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The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
Anne Campbell
Government
Cargo
Soldier
Thousand
Thousand Times
Potential
Purpose
Cheaper
Practical
Buildings
Train
Times
Than
Same
Current
Sensors
Used
Lapel
Uses
Many
When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.
Anthony Doerr
Single
Books
Several
Thousand
House
Around
Shelf
Boy
Fit
Owned
Stacked
Now
Surface streets are probably a hundred to a thousand times more complicated than highways.
Anthony Levandowski
Complicated
Hundred
Thousand
Thousand Times
More
Highways
Surface
Times
Than
Streets
Life lives on life - it is cruel, but it is God's will. And it is for our good, of course, because if there weren't little animals to eat up the young mussels, our canals would be choked by those shellfish, for each mother has more than a thousand young ones at a time!
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Life
God
Time
Good
Mother
Will
Animals
Young
Our
Those
Thousand
Would
Would-Be
Eat
More
Cruel
Course
Because
Were
Up
Than
Little
Choked
Each
Lives
Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.
Antony Garrett Lisi
Beautiful
Animal
Consists
Neighbors
Thousand
Individual
Head
Budding
Genetically
Identical
Unusual
Continually
Very
Each
Coral
And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.
Arthur Rock
Three
Hundred
Systems
Thousand
Data
Invested
Lead
Investor
Became
Scientific
Dollars
Intel
While
Board
Chairman
Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.
Atul Gawande
Great
You
Ignorance
Struggle
Think
Medicine
Our
Ways
Complexity
Thousand
About
Uncertainty
Head
Wrong
Days
Also
Make
Sure
How
How Much
Go
Just
Much
Your
Things
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell
Man
Be Happy
Happy
World
Books
Possible
At Least One
Thousand
Himself
Least
Surround
Ordinary
Place
Which
Ordinary Man
Two
When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.
Ban Ki-moon
Life
Food
Mind
First
Enough
Unable
Thousand
Find
Prices
Days
Permanent
Surge
His
Families
Child
Afford
Happens
Poor
Themselves
Body
Suddenly
Her
Damage
In a small lab, if you make a mistake, you can go in the next day and fix it. But here, when you are committed to spending a hundred thousand or a million dollars, you can't fix it later. You need to have a system of checks and balances internally. In particle physics, that's just part of the structure.
Barry Barish
Day
You
Mistake
Physics
Hundred
Spending
Later
System
Thousand
Structure
Small
Part
Particle
Checks
Checks And Balances
Make
Balances
Go
Dollars
Lab
Fix
Committed
Just
Next
Million
Million Dollars
Here
Need
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
Barry Humphries
Three
Country
Sheep
Think
Thirty
Thousand
New
Human
New Zealand
Whom
Zealand
Million
When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for a very short period of time, perhaps only six months, and that's not long enough to know whether there are any medium- or long-term side effects.
Ben Goldacre
Time
You
People
Long
Few
Enough
Medium
Side
Months
Thousand
Something
Only
Long-Term
New
Perhaps
Know
Period
Tested
Been
Effects
Very
Any
Often
Six
Short
Short Period
Whether
Prescribe
Prescribing
Now I'm standing in front of a thousand people. They're all looking at me, but they're sitting down. They're surrendered, so I have to keep on proving myself to them and giving them all my passion.
Benjamin Clementine
Myself
Me
People
Passion
Giving
Looking
Down
Thousand
Proving
Sitting
Front
Them
Standing
Keep
Now
The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Work
Truth
Day
Every Day
Judge
Nothing
Every
Hundreds
Thousand
Thousand Times
Would
Easy
Find
Followed
Cases
More
Could
Throughout
Had
He
Suppose
Courts
Times
Goes
Any
Deciding
Process
Which
Land
Might
Farther
Describe
You've got a league with a couple thousand players or so depending on the time of year. Then you have 10 or more very high profile stories that are terrible stories and things that have happened.
Benjamin Watson
Time
You
Year
High
Thousand
More
High-Profile
League
Couple
Terrible
Got
Very
Depending
Stories
Happened
Then
Profile
Things
Players
Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office.
Betty Hill
Vote
Smart
Every
Thirty
Out
Thousand
Running
Office
Candidate
Sent
A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.
Billy Crystal
Myself
Great
You
Strange
People
Once
Laugh
Thousand
Weird
Feel
Couple
Proud
Making
Sound
Causing
Get
Really
I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.
Billy Gardell
You
Older
Those
Thousand
Perfect
Feel
Like
Been
Get
Just
Theaters
Acoustics
Mean
Shows
Now
The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.
Brian Greene
Naked
Few
Eye
Thousand
See
Toward
Naked Eye
Been
Years
Us
Streaming
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Brooks Adams
Hundred
Slight
Thousand
Select
He
Read
Readers
Five
Author
Difference
Influence
Whether
I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.
Bruno Mars
Love
Music
You
Heart
Simplicity
Thousand
Could
Songs
Sing
Just
To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.
Buddy Rich
You
Before
Think
Other
Symphony
Everything
Hundred
Hundred Years
Thousand
Exactly
Exactly What
Written
Drummers
Limited
Years
Them
Really
Creating
Why
Played
I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.
Caleb Carr
People
Three
Thousand
Horribly
Feel
Die
Died
Who
Vindicated
I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.
Cam Gigandet
Live
Everything
Thousand
Thousand Years
Tried
Could
Know
Still
Years
Anything
This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.
Campbell Brown
Business
Suffering
Social Media
Hell
Other
Kind
TV
Relief
Thousand
Must
Scene
New
Executives
Arrived
Trump
Managing
Social
Decline
Cuts
Platforms
Media
I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
Camryn Manheim
People
Jobs
Thousand
Throughout
Over
Deaf
Deaf People
Placed
Working
Career
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