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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.

Indian Tech Firms Look to Hire Abroad Megha Bahree 2011

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 2009

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 2010

(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 2008

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.

Size Matters 2010

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.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

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 2009

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.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

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 . . . 2007

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.

The Self-Absorbed Dragon 2007