Sentence examples for a number of thousands from inspiring English sources

In the branches were a number of thousands of acorns.

If a number of thousands do it, it gets increasingly difficult," Bernstein said.

"The UK is a number of thousands of miles away and a completely different time zone, which in this case might be quite nice," she smiled.

He warned that after cutting "a number of thousands" of jobs there would be more job reductions in store for the group's 87,000 employees but that cuts would be handled sensitively.

A number of 20th-century monastics were recognized and admired worldwide.

The town has a number of 18th-century buildings, two small harbours, a memorial to Rasmussen, and an airport.

I sought and trialled a number of 17th-century recipes, which are much simpler, in terms of the list of ingredients, than the more contemporary recipes.

A number of 20th-century composers said that it was the necessary next step, that old ways of listening had worn themselves out.

The interdependency of apparent opposites fascinated Melville as it did a number of 19th-century American writers, including the superbly civilised transcendentalists (such as Emerson and Thoreau).

Grounds for divorce were enlarged by a number of 20th-century statutes, leading to the broad "breakdown of marriage" approach of the Divorce Reform Act of 1969.

A number of 19th-century mathematicians found fault with the program of reducing mathematics to arithmetic and set theory as suggested by the work of Cantor and Frege.