The archaeological record can test this hypothesis throughhundredsandthousandsof years.
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It is not obvious, for example, that informal institutions necessarily persist forhundredsandthousandsof years, and that they are on average more persistent than, for example, contract law.
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The city therefore attractshundredsandthousandsof tourists a year.
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We havehundredsandthousandsof people on the waiting list.
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There arehundredsandthousandsof them who give help to their constituents in every way they can.
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It was a good line while it lasted; it wonhundredsandthousands, even millions, of votes.
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There are probablyhundredsandthousandsof names in all parts of the country which ought to be, but are not, on the registers.
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Who is going to erecthundredsandthousandsof workmen's cottages at a cost of from £400 to £500?
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Apart from this, we havehundredsandthousandsof houses which are structurally sound but which lack the most elementary amenities.
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The throwing of matches, cigarette ends, and the like destroyhundredsandthousandsof acres of valuable property of this kind.
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Men are at home inhundredsandthousands.
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There will not behundredsandthousandsof these young men concerned.
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The market price is the synthesis of thehundredsandthousandsof buyers and sellers every morning.
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There arehundredsandthousandsof men in the trade unions to-day who are in the same position.
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Where are thehundredsandthousandsof pounds, the £15,000 at a time, paid into a certain political party's funds for the purchase of a peerage?
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