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  • In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
  • Does the plain, unsugared doughy type bagel look alike surpass the overly decorated with hundreds and thousands and pumped full of sweet chemicals with optional coating of chocolate (half dipped) Tescos Express doughnut win every time? Rabbit Stew. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Then there are the PIP implant problems that thousands of women have had to contend with. The Sun
  • Bounties were paid right across a banking sector whose incompetence threw thousands of innocents into jeopardy. Times, Sunday Times
  • A few uncounted votes or a few thousand voters turned away can be the difference between a national victory or not.
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  • Human relations do not always rely on meeting each other in person every day. When we talk about relationships between people on either side of the border, just a few thousand miles can’t keep love from growing and blooming into a beautiful bonding. Gulzar 
  • The huge amounts that this would bring in would allow the personal allowance to be raised by a couple of thousand, helping those on low and medium incomes.
  • At the beginning of the war, the Nationalist forces had eighty thousand men. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
  • Together, they were able to mollify workers and quietly implement the destruction of thousands of jobs.
  • Day after day thousands of people die of confessing their loyalty to the Tokugawa shogunate.
  • We have increased by tens of thousands the number of surgical procedures being carried out in this country.
  • Thousands died on the seas while they were being shipped like caged cattle between continents.
  • Thousands of householders are being urged to redesign their gardens to halt the rapid decline of sparrows and starlings. Times, Sunday Times
  • For 10,000,000 years during the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs this area was a fiery inferno of constant volcanic activity and magnificent giants such as the Grizaba, La Malinche, Iztaccihuatl, Popocatepetl, Volcan de Toluca and Volcan de Colima, along with thousands of smaller volcanic cones, came into eruptive existence. The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico
  • And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them a hundred chariots. 1 Chronicles 18.
  • The drug will be useful to hundreds of thousands of infected people.
  • It nearly brought a tear to my eye when I saw thousands of screaming fans watching a bunch of (and I use the term affectionately) nerds out there doing their thing. Sun Bloggers
  • Records, is among the thousands of devoted followers who have raised figure skating to new heights of popularity.
  • Thousands of free apples and oranges will be handed out each day as the government urges in-school tuck shops to serve healthier snacks.
  • Certainly observant Jews remember the crusaders as evil butchers, who on their way to Jerusalem, slaughtered and massacred many thousands of Jews and decimated entire Jewish communities such as Speyer, Worms and Mayencea and of course, when they arrived in Jerusalem, put the holy Jews of the city to the sword. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Well, sir, I won't say anything about the hextry gas, though a poor widder and sevenpence hextry on the thousand, but I'm thinkin 'if you would give my Rosie a lesson once a week on that there pianner, it would be a kind of set-off, for you know, sir, the policeman tells me your winder is a landmark to' im on the foggiest nights. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
  • See, Stuart is like all the rest of the blood thirsty criminals in D.C., … ya seel hundreds of thousands more brown people will be killed because he's arrognt enough, he's evil enough and doggonnit Satan likes him! Franken Tells Pickens To Blow it Elsewhere « Antiwar.com Blog
  • As we got closer, a face so old and cragged with such deep wrinkles they looked like sun-baked crevasses formed by thousand of years of standing in the wind and rain. Guanajuato restaurants
  • The sight of the fireball was followed by a sonic boom as the meteorite exploded into thousands of pieces over Barwell near Leicester. Times, Sunday Times
  • What we come twenty thousand miles to get is worth saving, sir. Moby Dick
  • At twenty thousand meters, with the pods still traveling at a high velocity, parachutes billowed out from the same boxes that had contained the glider wings.
  • Poland has ten symphony orchestras, seventeen conservatories, over one hundred music schools, and almost one thousand music centers.
  • Foreign exchange deposit bargain is 42 stir thousand catty develop a financial product.
  • Thousands of people applied for the 200 seats available for the public at the reburial. Times, Sunday Times
  • My ships have now unloaded five thousand tons of kit for five and a half thousand troops -- that's nearly a ton each! ONE HUNDRED DAYS
  • The government fell nine days after an invasion force of five thousand troops was said to be advancing on the capital.
  • The organisers are hoping that families, schools, groups and businesses will plant thousands of sunflowers. Times, Sunday Times
  • thousand of time i have thought of you .my heart is going high into the air and flying with my blessing towards you i don't care loneliness. i am satisfied when you are happy and i am happy when i think of you!
