Example sentences of "thousands of [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have embezzled thousands of pounds over the years . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Maybe the weight itself of thousands of boys over the last couple of decades had led to some sort of subsidence . |
| 4 | Sales representative organized the promotion and personally demonstrated the production of chapattis to thousands of visitors over a five-day period . |
| 5 | Yesterday Mr Mandela began a three-day tour of the Natal Midlands , cockpit of the virtual civil war between the ANC and Inkatha which has claimed thousands of lives over the last three years . |
| 6 | Here was the domain which glued the Imperium together since ships could slip through it to distant stars within days — or months at most — instead of taking impossible thousands of years over such voyages . |
| 7 | Accordingly , leaders of the Jewish community were packed off to Vienna to receive first-hand information on organising mass emigration , though how anyone could think of forcing thousands of destitutes over the border — . |
| 8 | The fast-swimming Dall 's porpoise has been particularly hard hit in the North Pacific and hundreds of thousands of animals over the last 20 years have been entangled in the giant drift-nets of the salmon , squid , and tuna fisheries . |
| 9 | His leader 's menace and awe was able to transmit itself thousands of miles over a telephone line , such was his presence . |
| 10 | There is no reliable estimate of abundance for the franciscana , although the incidental gill-net kill of tens of thousands of dolphins over the last 30 years has undoubtedly significantly reduced the total population . |
| 11 | IN A FURTHER sign of recession in the US car industry , General Motors is considering cutbacks in its management and salaried staff which could mean thousands of redundancies over the next five years . |