thousand

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"And to get the result we have - that should benefit thousands."

From BBC

“We help about 1,400 families a month and we plucked out who had experience at large financial institutions that we could learn from, and culled records from at least a thousand,” said Walter.

From MarketWatch

During the first few hours after fertilization, a fruit fly embryo rapidly divides its nuclei, producing thousands of cells in a short time.

From Science Daily

By contrast, the United States and Russia, the world's two main atomic powers, have thousands of nuclear warheads each.

From Barron's

Robert declined to disclose the price of the robots, but said it was in the hundreds of thousands of euros.

From Barron's