  • Three hundred thousand corpses in sandy mass graves cry out that the war was just. Tragedy of Tony Blair
  • English has hurt me a thousand times, but I still regard it as my first love.
  • Thousands of people flocked to the Malton Racing Stables Open Day, when 18 stables around Malton and Norton opened their doors to a fascinated public.
  • And four dragger captains fined two thousand apiece for fishing redfish in closed waters. THE SHIPPING NEWS
  • Slips, trips and falls are a very common cause of accidents with hundreds of thousands of incidents reported each year.
  • Her verbal spontaneity ruffled far too many feathers even if it attracted admiration from thousands of radicals and feminists.
  • Thousands logged on to view the live Internet broadcast of the concert.
  • From almost two hundred field offices, more than two thousand special agents teletyped all new data daily to Headquarters in Washington, where an army of clerks indexed it for easy retrieval.
  • Thousands of people can live in a hutong which is made up of hundreds of quadrangular courtyards each surrounded by four homes.
  • 'I knew a case once where an heir who expected a large sum of money was bequeathed a family Bible, which he threw into the fire, learning afterwards, to his dismay, that it contained many thousands of pounds in Bank of England notes, the object of the devisor being to induce the legatee to read the good Book or suffer through the neglect of it.' The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont
  • Throne of God, by tens, by hundreds, by thousands, the harmonious and multisonant salutation of all the Voices. The Captive
  • Thousands of miles of unspoilt coastline, isolated and untouched lakes and pristine mountain ranges are there for the discovering.
  • When they got to Lisbon there was a telex from Tex Weston offering to buy the aircraft for ten thousand pounds. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
  • In the seven games that they won the young squad travelled thousands of kilometres, lording it over 191 other contesting schools.
  • Thousands of animists joined the Church in 2000 and 1000 adult catechumens are scheduled to be received this Easter.
  • She splurged 30 thousand on a fur coat.
  • Thousands of visitors are set to descend on York when the five-day festival of horse racing and pageantry comes to the city in June next year.
  • The loss of the plant led to thousands of children dying from malaria, tuberculosis and other treatable diseases.
  • But the 38-year-old house husband proved he has an eye for a bargain by claiming a basketful of prizes worth thousands of pounds.
  • Besides, he caused a general visitation to be made of all the land from Quito to Chile, registering the whole population for more than a thousand leagues; and imposed a tribute [_so heavy that no one could be owner of a_ mazorca _of maize, which is their bread for food, nor of a pair of_ usutas, _which are their shoes, nor marry, nor do a single thing without special licence from Tupac Inca. History of the Incas
  • Inside are row upon row of metal shelving on rails, containing thousands of boxes stacked to the ceiling. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are thousands of film festivals around the world, many as welcoming to the casual visitor as they are to movie industry bigwigs. Times, Sunday Times
  • The increase will hurt small business and cost many thousands of jobs.
  • Since then thousands of artists have tried to bottle up its bright metallic sheen for themselves. The Sun
  • Even after all these thousands of years of human settlement, the vastness of Majipoor was such that ample room for expansion still remained. LORD PRESTIMION
  • The attack came amid a major upsurge in violence across the country that has left a thousand dead.
  • In theory, we were going to walk up the thousand steps, but neither of us could be bothered.
  • One penny with right is better than a thousand without right. 
  • Thousands of pounds worth of property have been stolen from properties on the outskirts of town in recent weeks.
  • Then, the bubble burst and thousands of investors were ruined.
  • Snorkelers can have a grand time floating just 30 feet above the stern, watching the divers below and the thousands of fish that live in the wreck.
  • Fifteen thousand bird watchers visit annually.
  • Developers and speculators were left holding thousands of new unsold condos creating the greatest buyer's market ever experienced in this part of the world, i.e. the supply (glut) of new condos far outnumbers the demand. Herd Mentality As it Applies to Real Estate in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
  • This led to a communal bloodbath in which hundreds of thousands were killed and many thousands more were expelled from their homes.
  • European missionaries converted thousands to Christianity.
  • Since Active Directory can scale to hundreds of thousands or even millions of objects, it's necessary to carve up the Active Directory database into sections, called naming contexts.
