• Showing her proverbial sensitivity, she recalled that the adoption of the World Heritage Convention on 16 November 1972 had made it possible for the international community to take an unprecedented step towards the recognition of the thousand-year-old legacy of human knowledge and of the work of nature since the very origin of the world.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • The Clinton proposal also gave legitimacy to the Palestinian demand for a "right of return, " allowing for the immigration of several thousand in the framework of family reunification.

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  • By contrast, a business investment in the amount of the several hundred thousand dollars represented in the value of a house would likely create many permanent jobs and produce income, profits and competition.

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  • Why don't journalists spend as much time inquiring into the lives of the billion poorest people on Earth as they do gawking at the fortunes of the thousand richest?

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  • According to tax records, it was funded by two donations: one of five hundred thousand dollars, the other of fifty thousand dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Partners

  • On the day of the feast, a thousand-strong parade leaves the church of Hunnegem, led by the church dean and city councillors in historical costume.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • The higher areas of both counties are littered with the remains of several thousand years of their exploitation.

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  • The pile is owned by Weston Super Mare based Good 2 Grow, but the company laid all its staff off and effectively shut down just days before the thousand tonnes of wood chippings and other green waste spontaneously combusted.

    BBC: Beenham compost fire: Legal notice served on company

  • The new thinking among the leaders caught the attention of the clerics at Al Azhar, the thousand-year-old institution of Islamic learning in the center of ancient Cairo.

    NEWYORKER: The Rebellion Within

  • But for the tens of thousand that will travel to SXSW in March, options are a major part of the problem.

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  • Some of that information has been compiled in the latest edition of the Ten Thousand Commandments report.

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  • Since the program was announced in the spring of 2000, only 4, 000 patients have received the Pfizer antifungal in 120 of the several thousand public clinics and hospitals.

    FORBES: Doing badly by doing good

  • The Army ultimately ordered almost thirteen thousand of the aircraft, which it dubbed the B-17.

    NEWYORKER: The Checklist

  • The editor of the Daily Morning Chronicle requested thirty thousand dollars in return for his support of the treaty, and Stoeckl paid thousands of dollars to ten members of Congress to win their votes.

    NEWYORKER: Union Man

  • Since its inception in 2006, MeXvi has pioneered the assisted self-construction of homes in rural and semi-urban areas in over 13 states of Mexico, improving the quality of life of thousand of Mexicans.

    FORBES: MeXvi: Enabling Families To Have A Home

  • They are now in disarray, after their commander in the east, known as Colonel Karuna, broke away early this month, complaining about the domination of the movement by northerners, and claiming the backing of several thousand Tiger fighters.

    ECONOMIST: Elections are unlikely to bring a stable government

  • The test was given to a group of more than two thousand freshmen in the fall of 2005, and again, to the same group, in the spring of 2007.

    NEWYORKER: Live and Learn

  • 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

  • The raindrops blown a couple of miles west of our ranch would land in creeks that percolated through the Columbia River system into the Pacific, whereas the water in Feely Creek, our creek, was blessed with the task of traveling a thousand miles more, all the way down to the bayous of Louisiana before spilling through the loamy delta into the Gulf of Mexico.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet'

  • 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.

    FORBES: Groupon Fights To Keep Its Lead

  • In the early 1990s there were more than a thousand of the Cook Inlet's genetically distinct belugas.

    ECONOMIST: Environment

  • She says it will significantly reduce the one hundred thousand minutes of delays caused by the weather each year.

    NPR: FAA Seeks to Cut Air Traffic Congestion

  • In 2010, in unveiling eQ and plans for it, the company said it wanted to sell several thousand of the nameplate each year.

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  • And by the end of two thousand and three the annual murder rate in Southeast LA increased by eighteen percent. 10.55.57 Aston JOHN LINDER Consultant to Chief Bratton We have only enough police officers here to make certain that the wealthier neighbourhoods stay safe.

    BBC

  • Our Layoff Tracker follows job cuts at companies on The Forbes 500s and the Forbes International 500--more than one thousand of the world's biggest companies.

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  • According to the plaintiffs, there are nearly a thousand of these pits in the Oriente, scattered across an area the size of Rhode Island.

    NEWYORKER: Reversal of Fortune

  • Each of us is responsible for the first several thousand dollars of health care costs, and a percentage of costs above that amount, up to a fairly high cap.

    FORBES: The Health Insurer Could Be A Better Friend

  • The agreement provides for the construction of a three-thousand-kilometre pipeline from Kazakstan to the west of China.

    BBC: Oil flows from the Caspian Sea

  • The legal costs amounting to several thousand pounds of the hearing, which was the first day of a scheduled four-day case, will be met from public funds.

    BBC: Judge steps down from hunt case

  • I'm gathering more support from individual members, and it'll be individual members voting .. hundreds of thousand and in the case of Trade Unions, in their millions, who'll determine the, the outcome.

    BBC: INTERVIEW WITH: PETER HAIN

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