Example sentences of "thousands of [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of others died each year without telling relatives of their savings , according to some of Britain 's leading financial institutions and businesses . |
| 2 | They left Oxford this morning to join thousands of others affected by the Maxwell scandal to demand government action . |
| 3 | By the end of June as many as 1,000 people had died in the fighting and thousands of others had been made homeless . |
| 4 | I know that thousands of others have gained their freedom thanks to you . |
| 5 | If you take pain killers regularly you like thousands of others have probably been worried after hearing what 's happening to Michael Jackson . |
| 6 | Thousands of others wed clutching only a photograph of their partner . |
| 7 | Dai Qing 's whereabouts , like thousands of others arrested since June , are not known . |
| 8 | In May the Colorado delegates in the Assembly had defeated opposition moves to allow hundreds of thousands of Paraguayans living abroad the right to vote . |
| 9 | Among humans a mutation could take thousands of generations to become apparent . |
| 10 | There are plenty of victims involved : thousands of brutes get routed out every week . |
| 11 | Tens of thousands of Armenians died of thirst and starvation after being forced into the north Syrian desert on the long march south . |
| 12 | Thousands of enthusiasts have re-staged an English civil war battle to commemorate its three hundred and fiftieth anniversary . |
| 13 | Alongside the base , on every possibly vantage point the A15 could offer , thousands of enthusiasts paid homage . |
| 14 | The main problem is the dead hand of local authorities , which keep tens of thousands of properties empty . |
| 15 | A group of low cost server computers running the Oracle7 co-operative-server database can easily support thousands of users running thousands of transactions per second , the company claims , in theory making the system infinitely scalable and addressing the market for emerging very large databases that contain image , text , voice and other multimedia data . |
| 16 | The company operates its own radio network in the UK with a system that allows thousands of users to operate on a single UHF or VHF channel . |
| 17 | Thousands of users find our service of great benefit and come back to us year after year . |
| 18 | Hundreds of thousands of Somalis have fled from their homes , some to refugee camps in Ethiopia , others to revert to their ancestral nomadic existence in Somalia 's empty semi-deserts . |
| 19 | If a welfare rights organisation or some other body hands out thousands of forms saying , ’ Sign at the bottom and send to your local social security office , ’ that makes it more difficult for people with problems and claims to have their needs settled . |
| 20 | Amid a widespread mood of national reconciliation , sappers of the two armies collaborated throughout the month to neutralize some of the thousands of landmines concealed in wide areas of the country , and began recovering weapons caches and disarming civilians . |
| 21 | Twenty-three tonnes of clothes and blankets gathered by Oxfam , on their way to thousands of refugees facing another winter in the camps . |
| 22 | As thousands of refugees prepare for winter , our reporter Kim Barnes has flown in with a plane-load of desperately-needed warm clothing , to see at first hand the work being done to help . |
| 23 | As Hitler marched into European countries American Express and Thomas Cooks helped thousands of refugees to escape . |
| 24 | The European Community has approved emergency food aid for the tens of thousands of refugees arriving in Jordan from Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 25 | Now , with the opening of Eastern Europe , united Germany has become the preferred destination for thousands of refugees fleeing hardship at home . |
| 26 | As fighting continued , thousands of refugees fled to Zagreb to escape from Serbian fighters who were seizing territory and advancing amid the supportive bombardment of the army . |
| 27 | It was agreed that the Georgian and Russian governments , together with the government of the North Ossetian autonomous republic ( inside the Russian Federation ) , would work for the resettlement of the tens of thousands of refugees displaced from South Ossetia by the conflict , and for the " restoration of the lawful local government bodies " . |
| 28 | They 're a mile from the nearest road and accessible only by foot , unless of course you 're one of the thousands of seabirds wheeling and jostling for a place on the rocky ledges . |
| 29 | Which is more than can be said for the thousands of turkeys destined for the Christmas dinner table . |
| 30 | AN army of glaziers is at work in the City , battling to repair the thousands of windows shattered by last Friday 's IRA bomb . |