It also created the opportunity to redevelop the vacant space in Robert Smirke's 19th-century central quadrangle into the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court – the largest covered square in Europe – which opened in 2000.

The Great Court opened in December 2000 and is the largest covered square in Europe.

In June 2000, she donated $ 40 million to the Hamilton Community Foundation to be used largely in improvement of Hamilton-area health facilities, an act that represented one of the single largest charitable donations in Canadian history.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Canada had 69 companies in the list, ranking 5th next to France.

To further highlight the difference between a problem and an instance, consider the following instance of the decision version of the traveling salesman problem: Is there a route of at most 2000 kilometres in length passing through all of Germany's 15 largest cities?

Ecuador's economy is the eighth largest in Latin America and experienced an average growth of 4. 6 % between 2000 and 2006.

Colombia is by far the worlds largest producer of emeralds, constituting 50-95 % of the world production, with the number depending on the year, source and emeralds grade .< ref > Emerald production in Colombia has increased drastically in the last decade, increasing by 78 % in 2010 compared to production in 2000.

The largest site is Geocaching. com, owned by Groundspeak Inc., which began operating on September 2, 2000.

The Hanover fairground, due to numerous extensions, especially for the Expo 2000, is the largest in the world.

The largest loyalty program in Germany is Payback, which was launched in 2000.

In 2000 the country was the tenth largest producer in the world ( See table ).

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Mexico had 16 companies in the list.

* 2000 – The U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.

The largest snow event since 2000 was on January 16, 2003, when Nashville received of snow in a single storm ; the largest on record was, received on March 17, 1892.

Between 2000 and 2008 Spain's economy had been credited with having avoided the virtual zero growth rate of some of its largest partners in the EU.

One of the largest of these is the annual Dragon * Con in Atlanta, Georgia with an attendance of more than 20, 000 since 2000.

The largest single-dish radio telescope in Europe is the 100-meter diameter antenna in Effelsberg, Germany, which also was the world's largest fully steerable telescope for 30 years until the slightly larger Green Bank Telescope was opened in West Virginia, United States, in 2000.

This state was the largest state of India by area until 2000.

However, a large proportion of catches is not reported at species level ; in the FAO fishery statistics, the category " Croakers, drums, not elsewhere included ", is the largest one within Sciaenidae, with annual landings of 431, 000 – 780, 000 tonnes in 2000 – 2009, most of which were reported from the Western Indian Ocean ( FAO fishing area 51 ) and Northwest Pacific ( FAO fishing area 61 ).

According to the 2000 U. S. Census, the Cherokee Nation has more than 300, 000 members, the largest of the 565 federally recognized Native American tribes in the United States.

As reported in 2000, the 7 largest hydro power plants ( Longyangxia, Lijiaxia, Liujiaxia, Yanguoxia, Bapanxia, Daxia and Qinglongxia ) had the total installed capacity of 5, 618 MW.

The Øresund Bridge ( which includes a 3 km tunnel ) between Danish capital Copenhagen and the largest city of Scania, Malmö was inaugurated on 1 July 2000 by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

* Reidar Sveaas, director of P & O Maritime Ltd. and honorary consul to Auckland said in 2000 that excellent opportunities existed for New Zealand to trade with the world's second largest oil-producing country, Norway.

In 2000, the largest denominational group was the Catholics ( with 19, 965 adherents ).

In 2000, the largest denominational group was the Catholics ( with 25, 837 adherents ) and Evangelical Protestants ( with 12, 548 adherents ).

As of the 2000 RCMS, the three largest denominational groups in Franklin County are Catholic, Mainline Protestant, and Orthodox.

In 2000, the largest denominational group was the Evangelical Protestants ( with 10, 229 adherents ) and Mainline Protestants ( with 3, 593 adherents ).

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives ' 2000 Metro Area Membership Report, the denominational groups of the Spokane MSA are 43, 397 Evangelical Protestant ; 32, 207 Mainline Protestant ; 776 Orthodox ; 57, 187 Catholic ; 17, 351 Other ; and 267, 021 Unclaimed.

