In March, my mother underwent a total knee replacement, like at least six hundred thousand Americans each year.

NEWYORKER: Big Med

Martin Bell, the lead prosecutor in the criminal case, asked the judge to raise the bond to six hundred thousand dollars.

NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

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

But Wilpon and Katz put up only six hundred and fifty thousand each.

NEWYORKER: Madoff��s Curveball

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

Three thousand six hundred soldiers worked on the roof of the ruined reactor.

NPR: 'Voices of Chernobyl': Survivors' Stories

Hennessy earned six hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars in salary from Stanford last year, but he has made far more as a board member of and shareholder in Google and Cisco.

NEWYORKER: Get Rich U.

Nevertheless, six decades after V-J Day nearly three hundred thousand American troops are stationed overseas, including fifty-five thousand in Germany, thirty-five thousand in Japan, and ten thousand in Italy.

NEWYORKER: The Force