  • Viewing it from all angles the point is, it is discriminative criteria to reject siblings of non Jewish mothers on the logical basis that no female line could possibly hereditarily claim pure Jewish roots going back five thousand years. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Thousands of leaflets had been given to motorists passing through and 1,000 had been hand-delivered to addresses in the city centre.
  • Thousands of people perished in the earthquake.
  • About eighty thousand dollars per hour. BAD BOY BALLMER
  • LIZZIE: ( ironically ) With five thousand a year, would not matter if he warts and a leer.
  • Then they would disband the defeated regime's army, turning hundreds of thousands of trained soldiers into disgruntled potential insurgents.
  • Thousands of turtles drag themselves onto the beach and lay their eggs in the sand.
  • ’ Then did they ask a thousand questions of Don Quixote; but he would answer to none of them, and only requested them to give him some meat, and suffer him to sleep, seeing rest was most behooveful for him. The First Part. V. Wherein Is Prosecuted Former Narration of Our Knight’s Misfortunes
  • The pulse of war that beat from the West suggested the companionship of battling thousands; here was naught but silence, and himself, and possible death-dealing bullets from a myriad ambushes. War
  • Hungary, yet was my attorney obliged to solicit the instrument called ritter-diploma, for which, under pain of execution, I must pay two thousand florins. The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2
  • Thousands of young people are facing long-term unemployment.
  • I guess this reading room to contain five thousand books.
  • The company's reputation suffered when it had to recall thousands of products that were unsafe.
  • As I looked at these mines with their thousands of grinning natives and heard the rattle of gravel in the "jigs" my mind went back to Kimberley and the immense part that its glittering wealth played in determining the economic fate of South Africa. An African Adventure
  • And when he was before the prince, he excused himself so sagely that the prince and his council held him excused, and so he fell again into the prince's love and redeemed out his men by reasonable ransoms; and the chatelain was set to his ransom of ten thousand franks, the which he paid after. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • So she sware to him that she would not do him any hurt or ensorcell him, and bidding bring him a fine horse, saddled and bridled with a golden bridle and decked with trappings all of gold set with jewels, gave the old man a thousand dinars saying, Use this.’’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Mindless bots, driven not to dominate but to sell, sign up for thousands of free email accounts every minute, sending millions of spam messages from them.
  • That misprinted movie name is in hundreds of thousands of copies of The Great Unraveling; it will linger forever in the minds of many people who, like us journalists, don't know that there's an error to look for.
  • The heavy rain since Thursday has also caused flooding in many other parts of the city, inundating thousands of buildings.
  • Indians lived thousands of miles on every side from the sea, and had never seen it, yet they talked of the _pobbo mae re u_ -- the immense water; (_pobbo_, water; _mae_, great; _re_, the; _u_, an expression of magnification such as our _oh_). Across Unknown South America
  • When you reach the Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge, just south of town, mountain-bike a trail network among thousands of migratory birds, then cap it off with a swim in the nearby bioluminescent bay.
  • Her bold actions have elevated her to the status of national hero and prompted thousands of offers of marriage.
  • The company has been accused of mis-selling products to thousands of elderly investors.
  • The army's Quartermaster Corps, unaccustomed to providing for the needs of a wartime force, had disbursed flimsy, floorless tents; as a result, Grant and the rest of the four - thousand - man force slept in the cold mud, protected from the elements by thin woolen blankets. 'The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848'
  • We estimate the cost to be five thousand dollars.
  • Romoeuf, riding a franc etrier, on that old Herb-merchant's route, quickened during the last stages, has got to Varennes; where the Ten thousand now furiously demand, with fury of panic terror, that Royalty shall forthwith return Paris-ward, that there be not infinite bloodshed. The French Revolution
  • Castro brooked no opposition to his régime, and many Cubans started to flee the island, first by the hundreds, then by the thousands.
  • Situated on an elevated rock outcropping 15 km from Kurdjali, it has been regarded as a sacred site for thousands of years.
  • We saw long tailed ducks - thousands of them, packed together in rafts hundreds of metres long.
  • Like other presidents, Obama will appoint thousands of officials to his administration, and many high-ranking officials, including most members of his Cabinet, will have to be confirmed by the Senate.