In March 2000, more than 60 women's groups organized demonstrations in Casablanca proposing reforms to the legal status of women in the country.

On January 21, 2000, during demonstrations in Quito by indigenous groups, the military and police refused to enforce public order, beginning what became known as the 2000 Ecuadorean coup d ' état.

Category: Musical groups reestablished in 2000

The Chinese remained disproportionately powerful in Malaysian economic life, but by 2000 the distinction between Chinese and Malay business was fading as many new corporations, particularly in growth sectors such as information technology, were owned and managed by people from both ethnic groups.

* The Southern Cushites were the second earliest inhabitants of Kenya after the indigenous Bushman hunter-gatherer groups, and the first of the Cushitic-speaking peoples to migrate from their homeland in the Horn of Africa about 2000 years ago.

In March 2000, women's groups organised demonstrations in Casablanca proposing reforms to the legal status of women in the country.

* " The Great Wall of Mars " ( 2000 ) by Alastair Reynolds, in which the most technologically advanced faction of humans is based on Mars and embroiled in an interplanetary war ; introduced some of the most important characters and groups in the Revelation Space universe.

These groups are perhaps more fortunate than the Wa and Shan ethnic groups who have become Internally Displaced Peoples in their own state since being removed from lands by the military junta in 2000.

Between 2000 and 2010, four out of ten households ( 41 %) reported having experience displacement: 29 % reported displacement caused by armed groups ’ movements, 9 % identified ridos ( blood feuds ), and 9 % identified other causes, such as economic displacement ( 3 %) or natural disasters ( 2 %).

PLAN task groups also paid visits to Indonesia in 1995 ; North Korea in 1997 ; New Zealand, Australia, and the Philippines in 1998 ; Malaysia, Tanzania, South Africa, the United States, and Canada in 2000 ; and India, Pakistan, France, Italy, Germany, Britain, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand in 2001.

When the gallery opened in 2000, the collections were not displayed in chronological order but were rather arranged thematically into four broad groups each allocated a wing on levels 3 and 5 ( now levels 2 and 4 ):

Ethnic groups: ( 2000 census )

In the United States, prior to the formation of adoption groups, over 20, 000 retired greyhounds a year were killed ; recent estimates still number in the thousands, with the industry claiming that about 90 % of National Greyhound Association-registered animals either being adopted, or returned for breeding purposes ( according to the industry numbers upwards of 2000 dogs are still euthanized annually in the US while anti-racing groups estimating the figure at closer to 12, 000.

According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Clay County were African 56. 3 %, English 35 % and Scots-Irish 4. 5 %.

According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Montgomery County were African 44. 95 %, English 42. 1 %, and Scots-Irish 1 %.

In 2000 Regan Tamanui started the first Stuckist group outside Britain in Melbourne, Australia, and it was decided that other artists should be free to start their own groups also, named after their locality.

According to the 2000 Census the largest European ancestry groups in Marion County were English ( 18. 7 %), German ( 16. 7 %) and Irish ( 14. 0 %).

In China, the Evenki form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, with a population of 30, 505, as per 2000 Census.

( 1999 ), and Mattern and McLennan ( 2000 ) consider Acinonyx, Puma concolor, and Puma (= Herpailurus ) yagouaroundi as representatives of closely related sister groups.

According to the CSUCS 2004 Global Report on the Use of Child Soldiers, there were at least nine documented suicide attacks involving Palestinian minors between October 2000 and March 2004: but also stated, " There was no evidence of systematic recruitment of children by Palestinian armed groups.

According to the 2000 Census, the largest European ancestry groups in Nassau County were: English ( 36. 2 %), Irish ( 13. 6 %) and German ( 11. 7 %).

According to census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in St. Lucie County were: English 34 %, African 15 %, Irish 14 %, German 13 %, Italian 10 %.