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Meaning thousand meaning
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Topics thousand topics
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What words refer to estimating a number to the nearest ten, hundred, thousand, etc?
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Simple sentences
This antique clock is worth one thousand dollars.
As many as a thousand people were there.
One hundred, two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, five hundred, six hundred, seven hundred, eight hundred, nine hundred, one thousand.
Almost three thousand people died.
You need a lot of stamina to add ten thousand sentences.
I could eat five thousand pizzas.
After a thousand-year sleep, the dragon woke up.
A thousand meters is one kilometer.
It's several thousand years old.
One hundred and fifty thousand couples are expected to get married in Shanghai in 2006.
A thousand yen is owed to you.
Please draw a hundred thousand yen from the bank.
The bill amounts to five thousand yen.
Our total debts amount to ten thousand dollars.
I have one thousand dollars in travelers' checks and five hundred in cash.
There were lots of bundles, but they weren't thousand-dollar bills.
It was the first of the one thousand cranes that Sadako had to make.
Nearly a thousand people participated in the demonstration.
This watch costs around fifty thousand yen.
There are ten thousand students in this university.
Can you break this thousand-yen bill?
If a sick person folds one thousand paper cranes, her wish will come true.
It cost me ten thousand yen to have my television set repaired.
It cost me one thousand yen to get the bicycle fixed.
Several thousand people were deprived of transportation by the accident.
We had to pay ten thousand yen in addition.
This watch cost me ten thousand yen.
This contract binds me to pay them 10 thousand dollars.
This machine cranks out a thousand screws an hour.
Two thousand people fit into this hall.
Movie subtitles
Over twenty thousand people have applied to join the Nippon special zone.
Even if one out of a thousand stars in the Milky Way galaxy has a planet like the Earth that means there are millions and millions of Earths orbiting other stars.
What about communicating with people across the galaxy where there are tens of thousands or a hundred thousand light years in between?
Find a real way. Then I will be your ally a thousand, even ten thousand times.
You guys are like Benjamin Button, where you look 40, but you're actually a thousand years old.
You can't text me a thousand times every time you're upset, Eddie.
I have over a thousand men working for me at present.
A fantastical being rushes on an astronomer who defends himself and with a stroke of his umbrella the Selenite bursts into a thousand pieces.
Two thousand, that's no lie.
I acknowledge acceptance of hundred thousand francs to carefully handle a fifteen minute meeting of lady Beltham with the person sentenced to death Gurn in a home close to the prison of Sante.
Misters residents Potarlier Further to our dialogues and to link us reciprocally in the affair of the distillery of St Blaise, we give you by our representative one hundred fifty halves of one thousand franc banknotes.
Now, as a thousand years ago, the waterfall sings by the old Norwegian village.
But I accept twelve thousand marks.that will prevent it falling into someone else's hands.
Then arose, purple glowing, veils shimmering in a thousand colourings, shining mists like eerie heralds came along, announcing its approach: the sun.
It resounds to me from heights and chasms a thousand times!
Turn the grasshopper -- and the Opera House is blown to a thousand bits!
And so, with the flames of war crackling along a two-thousand mile front, troops bitterly needed to defend Russia played parade for the Czar.
My prince sends his submissiveness and two thousand horsemen.
A thousand pardons.
Not in a thousand years. You're going on with me!
What in the name of ten thousand purples did you come to a country like this for, anyway?
With the iron horse of Bolshevism Vasili destroyed thousand year old fields!
A few thousand feet higher up we might find better weather, but I doubt it.
But I have an idea that each note might mean the death of a thousand soldiers.
You could never have caught me, not in a thousand years.
Then I will be your ally a thousand, even ten thousand times. Even when I was stuck on the floor in the dark inside of me, there was love.
I'll give a thousand dollars' reward for its return.
And I gave him a check this morning for a thousand dollars.
Two hundred thousand dollars, I sued for.
Give me a thousand francs and you'll never see me again.
Ooh. - Ten thousand bucks.
Ten thousand, huh?
Now, listen, I got 50,000 bucks with me. Fifty thousand.
It's worth nearly a thousand.
Stay and we'll sing a thousand songs.
News and current affairs
Per hundred thousand residents, the US has an incarceration rate over five times that of England, six times that of Canada, and seven times that of Germany.
Half a trillion dollars was committed to the war in Iraq, an amount roughly equal to the sponsorship of all basic research for the last thousand years.
Pope John Paul II began his pilgrimage in Gdansk, birthplace of Solidarity, with a remembrance mass for St. Adalbert, who introduced Poland to Catholicism some thousand years ago.
Brazil has also dramatically improved child health, with mortality rates of young children falling sharply, from 60 per thousand in 1990 to 36 per thousand in 2001.
The Party Congress has its origins in the mass gatherings and propaganda campaigns of the Mao era, and can bring together as many as two thousand delegates.
Indeed, two thousand people have been arrested over the last three years for such crimes as abuse of power and misappropriation of state property.
The authors used crude death rates (CDR's), which reflect the number of deaths per thousand people, in explaining the rise in mortality.
That being said, the group reported that the CDR increased from 5.5 per thousand people in 2002 to 13.3 per thousand in the post-invasion period (March 2003-March 2006).
The UN estimates that Iraq's pre-invasion CDR was 10 per thousand, not the 5 per thousand estimated from the two studies.
Comparing internationally, the UN reports that Iran's CDR in the 2000-2005 period was 5.3 per thousand.
The number of malaria cases fell from 75 million in 1951 to 50,000 in 1961, and the number of malaria deaths from a million in the 1940's to a few thousand in the 1960s.
Similar studies have taught us that sensitivity to alcohol consumption and resistance to diseases like malaria and leprosy also evolved within the last several thousand years.
Unlike the first group, they would be ready to accept the release of one Palestinian prisoner - even if he were responsible for the most brutal terrorist attack - but not a thousand of them.
Because the thousand-year-old city of Mombasa historically had a superb natural harbor, it was fought over many times--by Arabs, the Portuguese, Zanzibaris, the Mazrui, the British, and others.
Back then, many predicted that Lagos wouldn't last the thousand or so days that Allende ruled before Pinochet launched his coup.
Modern science began in Europe 300 years ago with relatively few people - perhaps no more than a thousand when the putative scientific revolution was in full swing.
In October, tens of thousands of villagers protesting inadequate resettlement compensation held a local official captive for several hours before ten thousand People's Armed Police officers rescued him.
This is why taxation in our country remains excessive: the state has to pay for a thousand things which it would not have to pay if an advanced civil society existed, because citizens would pay for them directly.
To guard those projects, several thousand Chinese troops reportedly have been deployed in the rebellious, predominantly Shia region, which is closed to the outside world.