Example sentences of "[prep] thousands [prep] " 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 | ‘ Napoleon ’ , the latest instalment of the city-sponsored WONDERS cultural series , has five months ( until 22 September ) to top the previous attendance records set by its predecessors ‘ Rameses the Great ’ , ‘ Catherine the Great ’ and ‘ Splendors of the Ottoman Sultans ’ , each of which brought hundreds of thousands to the region 's cultural capital . |
| 7 | While the masses and nomenklatura flocked in their hundreds of thousands to Glazunov 's exhibitions and he lived lavishly in Moscow , he ably kept going a parallel reputation for dissidence : ‘ [ He ] has been a lifetime opponent of Soviet authority , and his art has always defied the politics and prejudices of his time ’ . |
| 8 | Before that sanguinary campaign , in which the British lost some 450,000 men for an advance nowhere more than 8km/5mls , volunteers had poured in their hundreds of thousands to the recruiting offices . |
| 9 | Each one of those pulses has a carrier frequency of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of cycles per second . |
| 10 | It was feared that landlords and rich peasants had en entered the Party erm but wh which had increased from tens of thousands to two point seven million in eleven years . |
| 11 | If it succeeds , the seven-month old from Lennoxtown , Stirlingshire , could be the first baby of thousands to be saved . |
| 12 | Party workers have been rallying around since last Thursday night 's arson attack which caused tens of thousands worth of damage . |
| 13 | But the sad experiences of thousands over the past three years show that home ownership is not always a path to happiness and contentment . |
| 14 | It had brought them in their hundreds , in their thousands , in their tens of thousands along this track . |
| 15 | Many of the new firms that started were under-capitalised and so went to the wall , but the net number has increased by many hundreds of thousands since 1979 . |
| 16 | Attendances at open air masses were reportedly hundreds of thousands below the Vatican 's expectations , and analysts attributed this in part to the increasing appeal of Protestant evangelism and Afro-Brazilian sects . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Hundreds of thousands of people have appealed for their freedom . |
| 19 | The 1990s began with a dramatic upturn of the fortunes of thousands of prisoners of conscience across eastern and central Europe . |
| 20 | Tens of thousands of Amnesty members and supporters in over 100 countries will be writing letters to governments about these particular cases . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Hundreds of thousands of lives had bought nothing , had proved nothing . |
| 25 | There are tens of thousands of Chinese recipes and shades of flavour . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Tens of thousands of birds , navigating with miraculous precision , arrive each year at their Indian winter homes . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | Radio programmes are transmitted at frequencies of hundreds of thousands of hertz ( kilohertz ) or millions of hertz ( MHz ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |