Sentence examples for thousand compared from inspiring English sources

The Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the real number at a thousand, compared with fourteen hundred in the final months of Obama's Presidency.

(The number of arrests has, in fact, been small — a couple of thousand — compared with the fifteen thousand arrests in October of 1961, when Algerians were demonstrating in Paris).

According to the United Nations, the number of civilian casualties caused last year by the Taliban and other insurgents was several thousand, compared with 828 civilian deaths attributed to American, NATO and Afghan forces, mostly from airstrikes and village raids.

Such arrangements do exist in other comparable health services, though not as a cost-saving measure, and typically in countries with much higher ratios of doctors to patients than in the UK – Sweden and Germany, for example, have 3.9 per thousand compared with the UK's 2.7.

The recent quarter reported a loss of $129.0 thousand, compared to a gain of $40.6 thousand last year.

In the US, a few thousand compared to 3.7 million children who entered kindergarten in 2005 took advantage of religious exemptions.

(During Obama's first term, the average number of deportations per year was close to four hundred thousand, compared with two hundred and fifty thousand under President Bush).

There were forty-two murders in Baltimore in May, compared with twenty-three the previous May; in June, there were twenty-nine, compared with eighteen the year before; in July, forty-five, compared with twenty-two; in August, thirty-three, compared with twenty-six.

China has 166 cities with populations over one million, compared with nine in the United States.

Annual sales of duck stamps have hovered around 1.5 million, compared with two million in the 1970s.

Revenue declined 6.5percentto to £2.1 billion, compared with £2.3 billion a year earlier.