Example sentences of "thousands of students " in BNC.
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| 1 | THOUSANDS of students could have their studies disrupted following the decision by the largest lecturers ' union last night to reject the latest pay offers for staff in further and higher education colleges and polytechnics . |
| 2 | Like thousands of students before him , Gedge merely adopted the clichéd student maxims of leftist rhetoric , irrational idealism and an Oxfam season ticket . |
| 3 | In the case of the Open University it is obviously worthwhile to produce well-designed audio-visual material that can be used for teaching thousands of students . |
| 4 | One tenth of Berlin 's city funds go on the universities , which still attract tens of thousands of students from the ‘ mainland ’ of West Germany . |
| 5 | Thousands of students left their dormitories , enraged by the attitude of the authorities over election procedures and their refusal to permit change . |
| 6 | Urumqi ( Urumchi ) , the capital of Xinjiang province , saw thousands of students take to the streets in large demonstrations at the end of the year . |
| 7 | The local party leader in Shanghai , Jiang Zemin , attempted to deter the first demonstration by personally addressing thousands of students at the Jiaotong campus on 19 December , Jiang was a technocrat and moderniser whose future success in the party seemed certain . |
| 8 | Thousands of students , particularly from Beijing , were sent to undertake ‘ social practice ’ during the summer vacation in the hope that contact With ‘ real life ’ would bring them down to earth and give them a more realistic assessment of society . |
| 9 | Several days of unrest followed which spread across the country and involved thousands of students . |
| 10 | It has served to illuminate and inspire many thousands of students , teachers and academics throughout the world . |
| 11 | And yet decade after decade thousands of students were drawn into radical activity . |
| 12 | When thousands of students began their peaceful protest in Tiananmen Square last spring , the eyes of the world turned towards China . |
| 13 | Thousands of students annually attempt important examinations without any practice at all ! |
| 14 | Professor Vo Quy is greeted warmly not only in his native village but also in every corner of Vietnam , where he is hailed as the architect of Vietnam 's regreening programme and a mentor who has inspired thousands of students , colleagues and high government representatives to become conservationists . |
| 15 | So that erm , nobody really kn was the most monotonous job when you had to erm assess literally thousands of students in the end . |
| 16 | The truth is that we are dealing not with one-off exceptional cases of hardship , affecting only a small minority of students , but with a widespread and damaging problem affecting thousands of students . |
| 17 | Police used tear gas and baton charges on Nov. 15 , 1989 , to prevent thousands of students from storming into the Turkish sector of Nicosia in a protest against the division of the island . |
| 18 | Thousands of students demonstrated in Cairo the following day in protest at the death of one student in the fracas . |
| 19 | On April 10 , thousands of students and others fought riot police , and shouted for Eyadema 's resignation . |
| 20 | In May 1990 South Korea experienced the worst popular unrest since Roh had become President as many thousands of students participated in street protests throughout the country . |
| 21 | The decision was greeted by violent demonstrations in Seoul and elsewhere as thousands of students denounced Kim as a traitor and demanded democratic reform and the disbanding of the DLP . |
| 22 | Strict security measures were in force on campuses as thousands of students returned to classes , but no incidents were reported . |
| 23 | Unfortunately the professors object to giving lessons in Arabic , so suddenly we 've got hundreds of thousands of students who need to learn Italian . |
| 24 | Through our joint efforts , we hope to ensure that the new qualifications are relevant to the needs of the thousands of students and trainees now embarked on general SVQ programmes across the country . |
| 25 | Thousands of students in Thailand have built barricades against soldiers and are defying the curfew . |
| 26 | It is hard for us to comprehend that thousands of students have roamed and studied on ‘ our ’ campus since long before most of us were born . |
| 27 | And during that time , thousands of students have socialised in the campus bars , played on the University sports teams and been members of the University clubs and societies . |