Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [pron] [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tiny particles of uranium oxide , containing radioactive isotopes of caesium , strontium and plutonium , had been scattered in their millions over the surrounding countryside . |
| 2 | It was his battalion 's heroic defence of their positions on the Basra to Baghdad road , when the rats from Iran had swarmed in their thousands from the marshlands , that had given him his present renown . |
| 3 | Understandably , these fires — which at thirty shillings were cheap to buy and easy to install — were widely sold in their millions in the postwar years . |
| 4 | Tourists are now bused in their thousands to the Sellafield Visitors ' Centre , where all the slick techniques of modern exhibitions are brought to bear on radioactivity . |
| 5 | Glochidia are the larvae ( young stages ) of Swan Mussels , which , when released in their thousands by the adults during breeding , must find a ‘ host ’ fish upon which to settle , or they will die . |