• And so on for a thousand and one nights, a new cliffhanger each dawn.

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  • Instead of grooving on the likes of ravioli with lambs' sweetbreads or rump of Dornoch hogget, we're in a room that seems to have been decorated by a serial killer with a penchant for expensive malts, choosing from a menu of a thousand and one open sandwiches.

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  • Some five thousand people were killed in the war last year, including a hundred and ninety-one foreign troops and at least a thousand civilians.

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  • There was a line for Santa and a line for the women's bathroom, and one woman, after asking me a thousand questions already asked, which is the line for the women's bathroom?

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  • Not a very big village and in one field right outside of the village residents had collected more than a thousand bomblets and they had just put them in boxes and dug four craters and left them there for U.N. de-miners to eventually destroy.

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  • It weighs only 185 grams, has a battery life up to one month, and holds up to a thousand eBooks, with storage of up to 30, 000 books with expandable memory.

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  • Let a thousand flowers bloom, and see which one wins Dr Venter's Grand Prix.

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  • Narcolepsy is a brain disorder characterised by sleep attacks and abnormal eye movement which affects up to one in a thousand people.

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  • They also said they have repeatedly contacted "every known victim and family member of a victim numbering over one thousand" about possible resolutions of the case, including the death penalty and life in prison without parole.

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  • Put a thousand of these threads in one pipe, and, as Everett Dirksen might have said, soon you're talking real bandwidth.

    FORBES: Digital Rules

  • There are a thousand arguments for and against this already, but one does have to admit that in times of economic recession lower revenues can be expected and the government needs to act accordingly by having a rainy day fund or fluxing the rate.

    FORBES: Top Reagan Advisor Calls Out The GOP For Lying About Taxes

  • The M.mycoides genome contains over a million letters of genetic code and current DNA-technology can string-together perhaps a few thousand units in one go.

    FORBES: 'Artificial Cells' May Provide Souce Of Algal Fuel

  • Only a tiny amount, about one part in a thousand of the paint by weight, is needed, and other marine species are not, as far as can be ascertained, affected by it.

    ECONOMIST: Monitor: Reducing the barnacle bill | The

  • It is quite another when a thousand little Hilters get their hands on one huge weapon and passionately, nihilistically go forth to kill.

    WSJ: Gut Time

  • With fleets of armored vehicles, numerous helicopters, sometimes with visible door gunners and at least a thousand security staff, Blackwater is one of the most visible private security companies in Iraq.

    NPR: Blackwater's Iraq Security Contract Threatened

  • One thousand lumens from a CFL is visually harsh and makes food (and people) look ugly, compared with the same 1, 000 from Edison's incandescence.

    FORBES: The LED Illumination Revolution

  • Her writing life was oddly self-contained, even if, by the end of the Potter series, she was receiving between one and two thousand pieces of mail a week.

    NEWYORKER: Mugglemarch

  • In August two thousand and one seventeen year old Valerie Heron jumped off a third floor balcony.

    BBC

  • Wine is a more complex substance than one might think, and, above two thousand metres, and at close to zero degrees centigrade, it displays interesting behavioral anomalies.

    NEWYORKER: Bear Meat

  • But only one in a thousand of those in fact have a malignancy and are destined to die from it. (Most of the 4, 000 deaths per year from cervical cancer are in women who either never had a Pap smear or missed having one in the five years before a cancer diagnosis.) Over their lifetimes, 40% of women get a false alarm Pap.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Land on a one-in-a-thousand hit like Music Man, and you stand to collect a long string of royalty checks from revivals and road shows.

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  • If you could carve one second into a thousand slices, that would be a millisecond and about how quickly you could trade dead Wilbur.

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  • He also treated us to his solo guitar treatments of two jazz standards ("But Beautiful" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"), as well as one of his own solo guitar compositions, "Venezuelan Nights, " from his recent CD The Spice of Life.

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  • Undercover Nurse follows on from the broadcast of A Carer's Story in 2003, which generated nearly one thousand calls, letters and emails.

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  • If you want to run not one query but a thousand per second, you need very high throughput and higher efficiency in data processing.

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  • Deutschlander says that last year his firm interviewed about a thousand people, and found forty-nine it liked, a ratio of twenty interviewees to one candidate.

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  • The Hub was opened on 31 January 2012, which Mr Keir said was "a culmination of 40 years of campaigning" and he said it was "a fantastic day" with more than one thousand people attending.

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  • Trump International is starting on the back foot against its British rivals, but with broadcast cables already running beneath the course and a plan in place for several thousand spectators, it has a strong case to one day host major tournaments.

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  • He has a record number of 555 dismissals in Tests and 999 in all forms of international cricket, a tantalizing one short of the thousand mark.

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  • Twenty-one thousand Pakistani rupees for a four-kilo package, the farmer said, and he harvested three to four kilos per jirib (a local land measurement equivalent to about half an acre).

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