southern city of Karachi when his plane landed from Dubai.
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 would be argued that most employers in Jersey offer a living wage, there are only a couple of thousand workers on a minimum wage and they are the most vulnerable in society, " he said.
If major corporations are spending multiple millions of dollars on mainframes, why worry about a department or small business only spending a few thousand dollars on PCs?
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