Sentence examples for approaching a thousand from inspiring English sources
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(In Afghanistan, the number of service members who didn't make it home is fast approaching a thousand).
After four months and nine days of staring into this monitor for what has probably amounted in aggregate to something closely approaching a thousand hours, that's enough.
There are approaching a thousand qualifying games, a thousand calls on players, a thousand interruptions to the clubs around the world who actually pay the fees, the wages and the medical costs for those stars.
In billows of chalk, the Downs rise from the sea and go on rising northward to elevations approaching a thousand feet, culminating in the escarpment that plunges to the Weald.
Core, mantle, crust — they are models of the very planet they are filling up at a rate worldwide approaching a billion a year.
The New Yorker's Twitter feed (@newyorker) is approaching a million followers.
He pegged the Oscar audience as, variously, "a billion," "an estimated billion," "approaching a billion," "a reported billion," and "more than a billion".
By The New Yorker August 18 ,2011 The New Yorker's Twitter feed (@newyorker) is approaching a million followers.
Before the economic downturn, the Mugrabis said that the value of their collection was approaching a billion dollars.