  • Not only English society, but Indian princes and princesses, American millionaires, and Continental aristocrats attended this ball attired in sumptuous costumes worth thousands upon thousands of pounds. Mansions of Mayfair | Edwardian Promenade
  • Northbound Imperial flights, configure for aircraft above one-zero-thousand meters and sing out if you see anything. CHAINS OF COMMAND
  • I stood it until I became tortured day and night by the prod of reason, then I quietly left the church and bade farewell to the heathen Scapular and the ten thousand other trinkets of blind paganism, and resolved to break the chain of this "_slave of the soul_" and "_tyrant of reason_. Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
  • I mean, here's a skull that shows the Ainu, the Japanese aboriginal race, were in America nine thousand years ago. AMERICAN GODS
  • Tuxedo-clad waiters brought champagne and frou-frou hors d' oeuvres to the thousand guests sprawled throughout the grounds.
  • Blown in on the north-west monsoon without aid of any chart or astronomical observation, a thousand mariners, tide-driven, converge on the coral reefs.
  • Unemployment soared, thousands emigrated and the national debt spiralled out of control.
  • Several thousand supporters of Lesotho political parties, waving the multiple colours of party flags, on Monday participated in a demonstration against the "usurped" government of Prime ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The presentation of this "Judas," polemicizing as it was, was probably never meant to take on the historical and theological dimensions it has, traveling through the last two thousand years and leading up to the present, but with a stubborn toughness it has endured. Robert Eisenman: Redemonizing Judas: Gospel Fiction or Gospel Truth?
  • The birds spread across a rising slope of snow furrowed with ditches worn by thousands of penguin feet.
  • Tourism is Scotland's biggest industry, injecting at least #2.5 billion a year into the economy and employing hundreds of thousands of people.
  • Today, on the Sunday closest to what used to be called Armistice Day, thousands will gather around war memorials, in country churchyards and civic centres to remember the dead of armed conflicts since 1914.
  • I've seen a few of the files on various torrent sites, they are being leeched on by the thousand.
  • The effect of this mixture is a dilatation, which is nearly as four thousand to unity; and the lead in your barrel exhibits another effect, which is the product of its bulk multiplied by its velocity. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Five people died in the explosion and more than one thousand were injured. One person is still missing.
  • He hugged hundreds of babies, shook thousands of hands and cut ribbons at new universities, high-tech factories and a hospital.
  • Once school districts begin busing thousands (millions?) of children to NFL games for field trips, then maybe the comparison will be a little more genuine. Opera versus the NFL, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Success attended him, and the pacha, his predecessor, having in his opinion, as well as in that of the sultan, remained an unusual time in office, by an accusation enforced by a thousand purses of gold, he was enabled to produce a bowstring for his benefactor; and the sultan's "firmaun" appointed him to the vacant pachalik. The Pacha of Many Tales
  • “Some 1,700 apsaras sicare carved on the walls of Angkor Wat alone; thousands more – individual in dress, hairstyle, and ornamentation – appear in almost every Angkor temple, Hindu and Buddhist alike.” Angkor Wat Interactive on National Geographic | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context
  • For the southeastern district, assistant, thirty-six hundred Southeastern dollars; second assistant, three thousand dollars; deputy district attorney, such compensation as shall be fixed by the district attorney, with the approval of the chief justice of the superior court. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
  • This is going to affect thousands of people. Times, Sunday Times
  • The subway froze in its tracks, and thousands of people found themselves trapped in stuffy box cars and pitch-dark tunnels.
  • Notes on Robert Frost," which fill about two thousand pages of typescript; the original is at the University of Virginia, but there's a good copy at Dartmouth, which is where I read them. Brian Hall - An interview with author
  • Judge Porteous also engaged in corrupt conduct after the Lifemark v. Liljeberg bench trial, and while he had the case under advisement, in that he solicited and accepted things of value from both Amato and his law partner Creely, including a payment of thousands of dollars in cash. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Judge Thomas Porteous Impeached by U.S. House of Representatives,”
  • Ten thousand birds and an equal number of chicks constitute an enormous quantity of meat.
  • Three thousand audience crowded the concert hall.
  • Ten thousand people are reported to have taken part in the protest which passed off peacefully.
  • Thousands of people turned out to welcome the England team home.
