thousand-odd

• “I work with a fair number of legal documents, and I can tell you its lunacy to think we would sign any thousand-odd page document after three days of review only by a bunch of “summarizers”, even one without an $800B price tag.”

  Matthew Yglesias » The Pointlessness of Reading Bills

• “At the conference in Orlando, Fla., that starts Sunday, the chief executives of some of these companies will urge the thousand-odd attendees to follow in their footsteps, according to HCL.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Indian Tech Firms Look to Hire Abroad

• “That's right, since all our ancestors were way back in the early Stone Age contesting survival and appetite with lions and sabre-teeth and woolly rhinos and such, and without prospect of any easier way of life for eighty or ninety-odd thousand years or two thousand-odd of their goodish lifetimes of trial and error and struggle.”

  Printing: Size Matters

• “(ED: not having read any of the thousand-odd posts in the previous Busey threads, allow me to apologize well in advance for the inevitable joke-stealing)”

  HO HUM, BUSEY IN A STRAITJACKET AGAIN

• “At first the others in the theater laughed at the one student, but within a few seconds, all thousand-odd attendees were on their feet, including one on crutches.”

  Natasha Chen: High School Dismisses Class to Watch Inauguration

• “The crowd had grown so large that I thought all of Stratford, all two thousand-odd souls in the place, had gathered there above the forlorn and sodden body of the dead man.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wicked Will

• “The delusion and its misuse started five thousand-odd years ago, when a few found that suckers would believe that a bit of metal imprinted with a head had more value than a bit of metal without a head.”

  Extinction? - or . . .

• “Two thousand-odd delegates sat in a strict hierarchy, some in colorful regional or military costumes, as they listened to speeches and rubber-stamped backroom deals.”

  Newsweek: The Self-Absorbed Dragon

• “This is a claim that not even the most committed opponents of obesity would make, and mainstream medicine is divided on whether Delaney and his thousand-odd followers are merely harmless kooks, or dangerous kooks.”

  Newsweek: STARVE YOUR WAY TO HEALTH

• “He argues that his thousand-odd men in Iraq are not trigger-happy, and blames trial lawyers and congressional staffers for hyping false stories.”

  Newsweek: The Man Behind Blackwater

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