Example sentences of "[noun sg] with thousands of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the centre of the wicker industry , and on one side of the central square is a large warehouse with thousands of items made from wicker — baskets , trays , chairs and more unusually , elephants , lions and giraffes . |
| 2 | Embroidery remains largely a cottage industry with thousands of girls and women employed as outworkers . |
| 3 | I waited by the eighteenth green with thousands of spectators to see the denouement , and my money was mentally on the dashing Swede . |
| 4 | Megadeth are a band with thousands of followers , some of them just starting out on the guitar . |
| 5 | Fifty years ago it was n't a disgrace to be poor — it was a shared misfortune with thousands of others . |
| 6 | In the past , listeners have produced a tremendous response with thousands of eggs finding their way to hospitals and homes around the county . |
| 7 | It 's a familiar quandary : buy an affordable production line bass and live with the fact that you share your new baby with thousands of others , or take the handmade option , pay through the nose and bask in the reflected glory of your instrument 's exclusivity . |
| 8 | Barbel fishing in the early days , and I am talking to more than a hundred years ago , was very popular amongst the gentry , who used to employ a man to bait a swim with thousands of lobworms over a period of days , sometimes weeks . |
| 9 | And visitors will be treated to a spectacular show with thousands of pounds worth of fireworks on display . |
| 10 | Virtual PreVUE can emulate a system with thousands of users , PreVUE-X tests for bugs in X-Windows applications . |