The day after the disaster, official sources estimated that more than half a million homes were destroyed and countless thousands damaged.
With each disaster, countless businesses suffer damage, only to discover too late that their existing insurance fails to provide necessary coverage.
"He's damaged countless lives … Now it's time to pay the piper".
Displacements of the adjacent seabed generated gigantic tsunami waves damaging countless coastal communities around the Tohoku region.
PAPYLUM and SURVENIR created non-invasive tools to analyse the state of paper documents, while INKCOR developed ways to neutral - ise the acidity of iron gall ink, used on paper for centuries in Europe and stored in countless but often damaged archives.
A car lying dormant can lead to countless, and priceless, damages: rubber rot, interior mildew, outer rust, engine parts seizing, short circuit wiring, paint bubbling, fiberglass cracking, chrome pitting, brakes freezing, and batteries dying.
Flooding had affected more than 1,400 homes in the area, forcing huge numbers of residents to evacuate their homes, and leaving countless more with irreparable damage.
The idea that "men must act like men" has caused damage to countless individuals -- gay, straight, trans, female, whatever -- that don't have any interest in dignifying the accepted standards of masculinity.
Countless others were badly damaged.
The Syrian government has lost more than 150,000 soldiers and militiamen and countless military assets, so the damage done by the 59 Tomahawk missiles is unlikely to lead to a change in regime policy.
