Example sentences of "thousands of [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some exported birds are endangered and as such are worth thousands of pounds to collectors . |
| 2 | Firemen believe the dog chewed a box of matches and sparked the blaze , which caused damage running into thousands of pounds to Ray Hobley 's council flat in West Bromwich , West Midlands . |
| 3 | Herr Nordern had been about to say ‘ the bunker , ’ the stretch of waste land behind Friedrichstrasse where , in his concrete tomb , as the Russians had battered their way into the city in 1945 , Hitler had lived his final appalling fantasy ; commanding armies which did not exist , so condemning thousands , hundreds of thousands of civilians to death in those final lunatic days . |
| 4 | Public participation was vital in its own right , of course , as the only way to bring those thousands of signatures to life . |
| 5 | In concluding his discussion of corporate crime , Box raises the question of whether it can be justified to send thousands of people to prison each year because they are too poor to pay fines ( in 1981 , 20,000 males were imprisoned for defaulting on fine payments ) when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crime . |
| 6 | These courts continued to function until 1943 and sentenced thousands of Spaniards to execution or imprisonment . |
| 7 | They 're being sent to a village house which has become the centre of a sophisticated operation ferrying out thousands of parcels to Dubrovnik.Mike Rowbottom reports . |
| 8 | BRITAIN is preparing to send thousands of troops to Bosnia after reaching a deal with the US and France last night . |
| 9 | THE United States military is sending thousands of troops to Kismayu after reports that a warlord , Omar Jess , may have launched a push to recapture the southern Somali port . |