A millirem is one-thousandth of an REM roentgen equivalent man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuclear Alert! Hot Broccoli!] Reference

Today, the oarsmen can direct water to nearly one-thousandth of a degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 Archives] Reference

They fit because a bacterium is one-thousandth the size of a typical human cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germs That Are Good For You] Reference

Draw a line under the top 0.1 percent of income earners - the top one-thousandth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thursday, June 30, 2005] Reference

The diameter of the individuals was found to be one one-thousandth of a millimeter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

To at least be able to show her one one-thousandth of the deep love I have for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lazy Daze] Reference

We give about one-thousandth of our Gross National Product for development assistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2002] Reference

I would have loved to have had one-thousandth of the attention he received from Andre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remember Me, Irene] Reference

As little as one one-thousandth of an ounce per 1,000 pounds of body weight can be lethal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference

She never should have become involved with the man, she told herself for the one-thousandth time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Condition]

However, even the larger of these figures would only represent one one-thousandth of all Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Only 400 people showed up] Reference

Argo had joined the gyre of matter here, which swung about True Center at one-thousandth light speed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Furious Gulf]

As I said, the average adherent is not one-thousandth of a degree better than the average non-adherent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Caritas in Veritate:] Reference

Interestingly, in case of both these products Sri Lanka consumes about one-thousandth part of the total.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » The mobile way in Sri Lanka] Reference

The presence of salt to the extent of one-thousandth of the weight of the soil, has a prejudicial effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

Measurements of velocity were made within 5 millimeters per second, or one-thousandth of a mile per hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apollo Communications] Reference

Queen of my life and of my soul, oh! that you could grant me but one-thousandth part of the love I bear you!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Two Brides] Reference

Either way, after 40-50 years, the heat and radioactivity have fallen to one-thousandth of the level at removal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuclear waste management] Reference

Provide clean surroundings for cows when calving, and in addition to this have a one in one-thousandth solution of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Veterinarian] Reference

"I was gesticulating and my shirt slipped up slightly to reveal about one one-thousandth of an inch of my stomach.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conversation: Elisabeth Hasselbeck Really Gets Us Going] Reference

Though they make up only one one-thousandth of humanity, the Georgians created one of the world's fourteen alphabets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Europe Vanishes] Reference

Of the three and a half billion people on Earth, less than an estimated one-thousandth of one percent were telepathic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Penal Cluster] Reference

He is one tenth, one one-hundredth or one one-thousandth, but nevertheless we forgot about Mr. Agnew in what, overnight?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Presidency] Reference

Each of these contains one-thousandth part of a grain of physostigmine sulphate, a quantity which is perfectly efficient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

The only money the U.S. government issues are coins, which compose only about one one-thousandth of the U.S. money supply (M3).    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter To The United Nations: How To Cut Sustainable Energy Costs In Half] Reference

That is 3520 feet per minute and 58.66 feet (704 inches) per second or .05866 feet (.704 inch) in one one-thousandth of a second.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shotgun Myth] Reference

The DMR measured differences in temperature as small as one-thousandth of a degree in the microwave radiation between two points.    From Wordnik.com.  [George F. Smoot - Autobiography] Reference

Today, coins are the only money issued by the U.S. government, and they compose only about one one-thousandth of the money supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Market Meltdown: The End of a 300 Year Ponzi Scheme] Reference

Their ideal black hole would have a mass of about a million metric tons and would be about one one-thousandth the size of a proton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Hole Drive Could Power Future Starships | Universe Today] Reference

The lithium is stored in a forest of tiny silicon nanowires, each with a diameter one-thousandth the thickness of a sheet of paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Nanowire Battery Holds 10 Times The Charge Of Existing Ones « Isegoria] Reference

They can tell the difference between a 6X and a 7X tippet, for example, even though it's only one-thousandth of an inch in diameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [10 Tactics For Catching Late-Summer, Low-Water Trout on Small Flies] Reference

The tiny tubes made of carbon are one 10-thousandth the diameter of a human hair and one one-thousandth a hair's diameter in length.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space elevators] Reference

The Proudly South African Campaign has received its one-thousandth member at a ceremony in Cape Town on Friday, SABC radio news reported.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Until the Pleistocene Era, which ended 10,000 years ago, less than one one-thousandth of 1 percent of the earth's surface belonged to man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Search For Hidden Life] Reference

Paris-Roubaix, which he lost at the line by one-thousandth of a second.    From Wordnik.com.  [PezCyclingNews.com]