Sentence examples for certain thousands from inspiring English sources

Without the PPF, it is certain thousands of workers, who value their pensions almost more than they do their jobs, would be protesting outside No 10.

Right now, one thing is certain: thousands of progressive people in seats where the Lib Dems are duking it out with the Tories (whose manifesto showcases the utterly empty case for FPTP – "it gives voters the chance to kick out a government they are fed up with", apparently) have evidently decided what to do.

So did a certain 19th-century wordsmith.

Does this sound like a certain 17th-century play?

Cummings revived the practice of certain 17th-century poets (notably George Herbert) of "shaping" the poem by typographic arrangements.

In contrast to that magisterial effort, the entries are brief, anecdotal and personal, not unlike certain 17th-century Dutch pictures.

Mr. Adams likened Mr. Marshall's music to "certain 19th- and 20th-century American painters who used landscape as an expression of an elegiac sensibility.

Certain 17th-century masters of the Baroque perhaps show the fullest reference to him, but in ways that have been transformed to exclude any literal similarity.

But this is an uncannily precise description of certain 20th-century works (the Pygmy-inspired piano ?des of Ligeti, for instance).

But this is an uncannily precise description of certain 20th-century works (the Pygmy-inspired piano études of Ligeti, for instance).

"Of all philosophy, logic most appealed to me," said Abelard, who by "logic" understood primarily a discipline not unlike certain 20th-century approaches, the "critical analysis of thought on the basis of linguistic expression".