Example sentences of "[prep] thousands of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The kitemakers art has been stretched to its limits , after thousands of years of design modification . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | During its lifetime , both in peacetime and war ( e.g. WW II , Korea , the Falklands and latterly the Gulf ) the railway has carried hundreds of thousands of tons of stores and equipments internally for the RAOC for storage and issue , also to the REME at 34 Base Workshop for repair . |
| 5 | It 's cost nearly six million pounds to build , but will turn hundreds of thousands of tons of rubbish into a small fortune . |
| 6 | There are just 47 registered dockers at Sharpness , and the port handles hundreds of thousands of tons of cargo each year . |
| 7 | The 1990s began with a dramatic upturn of the fortunes of thousands of prisoners of conscience across eastern and central Europe . |
| 8 | In the 1970s , Mr Chihana spent seven years in prison as one of thousands of prisoners of conscience who were picked up by the regime but were never charged . |
| 9 | Many hundreds of thousands of members of the public have had their cars stolen , or their cars broken into and their possessions taken . |
| 10 | Within a week the big machines had moved in , and that corner of his parish could have been one of thousands of others in modern England — any place , anywhere . |
| 11 | The arrest of Advani and of hundreds of thousands of others in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh did little to halt the movement of Hindus to Ayodhya and on Oct. 30 thousands of militants gathered at the disputed site . |
| 12 | The mass disfranchisement of thousands of citizens in local government , the disgraceful manipulation of constituency boundaries , the enforced political tests for government jobs and legislation , such as the Flags and Emblems Act , were some of the shackles on individual freedom which would never be tolerated in England . |
| 13 | If this structure seems fairly simple , it must be remembered that each of these materials is made on a massive scale — often hundreds of thousands of tonnes per year . |
| 14 | The thought of thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste being buried under their favourite stretch of countryside filled local residents with horror . |
| 15 | In the EEC , food surpluses are commonplace , leading to disposal of thousands of tonnes of food every year . |
| 16 | Tens of tonnes of mercury are dumped in batteries each year and worldwide tens of thousands of tonnes of cadmium are used in battery manufacture — 50 per cent of total cadmium usage . |
| 17 | He said that petro-chemical plants with little or no pollution controls were releasing hundreds of thousands of tonnes of toxic waste into the atmosphere every year . |
| 18 | There are also fears about the build up of methane gas at the site , which is yards away from a railway bank made of thousands of tonnes of coal waste . |
| 19 | The CWIS ‘ blue source ’ , for example , makes it possible to search the hundreds of thousands of titles in the Library , to place reservations and even to check one 's own borrowing record . |
| 20 | IBM Corp and Blockbuster Entertainment Corp were yesterday due to launch their joint venture to market systems for duplicating audio compact disk recordings in retail stores : the idea is that record companies could eliminate the need to press hundreds of thousands of copies of major recordings — instead the store would tap into central databases at each record company to collect the tracks requested and record them onto a blank disk ; although no pilot systems have yet been launched , IBM said the system also could be used to make and sell computer software and video games on demand ; the IBM-Blockbuster system is expected to be designed to distribute albums in original form , rather than enabling customers to mix and match their choice of tracks , and negotiations are reportedly already under way with several record companies ; a typical CD would take about six minutes to make , complete with the glossy packaging buyers expect . |
| 21 | In spite of Hutchinson 's claims that he had 20,000 members in the Mansfield district , and large numbers of followers in Lancashire and other industrial areas , and that he had printed hundreds of thousands of copies of the National Worker , there was no evidence that he had any members in his organization . |
| 22 | The evacuation meant the Daily Telegraph newspaper , which is based in Canary Tower , was forced to print hundreds of thousands of copies with a blank front page save for a three-paragraph statement . |
| 23 | It sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Britain and the USA . |
| 24 | For example , it is thought that in Zimbabwe there are probably tens of thousands of sites of rock art , but only a tiny fraction have ever been recorded ; and in Israel recent surveys have revealed thousands of previously unknown sites . |
| 25 | Bankrolled by the city government and powered by a marketing blitz in the bible belt , these annual blockbusters in the downtown convention centre have attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors from throughout the region and beyond , outpacing concurrent exhibitions at the major US museums . |
| 26 | Tens of thousands of visitors from school children to the Prime Minister attended the six-day environment , wildlife and conservation exhibition . |
| 27 | Tens of thousands of Albanians in at least 12 Kosovar towns were involved in daily clashes with riot police which by the end of the month reportedly had left at least 27 people dead . |
| 28 | SECURITY forces launched a fresh assault on tens of thousands of demonstrators in the centre of Bucharest late last night at the end of a day in which violent repression was reported to have cost at least 20 lives in the Romanian capital . |
| 29 | On May 29 tens of thousands of demonstrators in Tirana 's Skanderbeg Square , calling for the overthrow of the government and expressing support for the hunger strikers , attacked police with rocks , bottles and fire-bombs . |
| 30 | Macedonian vehicles were being turned back at the Greek border and hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Salonika ( Greek Macedonia ) protested on Feb. 14 at the republic 's use of the name Macedonia . |