Example sentences of "thousands of [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authors have obviously taken note of the thousands of users of the first release to bring you this wonderful educational program . |
| 2 | For all their thousands of lines of protests , however , no one has flat out denied USL 's intellectual property rights . |
| 3 | In 1985 Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy analyst , was paid $30,000 by Mossad in return for handing over thousands of pages of top-secret material . |
| 4 | We have produced thousands of pages of reports . |
| 5 | Prestel was launched in 1979 to provide users with instant access to thousands of pages of information and the ability to communicate with other Prestel users and with some of those who provided information for the system . |
| 6 | The fact is of course that what we 're seeing here is a tiny minority of people , and I could bring thousands of people here tonight who 've been in the services , thousands of parents of those people who 've been in the services , who would give you a very very different story . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Tens of thousands of pounds of damage were caused in the trimming shop on Monday , 25 October and Tuesday morning , 26 October . |
| 9 | Over long distances this adds up to thousands of pounds of pressure on your limbs and joints . |
| 10 | Later , frontman Kurt Cobain caused thousands of pounds of damage by smashing his guitar , wrecking an amplifier and falling on a drum kit . |
| 11 | The boy , who can not be named for legal reasons , stole thousands of pounds of property from cars , garages , school changing rooms and sheds in the company of two other youths , both aged 14 . |
| 12 | This series of events wasted thousands of pounds of public funds in terms of opportunity costs ; caused embarrassment to us ; has long delayed the publication of our work ; has reduced the originality of the work as others have published papers on related topics in the intervening period ; and has swept away our confidence in the editorial and peer review process . |
| 13 | He had advanced thousands of pounds of his own money to keep the parliamentary forces of Yorkshire going . |
| 14 | A woman whose home was wrecked by vandals in an attack which caused thousands of pounds of damage says she 's able to forgive them . |
| 15 | It 's believed tens of thousands of pounds of public money has been misused . |
| 16 | Until there is a change in the law , charity shops will continue to lose thousands of pounds of income a week because they ca n't sell most of the toys donated to them . |
| 17 | Thousands of pounds of tax-payers money would n't have been wasted just to have them settle a week before trial . |
| 18 | Thousands of pounds of damage was caused , and fire crews were faced with the added danger of having to remove gas welding cylinders which were overheating . |
| 19 | An investigation is underway into a fire which caused thousands of pounds of damage to a plastics factory . |
| 20 | A woman wanted for questioning about the disappearance of thousands of pounds of charity money says she can prove her innocence . |
| 21 | The woman , from Worcester , is wanted for questioning in this country following the disappearance of thousands of pounds of charity cash . |
| 22 | Police and charity commissioners investigating the disappearance of thousands of pounds of funds have been meeting the trustee who raised the alarm . |
| 23 | Prompt action by firemen prevented thousands of pounds of damage to computers in the part of the office used by staff of The Northern Junior Sports magazine . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The 1990s began with a dramatic upturn of the fortunes of thousands of prisoners of conscience across eastern and central Europe . |
| 27 | Our task today is to increase the international pressure on behalf of the thousands of prisoners of conscience all over the world , to make tomorrow the day their freedom is restored . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ During Vietnam , we adopted thousands of prisoners of conscience ; they were willing to defend their country , but they were not willing to kill Vietnamese . ’ |
| 30 | There are thousands of metres of film of eruptions and hectares of accounts in newspapers and books , almost all of it devoted to the ‘ human interest ’ situations that arise whenever natural events interrupt the pattern of human life . |