Example sentences of "thousands of [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all their thousands of lines of protests , however , no one has flat out denied USL 's intellectual property rights . |
| 2 | We have produced thousands of pages of reports . |
| 3 | Thousands of pounds of tax-payers money would n't have been wasted just to have them settle a week before trial . |
| 4 | Hector Mackenzie , who chairs the TUC 's health services committee , said : ‘ Hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers ’ money have been spent on training many of these people . |
| 5 | In the first day of the war , the Americans and their allies had flown hundreds of sorties against Iraq , dropped thousands of pounds of bombs and met virtually no resistance . |
| 6 | Police and charity commissioners investigating the disappearance of thousands of pounds of funds have been meeting the trustee who raised the alarm . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Thousands of boxes of parts arrive at the assembly line every week to be emptied and then simply discarded in a corner because Dagenham is not geared to what the modern motor industry calls ‘ just-in-time ’ delivery . |
| 9 | ‘ Sister , remember how many thousands of talents of sins your Master hath forgiven you : forgive ye therefore your fellow-servants one talent ; … |
| 10 | As well as housing thousands of species of algae , fish and molluscs , the sea grass generates oxygen and has been dubbed the " lungs of the sea " . |
| 11 | We look at all the thousands of species of birds , and observe that the vast majority of them do n't use echolocation . |
| 12 | Many thousands of species of plants and animals will become extinct . |
| 13 | Thousands of tonnes of nutrients and uncontrolled quantities of toxic chemicals used to treat fish disease are pumped into lochs each year . |
| 14 | The fires produced 20,000 to 40,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide as well as many thousands of tonnes of oxides of nitrogen . |
| 15 | Thousands of feet of shales and mudstones represent one small part ( and I suspect one small part of that small part ) of the jurassic . |
| 16 | Since books of random numbers contain thousands of sets of figures and one can work up , down , or across , since all is random , there is no problem of running short of numbers . |
| 17 | Some 1600 installations are notifiable , along with thousands of kilometres of pipelines ( mostly high-pressure natural gas transmission lines ) . |
| 18 | About 350 million people live in the Yangtze valley , and its thousands of kilometres of waterways are essential to commerce , industry , and fishing . |
| 19 | Thousands of tons of explosives were dumped in a deep trench between the Isle of Man and the Kintyre peninsula after the war . |
| 20 | But I mean to be fair we used to we , warehouse thousands of tons of potatoes in Leicestershire , you see what I mean ? |
| 21 | Greenpeace has accused the British Ministry of Defence of breaching international agreements by dumping thousands of tons of munitions ( bombs , shells and hand grenades ) at a site in the Atlantic Ocean 400 miles off the southwest coast of England . |
| 22 | FOR THE LAST three weeks , officials of the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) have been trying to sell thousands of tons of onions . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Thousands of years of commanders , thousands of years of tradition … |
| 25 | Thousands of words of lies and not one word of apology from any of them . |
| 26 | Hundreds of accidents to children and thousands of deaths of animals are caused every year by thoughtlessly discarded waste . |
| 27 | Once there were thousands of varieties of apples just as there were multiple varieties of most plant foods . |
| 28 | It contains tens of thousands of blazons of arms held ( or recorded as held ) by English families , listed alphabetically by name . |
| 29 | At Three Bridges Farm , on the A38 south-east of the village , R.J. Sheppy & Son are independent cider-makers in the traditional home of cider , the flat lands of Somerset where thousands of acres of orchards produce apples with unfamiliar names to the greengrocer and the supermarket , like Slack-ma-Girdle and Bloody Butcher . |
| 30 | Is it not time that they devised a positive policy , to ensure that the many thousands of miles of hedgerows that were grubbed up or allowed to go to waste over the years are replaced ? |