Example sentences of "[vb past] [num] of [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centre of Manchester was sealed off as police shepherded thousands of workers away from their city offices . |
| 2 | I T happened hundreds of miles apart in different countries , but the desired aim of striking fear into the minds of law-abiding citizens was achieved in each case . |
| 3 | A GREAT black question mark faced millions of people recently in their newspapers . |
| 4 | The spectacular pieces found during the past fifty years off the east coast have often contained prehistoric dragonflies , trapped thousands of years ago by the oozing liquid as it flowed from the tree trunk . |
| 5 | With mum Carol 's heritage it could never have been any other way — her roots , after all , lay thousands of miles away in Wales , the Land of Song . |
| 6 | As defiant shoppers and workers flooded back into Manchester city centre yesterday , police rejected claims they herded hundreds of workers directly into the path of the second bomb . |
| 7 | That We must remember that 300 years ago British slavers dragged millions of Africans halfway round the world to work on British sugar plantations in the Caribbean ? |
| 8 | I recall that we showered thousands of leaflets all over Czechoslovakia but I doubt if one fell on Prague . |