Example sentences of "[prep] thousands of [noun pl] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Prime Minister said in Blackpool recently that the trendy liberals in education ’ have had their say and had their day ’ hundreds of thousands of parents all over the country let out a huge sigh of relief . |
| 2 | THE property slump is leaving Hollywood stars hundreds of thousands of pounds out of pocket . |
| 3 | Thousands of ships bore tens of thousands of troops out to sea . |
| 4 | However , other manufacturers , including the largest , Sir Robert Peel , found an alternative to both men and machinery by relocating their firms where cheap female labour was available to hand paint the cloth or else to print with wooden blocks studded with thousands of pins instead of the engraved blocks cut by the journeymen . |
| 5 | Production can not be ‘ just-in-time ’ when parts are imported from thousands of miles away in Japan . |
| 6 | But the fact that the effects of plate interactions can extend for thousands of kilometres away from plate boundaries , as we have seen in the case of the Tibetan Plateau and central Asia ( see Section 3.4.4.2 ) , shows that this is certainly not the case . |