Example sentences of "[prep] thousands of [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the next few weeks they 're releasing ten of thousands of tiny elvers in Thames tributaries like the River Windrush in Oxfordshire . |
| 2 | What is more , as the tourist industry is very labour intensive , the £20,000 million additional gross revenue would create hundreds of thousands of new jobs in the new hotels and other facilities required . |
| 3 | Typical of thousands of boring husbands in the thirties . |
| 4 | This vast product-line combined with an ability to deliver quickly from stock has led to the supplying of thousands of satisfied professionals in research institutes , laboratories and chemical process industries worldwide . |
| 5 | In 1360 Rudolf IV organised a mass settlement of thousands of German colonists in the Gottschee ( Kočevje ) area of Lower Carniola . |
| 6 | Richard Baxter was further saddened by the loss of thousands of precious books in the fire , which he believed was a great loss to ‘ piety and learning ’ . |
| 7 | But Somalia 's refugees may have suffered a less appalling fate than the hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian refugees in Somalia , who have existed in desolate camps for nearly 10 years . |
| 8 | According to the Zaïre Human Rights League 30 people were killed and over 100 injured when troops opened fire on thousands of peaceful protesters in Kinshasa on Feb. 16 . |
| 9 | We did not reckon on greedy Labour authorities utilising the change to conceal vast increases in public expenditure that they forced on to thousands of unsuspecting electors in our communities , to try to persuade them to change their allegiance from the Conservative party to Labour . |
| 10 | ‘ And we are talking about a huge skill base within Scotland , a major training resource which is vitally important to Scotland and to thousands of Scottish students in everything from engineering to media graphics . |
| 11 | During the last 23 years I have looked at thousands of so-called accidents in many countries . |
| 12 | More modest , but important , increases in the productivity of another root crop , cassava , have also been achieved by thousands of small farmers in western Nigeria . |