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Studies on reishi mushrooms are currently too small and short-term to be statistically significant, despite them being used medicinally in Asian cultures for thousands of years.

From BBC

"There's got to be thousands of people in the same boat as I am."

From BBC

This week, thousands of Communist Party delegates are meeting in Beijing to discuss a roadmap for the world's second-largest economy as it continues to battle low consumption, a prolonged property crisis and huge local debt.

From BBC

As thousands of Tottenham fans streamed out of their stadium at half-time on Thursday, no one could have been in any doubt about the threat of relegation.

From BBC

Any asset freeze is unlikely to cover all accounts held by Iranian companies and nationals, hundreds of thousands of whom live in the U.A.E., analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal