Example sentences of "[prep] thousands of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the grimmer side , the national health service , which only weeks ago was apparently closing down vital wards , said this week that it was fully prepared to look after thousands of war casualties . |
| 2 | You could do worse than to sign up with Armed Response , which looks after thousands of homes in middle-class Johannesburg North , a rich hunting-ground that Gary Whittaker , a director of Armed Response , calls ‘ the captured area ’ . |
| 3 | Together with his court architect , Albert Speer , the Führer had devised ‘ ruin-theory ’ which demanded that the great Nazi buildings should be designed to impress the observer even as ruins after thousands of years . |
| 4 | Ian Wyllie , who studied cuckoos extensively in Cambridgeshire reed-beds , saw it just three times over a period of six years after thousands of hours of observation . |
| 5 | The kitemakers art has been stretched to its limits , after thousands of years of design modification . |
| 6 | In practical terms this means that although letter-writing to governments regarding prisoners continues to be the cornerstone of the campaign work other methods have been introduced to enhance the effectiveness of the hundreds of thousands of letters that Amnesty members write each year . |
| 7 | Hundreds of thousands of people have appealed for their freedom . |
| 8 | The 1990s began with a dramatic upturn of the fortunes of thousands of prisoners of conscience across eastern and central Europe . |
| 9 | Tens of thousands of Amnesty members and supporters in over 100 countries will be writing letters to governments about these particular cases . |
| 10 | When Amnesty International visited Yemen in October 1990 to prepare for government talks , they heard reports of thousands of Yemenis being expelled from Saudi Arabia , some after being tortured . |
| 11 | No effort has been made to investigate the tens of thousands of murders and ‘ disappearances ’ that have occurred over the past three years : in February , Sri Lankan human rights activists estimated that 40,000 people had ‘ disappeared ’ since 1987 . |
| 12 | With hundreds of thousands of people displaced from their homes by the conflict , the economy of these areas has been devastated and government forces are laying siege to many parts of the north , often involving inaccurate and indiscriminate bombardments of civilian population centres . |
| 13 | Hundreds of thousands of lives had bought nothing , had proved nothing . |
| 14 | There are tens of thousands of Chinese recipes and shades of flavour . |
| 15 | That it is results from the chaotic competition and lack of liaison , hundreds of thousands of would-be passengers turning to the railway with its reliable timetable for want of proper information about road services . |
| 16 | Tens of thousands of birds , navigating with miraculous precision , arrive each year at their Indian winter homes . |
| 17 | Hundreds of thousands of people poured into the streets to watch the firework display - a fact which , Mr Deng boasted , proves that ‘ China 's social order has returned to normal ’ . |
| 18 | Radio programmes are transmitted at frequencies of hundreds of thousands of hertz ( kilohertz ) or millions of hertz ( MHz ) . |
| 19 | The Department of Trade and Industry has ruled out an official Companies Act investigation of the flotation , in which the ashes of up to half a million share certificates were discovered in a skip in South London and tens of thousands of other documents were botched . |
| 20 | On 23 May , tens of thousands of school students rallied at Xinhua , subscribing 72,000 names to a petition and collecting about £35,000 . |
| 21 | He also objected to having to tone down a description of the 1937 Rape of Nanking , when Japanese troops went on the rampage , killing tens of thousands of Chinese civilians and prisoners . |
| 22 | But despite all the authorities ' attempts to pretend that all goes well , the birthday celebrations are moving forward in the shadow of a public mood of national crisis , dramatised by the tens of thousands of East Germans struggling to flee to the West in recent weeks . |
| 23 | For all their cruel , corrupt and reckless vices , the Maharajahs were worshipped as gods by tens of thousands of their subjects . |
| 24 | LORD ALDINGTON told the High Court yesterday he was not surprised that tens of thousands of Yugoslavs , many of whom had fought on the German side , feared repatriation at the end of the war . |
| 25 | But though the intention will be to curb the power of union leaders wielding hundreds of thousands of block votes , Mr Whitty emphasised that Labour would remain a trade union-based party . |
| 26 | Tens of thousands of traditional mud-built cob buildings are still in use throughout Devon and Cornwall . |
| 27 | Since 1965 , when the Communist party of Indonesia was blamed for an attempted coup and banned , and hundreds of thousands of communists were killed or sent to prison , the legal instrument most often used to curb political offences has been the Anti-Subversion Law . |
| 28 | Hundreds of thousands of Somalis have fled from their homes , some to refugee camps in Ethiopia , others to revert to their ancestral nomadic existence in Somalia 's empty semi-deserts . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Apart from a page 9 reference to hooligans in Neues Deutschland , only the youth paper , Junge Welt , referred to the unprecedented protests over the weekend , which saw tens of thousands of young East Germans on the streets , and an estimated 1,000 still in jail in East Berlin alone . |