Example sentences of "thousands [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were lucky and had survived , unlike so many others we had known and thousands of others all over the world . |
| 2 | ‘ I have done it thousands of times before and will do it thousands of times again . ’ |
| 3 | Now this situation is multiplied thousands of times all over Scotland ! |
| 4 | Radium is tens of times more hazardous than plutonium and thousands of times more hazardous than tritium . |
| 5 | It is twenty times faster , has a larger memory , is thousands of times more reliable , consumes the power of a light bulb rather than that of a locomotive , occupies 1/30,000 the volume and costs 1/10,000 as much . |
| 6 | I 'm sure you 've heard it thousands of times before but I am fed up with the way I look . |
| 7 | But American Callan says : ‘ Thousands of enthusiasts worldwide have experienced incredible results . ’ |
| 8 | Conditions for the tens of thousands of refugees there have been described in harrowing terms by UN officials who have visited the town . |
| 9 | However , other manufacturers , including the largest , Sir Robert Peel , found an alternative to both men and machinery by relocating their firms where cheap female labour was available to hand paint the cloth or else to print with wooden blocks studded with thousands of pins instead of the engraved blocks cut by the journeymen . |
| 10 | When the Prime Minister said in Blackpool recently that the trendy liberals in education ’ have had their say and had their day ’ hundreds of thousands of parents all over the country let out a huge sigh of relief . |
| 11 | Walking back through the jungle I thankfully did n't come across any trap-door spiders but as dusk fell I was entranced by a cluster of trees which were suddenly lit up like Christmas trees by the thousands of glow-worms out for a night of passion . |
| 12 | MIRROR readers who lost thousands of pounds when a holiday company went bust may get some money back . |
| 13 | The RSPCA will have to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds locally to build the kennels . |
| 14 | On the other hand , for a poor candidate or , more important , a party lacking the hundreds of thousands of pounds now needed , the prospect can be deterrent . |
| 15 | It saves you from becoming under-insured as a result of inflation , with the risk of having to find thousands of pounds out of your own pocket in the event of a serious claim . |
| 16 | THE property slump is leaving Hollywood stars hundreds of thousands of pounds out of pocket . |
| 17 | There have been some grants , but the team needs thousands of pounds more for its own unit . |
| 18 | A TOUR operator is battling to get thousands of pounds back after rock superstar Prince cancelled a concert . |
| 19 | We aim to provide and extend a welfare service and raise many thousands of pounds annually to sponsor medical research . |
| 20 | Surely the Secretary of State agrees that it is economic madness to switch electricity generation from coal to gas , close scores of collieries and throw thousands of miners on to the dole ? |
| 21 | How can the right hon. Gentleman stand at the Dispatch Box and seek to justify the untrammelled entry of coal imports into Britain , which is flinging thousands of miners out of work and at the same time digging a hole for the economic morass in our balance of payments ? |
| 22 | Helen said : ‘ There must be thousands of families just like ours . ’ |
| 23 | They lie around the edges of the Galaxy , and all are thousands of light-years away , so that they appear faint . |
| 24 | For the Germans , the thought that the thousands of prisoners-of-war now free behind their lines might take up arms was a continuing nightmare . |
| 25 | The prouder and more articulate seaman had seen his pay and status in continuous decline from 1815 when , at the , end of the Napoleonic wars , " the government , without the least consideration for those who had battled on the ocean in defence of their king and country , disbanded the Fleets and cast adrift some thousands of Seamen suddenly to find employment in the merchant service " . |
| 26 | Tens of thousands of residents simply jumped in their cars , clogging the freeways . |
| 27 | She could think of hundreds , no , thousands of replies just at this moment and each one had innumerable abusive words peppered throughout . |
| 28 | The US government has been told by congressional investigators that it is responsible for cleaning up possibly hundreds of thousands of publicly-owned environmentally hazardous sites , at a cost of billions of dollars . |
| 29 | A close wet-shave is not really possible , say if he 's thousands of feet up in the air and he wants to stay sweet with fellow plane passengers . |
| 30 | A close wet-shave is not really possible , say if he 's thousands of feet up in the air and he wants to stay sweet with fellow plane passengers . |