1.   Assessments of the remnant force have varied from the low hundreds to the low thousands.

2.   In Saurimo, a town with a population that is probably in the low thousands, diamonds are not visibly for sale.

3.   Participants numbered in the low thousands, Alan Porter, a San Francisco Web designer, said Tuesday.

4.   Such services number their subscribers in the very low thousands.

5.   Their numbers are said to be in the high hundreds or low thousands.

6.   No official count has been made, but estimates of the number of civilians killed by American bombing range into the low thousands.