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Thousand
Definition:
(n.) The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.
(n.) Hence, indefinitely, a great number.
(n.) A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, M or CI/.
(a.) Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred.
(a.) Hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(2) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(3) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(4) One thousand nineteen Wyoming ground squirrels (Spermophilus elegans elegans) from 4 populations in southern Wyoming were examined for intestinal parasites.
(5) One thousand singleton low-risk pregnancies were cross-sectionally studied at 36-40 weeks gestation with continuous-wave Doppler ultrasonography in order to assess its usefulness as an antepartum monitoring technique for the identification of fetuses at risk of developing an adverse outcome.
(6) The number of cases identified by the screening was found to be 322 children per thousand.
(7) The al-Shifa, like hospitals across Gaza, is chronically short of medical supplies after treating thousands of wounded during the conflict.
(8) Five thousand patients of atheromatous heart disease, presented as angina pectoris, were studied over a period of five years.
(9) Personalised health tests that screen thousands of genes for versions that influence disease are inaccurate and offer little, if any, benefit to consumers, scientists claimed on Monday.
(10) Squint was the most common diagnosis with the prevalence being 18.4 per thousand for the children in social classes I to III and 15.9 for the total series.
(11) "Thousands of scientists and officials from over 100 countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming," the panel said.
(12) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
(13) 'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance Read more As thousands gathered for the afternoon rally and march, Trump tweeted his solidarity with their action.
(14) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
(15) Fine, but the most important new political fact is the unprecedented wave of support that has latched on to Corbyn: the hundreds of thousands who joined Labour, the thumping majority that handed him the leadership, the huge sections of the country that have tuned out of Westminster droid-talk.
(16) According to Nigerian government figures, there were more than 7,000 spills between 1970 and 2000, and there are 2,000 official major spillage sites, many going back decades, with thousands of smaller spills still waiting to be cleared up.
(17) They care about British television and, if necessary, they will be prepared to fight for it in their thousands and perhaps their millions.
(18) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(19) And we literally had hundreds of thousands of them."
(20) The WikiLeaks website posted a Twitter link to the cache of documents, saying it “contains many tens of thousands (of) emails, photos, attachments up to April 24, 2017”.
Thousandfold
Definition:
(a.) Multiplied by a thousand.
Example Sentences:
(1) More than a thousandfold excess of dodecylsulfate (on a molar basis) is needed in order to dissociate alpha 2-macroglobulin to particles with, on average, half the original molecular mass.
(2) Minute quantities of TMOF a thousandfold lower than in the ovary were found in the mosquito brain, indicating that the hormone is probably not neural but ovarian in origin.
(3) Renal cysts develop from microscopic tubules and may enlarge progressively several thousandfold.
(4) The quantities of synthetic oligonucleotides required for modest in vivo testing are several thousandfold greater than can be produced by conventional DNA synthesis technology and 10(5)-10(7)-fold greater for preclinical and clinical evaluation.
(5) The interaction between ATIII and thrombin is enhanced several thousandfold by the glycosaminoglycan, heparin.
(6) Ricin A-chain coupled to OX7 antibody was one hundredfold to one thousandfold less effective than OX7-saporin as an antitumor agent in vivo, although the two immunotoxins were equally cytotoxic to AKR-A cells in vitro.
(7) Every teenager who hears these songs goes on to dig out the originals, boosting Coleridge's audience several thousandfold.
(8) However, opiate binding to the partially purified receptor was about a thousandfold more sensitive to DTNB than binding to this membrane-bound receptor.
(9) The gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) type A receptor was purified several thousandfold by affinity chromatography from rat cerebellum, adult cortex, and neonatal cortex.
(10) In one such tumor there was a strong predominance of HPP cells; the serum HPP levels of this patient were a thousandfold elevated, whereas her VIP levels were within the normal range.
(11) There was a ten-thousandfold difference in potency between carbachol and Ach in this tissue.
(12) These measurements reveal that some chemicals are enriched several thousandfold in the suspended liquid fog droplets compared to equilibrium distributions expected from Henry's Law coefficients for pure aqueous solutions.
(13) Comparison of the crystal structure of inactive unliganded trp aporepressor with that of trp repressor shows that binding tryptophan activates the dimer a thousandfold by moving two symmetrically-disposed flexible bihelical motifs.
(14) Selenite in low concentration (0.5 microM) and seleno-di-N-acetyl glycine in thousandfold higher concentrations offered considerable protection against these effects of methyl mercury.
(15) Linearity as well as noninterference by liver homogenate, phenols, amines, and thousandfold or greater excesses of sulfate, thiol, and dimethyl sulfoxide is demonstrated.
(16) Synergistic activation of the HIV-1 LTR (up to several thousandfold) was observed with combinations of these mitogens and the HIV-1--derived tat-III protein.
(17) Patients with xeroderma pigmentosum exhibit a thousandfold higher risk for sunlight-induced skin cancers than patients with normal skin, and also have various defects in cellular immunity.
(18) iii) Very high flow rates (about one thousandfold higher than those compatible with bond formation) were required to provoke substantial detachment of substrate-bound cells.
(19) Thousandfold antibody dilutions could be used and samples at the femtomole range were assayable.
(20) Initially, the tumor cells had a CFEag which was a hundredfold to a thousandfold lower than the cells that had been grown only in vitro.