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How to use the word 5,700 in a Sentence? Page #5

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There’s a big push to get veterans into housing by the end of the year, here I am, four months later. As the five-year target runs out, and the cold of winter edges closer, thousands of our nation's finest remainwithout a home. While homelessness among America's finest has improved nationwide, it is still rising in 17 states, andthere's been a 13 percent increase in Washington, D.C., where 1 in every 50 veterans remains homeless, according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness. As many as 840,000 men and women who have served in the uniform of the United States went to sleepwithout a home on at least one night in 2014, according to the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans andon any given night. Many combat veterans find themselves homeless through the evil of drug addiction -- ofevery 10 veterans returning from overseas conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, one of them suffers fromsubstance abuse, according to the Veterans Affairs Administration. And one in every three of those veterans is also suffering from Post-Tramatic Stress Disorder( PTSD). Manyfall through the cracks, get lost in the bureaucratic flurry of papers, and disappear onto the streets. Yet the United States has begun to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees -- at an estimated resettling cost of $ 15,700 each, according the State Department, despite the plight of thousands of veterans still left out in thecold. In several interviews conducted by LifeZette around DC, many of these veterans are looking out forthemselves, and are n’t waiting on elusive aid from the federal government or the president. I ’d really love the opportunity to get a job, Darr said, his voice choking a bit as he looked away, becauseLord knows, it’s humiliating.

Paul Darr

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We achieved a 40 percent annulment of the original decision, which means $700 million less, but they're ordering us to pay around $1 billion, we've presented a proposal to OXY ... and with this final decision we'll continue to negotiate.

Rafael Correa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s incomprehensible with the sophisticated weather routing technology that’s available that an over 700-foot merchant vessel can be caught in the middle of a previously forecasted hurricane.

Andrew Buchsbaum

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Governments must draw up and enforce policies that end child marriage, and create alternatives for girls and their families, if governments and civil society organizations don't act now, the number of women married in childhood will increase from more than 700 million today to 1.2 billion by 2050.

Lakshmi Sundaram

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

4,700 people are celebrating right now, they're getting a huge boost in pay, in their next paycheck they will be paid $15.24 an hour.

Heather Weiner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The problem with the TTB is they are underfunded and understaffed, there were 10 craft distilleries in 2003; now there are 700 new distilleries with individual labels for each product to be approved. The delays are holding back the economic power of the sector.

Ralph Erenzo

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

For example, it is 700 kilometers (435 miles) from Iliret to Marsabit town, on a very bad road, and 300 kilometers (185 miles) from Loiyangalani to the head office, with public transport charging up to 2,000 shillings ($22) one way.

Guyo Galicha Iyya

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This expression is more commonly seen in the classical period, specifically in the eighth century between the years 700 CE to 800 CE, which is the last century of the Mayan culture and very close to its collapse, in the years following 800 CE, the Mayan cities started to collapse. That (event) has a strong relationship with the frequency of the number of wars which began in this century.

Guillermo Bernal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have calculated 700 terawatt hours (TWh) of additional, potential gas demand if the current diesel and gasoline-based car and truck fleets in Germany were switched to natural gas.

Christopher Delbrueck

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That would give us £2,500 ($3,700).

Sam Harrison

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The first details came from one of the survivors who spoke English and who said that at least 700 people, if not more, were on board. The boat capsized because people moved to one side when another vessel that they hoped would rescue them approached, lOOKING FOR A BETTER LIFE.

Carlotta Sami

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Guess what our fine was to get out of jail? $700.

Bobby Smith

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The idea is to ensure that there are clear border entry points, it's not that you're going to put up a 700 km wall.

Mwenda Njoka

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The consequences of a railroad accident with 700 or 1,200 migrants on board would have been very regrettable, we can't be so irresponsible as to allow migrants to continue risking their lives on a freight line that has all the deficiencies it has.

Ardelio Vargas

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Ground forces supported by nearly 2,000 air strikes now have reclaimed some 700 square kilometers.

John Kerry

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Overall deployment of the 700-stong Chinese infantry battalion and its equipment will take more than two months to complete.

Brian Kelly

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the recent period about 700 new fighters pledged allegiance, and so they are now more than 1,000 fighters.

Abbas Ibrahim

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Afghanistan's cricket board does not support cricket for women, even though I have 3,700 girl cricketers across Afghanistan, i hope their attitude will change.

Diana Barakzai

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They offer a rare glimpse into the informal or private world of medieval monks, personally, I love the thumbprint, which was left by a careless scribe who spilled ink on his work. It seems so fresh and human, yet it happened 700 years ago.

Dr Kwakkel

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Jerusalem has been our capital for 3,000 years. Beit El and Hebron have been our land for 3,600-3,700 years. Any Jew or Christian or Muslim can open a Bible and read it. You have it there.

Naftali Bennett

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It's an insane tragedy that 700,000 people get a diploma each year and can't read the damned diploma.

William E. Brock

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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