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It has a history of over two thousand years.

Thousands of bees left a town after landing on the back of a car when their queen got stuck in its boot.

If you could get the right ten thousand people to move from Silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley.

Fifty years ago, they were the latest thing in educational reform: big, modern, suburban high schools with students counted in the thousands.

And most noticeable of all, there is the phenomenon of large urban and suburban high schools that have split up into smaller units of a few hundred, generally housed in the same grounds that once boasted thousands of students all marching to the same band.

If you could get the right ten thousand people to move from silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley.

So we work very closely with a great group of volunteers called the One Thousand Elders.

Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

In thousands of ways, social workers help other people—people from every age, every background across the country.

This is a very sensible way for an animal to make decisions in the wild and would have been very helpful for humans for thousands of years.

The incandescent light bulb, invented by Thomas Edison, which came to be the symbol of inspiration, has been developed into hundreds, if not thousands, of forms.

No matter how hard you try, you can't turn something that large on a dime ( ' , 10 美分硬币 ),or even a few thousand dimes.

Her son Doug is one of several hundred thousand high-school seniors who had a painful fall.

Still, at the most selective schools, where thousands of candidates may submit identically high grades and test scores, a marginal item like the essay may serve as a tie-breaker between two equally qualified candidates.

""We would have probably gone ahead with this, maybe just getting a thousand iPhones and giving them out," Mr. Yu said. Yu said.

Traditional vocational training in public high schools is gradually declining, stranding thousands of young people who seek training for a craft without going to college.

In Einstein's day, there were only a few thousand physicists worldwide, and the theoreticians who could intellectually rival Einstein probably would fit into a streetcar with seats to spare.

Two weeks later, she arrived at Alaska, thousands of miles from her friends, her family and her past.

This exploitation has reached such extremes that presently it appears that some hundreds of thousands of species will be extinguished before the end of the century

As a young man, he began walking over tens of thousands of miles during his lifetime, through the south to Florida, the west to California and north to Alaska, where readers are taken a long and particularly hair-raising adventure on a large mass of floating ice

In a study analyzing data on thousands of Ohio State freshmen who lived in dorms, he found that black freshmen who came to college with high standardized test scores earned better grades if they had a white roommate — even if the roommate's test scores were low.

But she says nations will not make progress fighting hunger and poverty until they begin to focus on those critical first thousand days.

I have enough trouble delivering bikes to shops only forty miles away, never mind five thousand miles.

No matter how hard you try, you can't turn something that large on a dime, or even a few thousand dimes.

There's something in the region of six or seven thousand pounds a year, which is not high.

This is why we're all on board in focusing on those thousand days to improve nutrition.