Example sentences of "thousands [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " 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 | Now this situation is multiplied thousands of times all over Scotland ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There have been some grants , but the team needs thousands of pounds more for its own unit . |
| 6 | Helen said : ‘ There must be thousands of families just like ours . ’ |
| 7 | She could think of hundreds , no , thousands of replies just at this moment and each one had innumerable abusive words peppered throughout . |
| 8 | Thousands of tonnes of rock and ice poured off the mountain travelling almost four miles , cutting a gash two miles wide and landing thousands of feet below on the Tasman Glacier , a popular tourist spot . |
| 9 | ‘ During the spring Cry hopes to gather many thousands of signatures all over real Yorkshire in order to convince the Local Government Commission that Yorkshire people wish to see their county made whole again , ’ he said . |
| 10 | It is quite clear , however , that marked deformation does in fact occur within some continental regions which are thousands of kilometres away from the nearest plate boundary . |
| 11 | But the fact that the effects of plate interactions can extend for thousands of kilometres away from plate boundaries , as we have seen in the case of the Tibetan Plateau and central Asia ( see Section 3.4.4.2 ) , shows that this is certainly not the case . |
| 12 | I recall that we showered thousands of leaflets all over Czechoslovakia but I doubt if one fell on Prague . |
| 13 | The hearings system is claimed to have turned thousands of youngsters away from a life of crime over the last 20 years , but because of the confidential nature of the work done by reporters and panel members , much of the evidence is anecdotal . |
| 14 | Well , four days on with thousands of people still on the site at Castle Morton Common , there 's growing anger locally that nobody seems to have the power to do anything about the travellers.Villagers say they 're under siege . |
| 15 | Tolstoy litters them , you know , they 've got thousands of people all with different names , so do n't buy something that , you know , you do n't really want to read . |
| 16 | The spectacular pieces found during the past fifty years off the east coast have often contained prehistoric dragonflies , trapped thousands of years ago by the oozing liquid as it flowed from the tree trunk . |
| 17 | The East Gate had been built thousands of years before at a place where a long ridge ran down into the valley causing it to narrow to a hundred yards or less . |
| 18 | The centre of Manchester was sealed off as police shepherded thousands of workers away from their city offices . |
| 19 | What saves computing from being as big a social embarrassment as accountancy , tax inspecting and supporting Manchester United is the fact that it 's possible to make contact with other Leeds fans at home and abroad by means of the vast electronic networks which interconnect thousands of computers right round the world . |
| 20 | But it 's still worth thousands of quid so to them that is there 're thousands erm er there 's quite a lot of things they built up . |
| 21 | Is it strange going thousands of miles away to Australia and finding out that you 're as known there as you are on this island ? |
| 22 | Even though Durie and Hobbs were thousands of miles away at the time of Britain 's demise at the hands of the Asians in Melbourne last December , the pair nevertheless felt the pain their colleagues were suffering . |
| 23 | Thousands of miles away at Seashore Trolley Museum in Maine U.S.A. , is 144 the first Standard to be preserved . |
| 24 | As to ‘ our bridge ’ ( which is never mentioned again ) , the reader can if he likes reflect that Kirillov is an odd fish and will no doubt prove himself persona non grata in ‘ our town ’ , or that the local bureaucrats are an officious and/or corrupt lot , or that the central authority thousands of miles away in Petersburg enjoys throwing its weight about . |
| 25 | Production can not be ‘ just-in-time ’ when parts are imported from thousands of miles away in Japan . |
| 26 | With mum Carol 's heritage it could never have been any other way — her roots , after all , lay thousands of miles away in Wales , the Land of Song . |
| 27 | And again this proves to be the case : our example is found in Arctic Canada , in the high Arctic island of Spitsbergen , thousands of miles away in what is now the desert country of Nevada and Utah in the United States , in western Ireland , in Russia , and in northwestern Australia . |
| 28 | Everything he draws , she sees as it unfolds thousands of miles away in Hampstead . |
| 29 | The cover of this report illustrates the chain of economic linkages which begins with distilleries in the Highlands and Islands , and ends many thousands of miles away in export markets around the globe . |
| 30 | The turning point came when , thousands of miles away from the series ’ Melbourne home , the then controller of the BBC 's main channel ripped up his schedules in a bid to beat plunging ratings . |