More than one thousand people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck western Indonesia at the end of September.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

The number of students taken to hospitals increased one and a half times from nineteen ninety-seven to two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

A group of one thousand soldiers went to Harpers Ferry,Virginia, where the Union army had a gun factory and arsenal.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

One study of agencies that list women seeking husbands found there were around ten thousand "mail-order marriages" a year.

VOA: special.2011.02.14

Some experiments are already taking place in the mine at a depth of about one thousand five hundred meters.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

The latest information from the Tombstone Chamber of Commerce says the town has a population of about one thousand five hundred people.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

He was honored as part of Simon and Garfunkel, then as a solo artist in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

And he showed how to change one thousand five hundred words into a living language that informed,educated and entertained millions of people.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

"Probably,for a one-hundred-fifty-thousand-dollar- a-year employee it would cost me in the range of ten to fifteen thousand dollars."

VOA: special.2011.05.13

That is true,at least, of most of one thousand two hundred people who recently answered questions for a study on the issue.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

By the end of eighteen eighty-one, the town of Tombstone had a population of more than five thousand.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

America's Environmental Protection Agency estimates that about one hundred thousand sea animals die each year as a result of the plastic waste.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

In two thousand one, a group of women took legal action against the company for sex discrimination.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

One shows the remains of a dying star four thousand light years away which has thrown off a cloud of glowing hydrogen gas.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

"It's a great honor to be included as one of the recipients of the two thousand and eight Cable Television Hall of Fame."

VOA: special.2011.05.11

The researchers studied the diets of thirty-one thousand children ages two to eighteen over a thirty-year period.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

That is also the name of a book from two thousand one by Elliott Gorn, a professor now at Brown University in Rhode Island.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

The National Institutes of Health suggests that women limit their calories to no less than one thousand two hundred calories a day without medical supervision.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

America's National Institutes of Health has suggested that women limit calories to no less than one thousand two hundred calories a day without medical supervision.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

"Rhonda Smith of Tennessee described how in two thousand six her Toyota-made Lexus sped up for a time to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

Almost one thousand seven hundred high school teams entered a level of competition called LUNACY.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

And ten years later, in two thousand eight, he was one of the first top Democrats to support a young senator seeking the party's nomination for president.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

It calls for America and Russia to each deploy a limit of one thousand five hundred fifty long-distance nuclear weapons -- a cut of about thirty percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.17

The glass reaches a temperature of about one thousand degrees Celsius.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

Gillian wrote a report of how he spent the thousand dollars: "Paid by Robert Gillian, one thousand dollars on account of the eternal happiness, owed by Heaven to the best and dearest woman on earth."

VOA: special.2011.08.13

About one thousand participants are meeting to find ways of ensuring food security for a rapidly growing world population.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Dr.Rebecca Smith-Bindman of the University of California San Francisco led a study of more than one thousand patients in four of the city's biggest hospitals.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30