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The 100,000 figure cited in court on Friday represented the first time the government had quantified the number of revoked visas.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2017

“It was a colossal effort,” says Paine, and the first time that anyone had quantified the influence of so many species in a community.

From Scientific American • Jan. 16, 2013