• The fact is that, after twelve years and four hundred billion dollars, the Americans have built very little that is likely to stand on its own after they depart.

    NEWYORKER: General Principles

  • Papyrus, which started as a small family wholesale operation, has grown to include the brands Carlton Cards, American Greetings, Paper Thread, and four hundred and fifty Papyrus retail stores nationwide.

    FORBES: Papyrus Stores And Their Passion For Paper

  • In 1999, after seven prisoners tried to escape from Huntsville, Willingham and four hundred and fifty-nine other inmates on death row were moved to a more secure facility, in Livingston, Texas.

    NEWYORKER: Trial by Fire

  • Vice-President Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, who led the final talks, agreed to set the crucial threshold for the new tax rate for upper-income individuals at four hundred thousand dollars (and four hundred and fifty thousand dollars for families).

    NEWYORKER: The House of Pain

  • We must act, knowing that today's victories will be only partial, and that it will be up to those who stand here in four years, and forty years, and four hundred years hence to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare Philadelphia hall.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The ruling party still controlled three hundred and eleven out of four hundred and fifty-four seats, but the strong showing of the Islamists was a shock.

    NEWYORKER: The Contenders

  • Between 1906 and 1932, four hundred and five boys from Groton applied to Harvard.

    NEWYORKER: Live and Learn

  • Ambrose Bierce edges out Samuel Johnson in double overtime by a final score of a hundred and forty-four to a hundred and ten.

    NEWYORKER: Notable Quotables

  • Then, in November, he crashed, rolled off the hillside on black ice, a delivery of beer and lumber spilled four hundred feet, and that was the end of his reign as town hero.

    NEWYORKER: Or Else

  • In the fall of 2011, he sold two Mongolian oviraptor nests for more than three hundred and fifty dollars each, a tyrannosaurus ileum for five hundred and sixty-one dollars, a tyrannosaurus tooth for three hundred and twenty-five dollars, and a tyrannosaurus tail vertebra for four hundred and ten dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

  • In the last thirty days before the election, Whitaker and Baxter advertised in four hundred newspapers and on five hundred billboards.

    NEWYORKER: The Lie Factory

  • According to the CouchSurfing Web site, the average age of members is twenty-eight, with more than a third between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four (seven hundred and ninety-three members are between eighty and eighty-nine).

    NEWYORKER: You��re Welcome

  • Scott, at five feet four and two hundred and ten pounds, cut a memorable figure.

    NEWYORKER: A Pickpocket��s Tale

  • Banded with steel and coiled with thick rope at the ends, the Oak weighed four hundred and fifty-nine pounds it took five large men to carry it onstage.

    NEWYORKER: The Strongest Man in the World

  • He was only five feet four and a hundred and forty-five pounds, yet he could take a man forty pounds heavier, press him in the air sixteen times with one hand, and hold a mug of beer in the other without spilling it.

    NEWYORKER: The Strongest Man in the World

  • She has a reputation for reserve: for being likable but shy and thin-skinned, and not at all comfortable with the personal impact of having created a modern myth, sold four hundred and fifty million books, and inspired more than six hundred thousand pieces of Harry Potter fan fiction, a total that increases by at least a thousand stories a week.

    NEWYORKER: Mugglemarch

  • The four-hundred-metre race is a descendant of the 440 four hundred and forty yards, or two furlongs which was run at almost every Olympics until 1952.

    NEWYORKER: Glory Days

  • The big winner is William Shakespeare, with four hundred and fifty-five, topping even the Yahwist and his co-authors, the wordsmiths who churned out the Bible but managed to come up with only four hundred quotable passages.

    NEWYORKER: Notable Quotables

  • He found that between January of 2002 and June of 2008 some nine hundred people in the two buildings accounted for more than four thousand hospital visits and about two hundred million dollars in health-care bills.

    NEWYORKER: The Hot Spotters

  • "Steady at four hundred and twenty-five feet, sir, " reported a relieved Mr. Curtis.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Skybreaker'

  • "Four hundred and fifty-plus is always a mental advantage, " said the batsman.

    BBC: England ready to fight for draw, says batsman Cook

  • At least four hundred and fifty residents own shares in the onshore turbines, and a roughly equal number own shares in those offshore.

    NEWYORKER: The Island in the Wind

  • He spent years analyzing the teams behind four hundred and seventy-four productions, and charted the relationships of thousands of artists, from Cole Porter to Andrew Lloyd Webber.

    NEWYORKER: Groupthink

  • Let's repeat that: four hundred and forty seven billion pounds.

    BBC: Scottish independence: Fjords flowing with funds

  • In New York, the stock market is down, investors are withdrawing assets from his fund, and he has borrowed four hundred million dollars to cover a hole in his balance sheet.

    NEWYORKER: Risky Business

  • Currently, Variety Wholesalers owns several chains of discount stores, among them Roses, Maxway, Super 10, and Bargain Town, amounting to more than four hundred outlets in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions.

    NEWYORKER: State for Sale

  • His temperature climbed to a hundred and four degrees.

    NEWYORKER: The Checklist

  • He now employs four hundred and twenty people.

    NEWYORKER: Sole Mate

  • To many this would have been proof of his good fortune, for a man blessed with two hundred and four family members was a rich man indeed, but abundance gave the ascetically inclined Senior a permanent low-level headache.

    NEWYORKER: In the South

  • Four hundred and two were accepted.

    NEWYORKER: Live and Learn

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