Example sentences of "thousands of [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An investigation is underway into a fire which caused thousands of pounds of damage to a plastics factory . |
| 2 | Prompt action by firemen prevented thousands of pounds of damage to computers in the part of the office used by staff of The Northern Junior Sports magazine . |
| 3 | Later , frontman Kurt Cobain caused thousands of pounds of damage by smashing his guitar , wrecking an amplifier and falling on a drum kit . |
| 4 | Over long distances this adds up to thousands of pounds of pressure on your limbs and joints . |
| 5 | The boy , who can not be named for legal reasons , stole thousands of pounds of property from cars , garages , school changing rooms and sheds in the company of two other youths , both aged 14 . |
| 6 | Kevin Earnshaw , of the Flanders Scottish Alliance , a war charity which took more than £1 million of aid to Romania three years ago and has since taken hundreds of thousands of pounds of supplies to the former Yugoslavia , said he agreed to the request but he needs help to keep his word . |
| 7 | The 1990s began with a dramatic upturn of the fortunes of thousands of prisoners of conscience across eastern and central Europe . |
| 8 | There are thousands of metres of film of eruptions and hectares of accounts in newspapers and books , almost all of it devoted to the ‘ human interest ’ situations that arise whenever natural events interrupt the pattern of human life . |
| 9 | Can he further explain to the House how the Ministry of Defence justifies importing thousands of tonnes of beef from South America to feed our forces when we have almost 1 million tonnes in intervention in Europe ? |
| 10 | The fires produced 20,000 to 40,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide as well as many thousands of tonnes of oxides of nitrogen . |
| 11 | What I think of as a few steps along the beach in the Isle of Wight suffices to pass the Middle Oligocene , but I find this amounts to untold thousands of feet of sediment in New Guinea . |
| 12 | To equip this fish for its incredible journey across thousands of kilometres of ocean to its spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea , the eel 's eyes grow larger and their red pigments are replaced by a second type of blue pigments . |
| 13 | Thousands of hours of work by Cheltenhams parks and gardens department have gone into creating the displays . |
| 14 | The art of Benin first became known to the West in 1897 when a British military expedition confiscated thousands of works of art from the royal palace and exiled the king , Ovonrramwen . |
| 15 | They had had a good run for their money and there were still thousands of reels of tape to be analysed and matched against other intelligence sources . |
| 16 | But I mean to be fair we used to we , warehouse thousands of tons of potatoes in Leicestershire , you see what I mean ? |
| 17 | It 's cost nearly six million pounds to build , but will turn hundreds of thousands of tons of rubbish into a small fortune . |
| 18 | The Silver Helm Knights are the culmination of thousands of years of experience in mounted combat . |
| 19 | ‘ The whole song is about the thousands of years of war in that particular part of the world : North Africa , Arabia , The Orient and Middle East . |
| 20 | These represent some of the thousands of fragments of wood from Flag Fen , England . |
| 21 | Speakers at the rally warned that thousands of acres of land on the shore of Lough Neagh could become a lake if the mining went ahead , leading to the forced relocation of hundreds of families . |
| 22 | Ironstone was a major extractive industry which , from the late nineteenth century onwards , engulfed many thousands of acres of land in Northamptonshire and north Lincolnshire . |
| 23 | These Attachment Courts were also responsible for preventing illegal enclosures , and for giving landowners leave to cut timber in their own woods : thousands of acres of woodland in Essex were cleared during the eighteenth century by their leave , and with the licence of the Chief Justice of the Forest . |
| 24 | The colonisation of new land , and its demarcation into private estates , created thousands of miles of boundaries for the first time . |
| 25 | Thousands of gallons of water per minute flow from underground streams which pour from the tranquil pool to form the moat and run into the gutters of Wells and into the many little streams around , irrigating the fields with their dancing life and wonderful presence . |
| 26 | Even though there was a serious risk that its reaction with the hot burning metal would cause a hydrogen explosion , thousands of gallons of water at the highest pressure possible were pumped through the channels which held the burning fuel . |
| 27 | It extracts thousands of gallons of water from the river . |
| 28 | There are still thousands of pieces of furniture in the second hand market containing the old-style foam . |
| 29 | WE get thousands of pieces of paperwork from all over the world at the Matchroom : fan mail , bills and God knows what else . |