Example sentences of "to thousands [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personal information about us , once typed on record cards or stuffed into filing cabinets is now kept on computer , information which once even the bank manager or doctor could n't find is now accessible to thousands through a computer keyboard , and everyday this information is routinely sold , to employers investigating potential and current employees , to companies investigating competitors and customers , and to anyone willing to pay in a trade which grows , uncontrolled , daily . |
| 2 | Unions said yesterday that there would be a threat to thousands of jobs if either GEC or Thomson were allowed to gain a foothold at Ferranti because of the overlap in radar interests . |
| 3 | ‘ If you are going to gut the house all in one go , this commits you to thousands of pounds worth of work . |
| 4 | THE lure of 20 per cent off the cost of a portion of fish ‘ n ’ chips at Harry Ramsden 's Yorkshire restaurant has proved irresistable to thousands of small investors . |
| 5 | Last summer Berlin 's streets suddenly became home to thousands of Romanian and Bulgarian refugees , many of them gypsies , who took advantage of easy entry into soon-to-disappear East Germany to gain access to the West . |
| 6 | Compact discs can store data too , and act as a superb archiving medium for large databases , while videodiscs give instant access to thousands of high-quality photographic images on one 14-inch disc . |
| 7 | The question of the decade — ‘ Are you now , or have you ever been , a Communist ? ’ — put to thousands of civil servants , teachers , writers and actors at tribunals and loyalty hearings , was sometimes put in another , more colourful form . |
| 8 | But that 's exactly what happens to thousands of black people . |
| 9 | A couple of years ago this kind of scenario seemed plausible to thousands of people who committed themselves to self-build co-operatives . |
| 10 | Home and haven to thousands of wildfowl . |
| 11 | ‘ With house costs running to thousands of pounds , it 's crazy not to invest in proper care and expect value for money . |
| 12 | They saw — and no doubt often found in their own homes — that this method of buying , if properly used was a godsend to thousands of people , especially to young couples setting up their first home and families moved from old houses or furnished rooms to new estates and towns . |
| 13 | Whatever else Edna Jacques had , she did have the common touch and her verses seemed to bring a breath of warmth and kindly understanding to thousands of prairie wives who laboured — unwept , unhonoured and unsung — in the deepening trenches of the depression . |
| 14 | A good , old-fashioned keep-fit session seems much healthier than Hindu-inspired life-force exercises which were originally designed as an act of worship to thousands of eastern gods . |
| 15 | One of his first designs was ‘ the Simple Working Chair ’ , produced in 1984 , which has subsequently given comfort to thousands of people . |
| 16 | Narrow alleys streak out from a market square , gay with canopy stripes , bookshops , boutiques , steamy little tea-shops , hat-shops , shoe-shops , curio- and card-shops , all pressed together , closing ranks to thousands of cyclists . |
| 17 | But on top of that there are ‘ extras ’ which come to thousands of pounds . |
| 18 | Her shocked and sobbing face epitomised the terror that the bombs had brought to thousands of innocent city centre workers and shoppers . |
| 19 | There were two objections to this : firstly it was a British tune and secondly ( though less important ) it was well known that its full version included a line about crushing rebellious Scots ; and while the English national anthem may have pleased aggressively Anglophile spectators , it gave immense offence to thousands of ordinary Scots who quite understandably punctuated it with boos and whistles . |
| 20 | Over long distances this adds up to thousands of pounds of pressure on your limbs and joints . |
| 21 | Differences of ideology and programme within the right , they insist , were little greater than those within Italian fascism and in any case mattered little to thousands of right-wing militants , supporters and voters . |
| 22 | His enthusiasm for ‘ La Causa ’ , as he called it , spread to thousands of liberals who joined him on boycotts and on several dramatic marches to Sacramento . |
| 23 | Those still with troublesome suspicions should have asked themselves how Pakistan 's fast men could have survived the Cornhill Test series had they been doing something illegal to the ball while on view not only to alert umpires and batting opponents but to thousands of onlookers at the various grounds and before the probing eye of television . |
| 24 | The hostile groups outside Fascist meetings increased from a few protesters to thousands of demonstrators on certain widely reported occasions . |
| 25 | Egypt is host to thousands of Sudanese students and workers , and most of them appeared to be assembled outside the gates of the embassy when I found it one morning in a leafy street not far from the Nile . |
| 26 | Visitors can walk right round the island to see such highlights as the Wick — a cliff which is home to thousands of seabirds and where puffins walk around people 's feet — and the Garland Stone where seals lie on rocks at low tide . |
| 27 | Not only is this the explanation given to thousands of schoolchildren but I have to tell you that it also finds its way — in a more sophisticated form — into the curricula of some institutions of further and higher education . " |
| 28 | It is not for such radical views , strongly held through they were , that she is remembered , but for the understanding support she gave to thousands of working-class women , giving them the confidence to venture into public life . |
| 29 | It was a huge success , stage and film versions were made of it , and it led to thousands of unwilling boys being dressed in black velvet suits . |
| 30 | ‘ Just one writer , observer , philosopher , ’ I added to myself , ‘ one entertainer , pen-pal to thousands of known and unknown friends , philanthropist , seasoned traveller , one aficionado of music , birds , flowers , children , good God and Life . |