  • As someone who has self-harmed, years ago, but also more recently, I can really identify, as I'm sure thousands of others do.
  • Afghans and from the Nizam, but what he most counted on for the expulsion of the English from the Carnatic was a force of thirty thousand French soldiers. History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8) Modern England, 1760-1815
  • As thousands of holidaymakers head off in search of the sun, most will have remembered to pack the sunscreen to protect their skin from the harmful rays. Times, Sunday Times
  • The batteries that power the electric motor cost thousands.
  • It amounts to a dark basement with shelving filled with film cans, reel-to-reel winders, thousands of press clippings and photos, stickers, flyers, and a tiny radio.
  • Giving birth, I suppose you'd say, expelling not one, nor even ten, but a thousand creatures; ten thousand. GALILEE
  • Thousands of cuneiform tablets and ancient Christian, Muslim and Jewish manuscripts are gone.
  • We weren't being asked to play riffs thousands of times until we got it right. The Sun
  • For the past six weeks tens of thousands of people have packed into stadiums and arenas to be in the presence of Madonna. Times, Sunday Times
  • They are also massively supported by volunteers who undertake thousands of hours of unpaid labour. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists are set to take part in Monday's annual " March on Washington" to mark the 34th anniversary of a Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
  • Thousands of pounds worth of drugs were seized in dawn raids yesterday.
  • Thousands of riot police will be lining the streets amid fears that either anarchists or terrorists will attempt to disrupt proceedings.
  • The Mpumalanga government on Tuesday warned that fraudulent licence syndicates, that issued thousands of fake drivers licences from former homeland testing centres throughout the province, had now moved their operations to major cities such as Witbank. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The Mercury said there were fears that the event, in which thousands of mostly adolescent girls parade bare-breasted wearing traditional beaded skirts, had become a target for pornography syndicates.
  • In the SOFAR channel, low frequency waves may travel thousands of miles before weakening.
  • Still relatively pricey, but much more affordable than spending tens of thousands of pounds on your own polo pony. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Banaue creations, covering thousands of hectares, are the world's finest example of rice terracing.
  • The whole thing has been a hideous blunder, and the idea of encumbering a force of four thousand men with something like thirty thousand camp followers, and with a train of no less than nineteen thousand bullocks, to say nothing of other draught animals, is the most preposterous thing I ever heard of. At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War
  • Phase II of the project will add another 15 MW of power, for a total of 25 MW, which is enough to power nearly fifteen thousand homes. New Geothermal Technology Could Tap 120,000MW of Energy | Inhabitat
  • It's a deal then?You'll pay me two thousand pounds for the car.
  • With hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of other rare breeds there, managers are also taking steps to improve security.
  • Thousands of foreign criminals are at large as the Government struggles to deport them, figures published yesterday show. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the first week of January, thousands of guilt-ridden people signed up for fitness courses or embarked on diets.
  • But with only a nonworking model available in late June, getting thousands of units on store shelves by the fall seems a stretch.
  • V. -- Your own fortune, father-in-law (in certain kinds of society they say _papa father-in-law_) yielding an income of twenty thousand, and which will soon be increased by an inheritance. Analytical Studies
  • The current batch of 11 twentysomethings were chosen from thousands at open auditions. Times, Sunday Times
  • For over 40 years he was one of the men responsible for literally bringing thousands of sick people to hospitals all over the country.
  • It was high, fifty thousand, but his lawyer's either got deep pockets or a running tab with a bail bondsman.
  • It was partially stripped and disassembled, basically thousands of parts in boxes and no directions!
  • Fifteen thousand bird watchers visit annually.
  • A country festival had brought together thousands of people; they pressed about the Emperor, who had mingled with the throng, with ringing shouts of "eljen" [_vive_]; they danced the csardas, waltzed, sang, played music, climbed into the trees, and crowded the court. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5
  • The cowboy's life was far more prosaic than it appears in modern legend, consisting mainly of endless hours on the trail surrounded by thousands of bellowing beasts. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
  • A tourniquet is a common thing enough -- no more than a band with screw fittings, and there was nothing to show that the tourniquet used was any different from a thousand others; and I can see no particular reason why a doctor should commit a murder like this any more than any other man; in which the divisional surgeon agreed with me. The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator
  • Schools are closed and thousands of health workers are fleeing the country. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mr. Ettinger's ideas, which he popularized in a 1963 book, "The Prospect of Immortality," spawned what some refer to as the cryonics movement, though by most accounts it is a small endeavor: a scattering of enterprises around the country with dues-paying customers totaling a few thousand, a few hundred of whom have actually been deep-frozen. NYT > Home Page
  • Botanists will divide the world of plants into hundreds of thousands of different species.
