Our house had beenin Mama's family since her grandpa'sgrandpa's grandpa had come across the oceanabout a thousand years ago.

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During his thirty-five years in a mental hospital in Switzerland, Mister Wolfli created twenty-five thousand pages of drawings and stories.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

A researcher says three hundred forty-three thousand AIDS deaths in South Africa in the last ten years could have been prevented.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

The administration says a new private space industry could create ten thousand new jobs across the country in five years.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

But ten years later, a similar accusation by another boy led to a criminal trial which began in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

Business was so good that a five thousand dollar investment in the cattle industry could make forty-five thousand dollars in four years.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

One shows the remains of a dying star four thousand light years away which has thrown off a cloud of glowing hydrogen gas.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

The number of people in the small town of Spencer,Iowa,for example, dropped from eleven thousand to eight thousand in just a few years.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

We look closely at a marble statue of a "kouros", or young man that was made over two thousand five hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

China put an astronaut into space in two thousand three, and it plans to send a robotic explorer to the moon two years from now.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than one thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Duncan sang at least five-thousand concerts in fifty countries during twenty-five years as a performer.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

The program is ten years old. And it has received a lot of recognition, including an award in two thousand six from the White House.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

One object is a brightly painted coffin that is nearly four thousand years old.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

And ten years later, in two thousand eight, he was one of the first top Democrats to support a young senator seeking the party's nomination for president.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

He hurt my feelings a thousand times during the years of my childhood.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

Experts believe this statue was made by the people of Rhodes about two thousand two hundred years ago as a religious offering to honor a naval victory.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

A government report this week said people on a terrorism watch list legally bought guns and explosives more than one thousand times in the past six years.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

About twenty-four-thousand years ago, it rained a great deal in the area.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

Tests show the instrument, a flute,is at least thirty-five thousand years old.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

The story begins two thousand years ago with a willow tree.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

A large meteorite hit the area four thousand million years ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

If they are right about that new crack in the earth, this landlocked country could become a beach resort within, say,a few hundred thousand years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.14