  • It is a brilliant feeling to get up on stage and perform in front of thousands of people.
  • Thousands of sunseekers flocked to Britain's south coast on Sunday to enjoy the last remnants of summer.
  • Today tens of thousands of individuals suffering from chronic pain have benefited from transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, which relieves chronic pain without drugs or serious side effects. Mail Call
  • Then he passed out, dropping the piece of glass, which shattered into a thousand pieces.
  • Most of us find them unattractive, though there are thousands of rodent fanciers who dote on their well-groomed rat-pets.
  • A ban on this horrendous daily cruelty to thousands of animals would impact on the profits of food producers.
  • On Feb. 20 thousands of people rallied at the university campus in the support of the hunger strikers.
  • The scarves twirl round and round thousands of heads. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thus Helen of Troy may have been a bewitching casus belli — and her elopement with Paris may have led to the deaths of thousands — but in fact she was acting with aret é ; she showed herself to be in close attunement with Aphrodite, who demanded an obedience not only to herself but to the imperatives of the heart. The Gods Return
  • Videos worth around forty thousand pounds were seized from a mobile home rental business and a number of vehicles.
  • The huge sum has been set aside for payouts to tens of thousands of patients who suffered blunders in hospital. The Sun
  • According to the official figures, over one thousand people died during the revolution.
  • ETHIOPIA-KENYA: Dam "busters" say Gibe 3 puts thousands at risk photo: PIB of India/Photo Division, Ministry of Information WN.com - Articles related to South Asia businesses and tourism hit by air crisis
  • The car cost a cool thirty thousand.
  • From exploratory drilling through completion, it takes about a thousand truck trips to frack a shale oil well.
  • Thousands of homes across York are to receive a pre-election video from the city's Tory candidate in the May poll.
  • The paintings in the chapel were perhaps a thousand years old.
  • Thousands of self-employed high earners face a crackdown as part of a new government drive against tax avoidance. Times, Sunday Times
  • Turkey is expecting an influx of several thousand refugees over the next few days.
  • Some twenty two thousand have been made homeless, and they still face constant danger.
  • In the regional game of water politics, thousands of years of pharaonic civilization is Egypt's royal flush. Thirsty Egypt Clings Tight To The Nile
  • Thousands of lives and thousands of head of cattle are lost every year due to floods.
  • She accused the government of minimizing the suffering of thousands of people.
  • Some company will have been paid an enormous sum, they will spend thousands more reprinting notepaper and convincing us it's a good idea.
  • The only way to make them economically viable is to intensively rear British farmers in huge barns where thousands of them can be kept in semi-darkness and fed mashed up, infected sheep pellets.
  • Excellent marksmanship is one of the key skills required of the marshals, who work in very compact spaces often tens of thousands of feet in the air.
  • We searched other major valleys sporting outcrops of the same volcanically derived sedimentary rocks, which are exposed across thousands of square kilometers of mountainous terrain.
  • The same youngster will have spent only thirteen thousand hours in school, assuming that he or she is regular in attendance.
  • This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world.
  • The media is investing hundreds of thousands of dollars into microtechnology because they see that as the big breakthrough in making the viewer of a sporting event more excited about what they're watching.
  • What a pity thousands of work-shy layabouts don't think the same way. The Sun
  • This historic church has been sanctified by the prayers and praises of countless thousands who have worshipped within its walls.
  • But only a nation so absurdly rich could have built two hundred battleships, carriers and cruisers in the war years, as well as a thousand smaller ships. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
  • Like the Hawaiian Islands, the tropical Marquesas Islands are extremely isolated and all flora and fauna present are the result of long-distance colonization and in situ evolution for thousands to millions of years. Marquesas tropical moist forests
  • The British beef crisis was damaging to the livelihoods of thousands of people in the industry.
  • Here I should explain why over a hundred thousand miners were striking against the federal courts.

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