Sentence examples for had been thousands from inspiring English sources

"But I wouldn't have cared if there had been thousands," he later told the News of the World.

Mr. Collier noted that there had been thousands of pages of testimony, 12 years of complex estate litigation and four lawyers involved in the case.

Last year at this time, she said, there had been thousands of dead birds; this year that number is dramatically down.

There had been thousands of Krupp ore pits and coal mines, a chain of Krupp hotels, a group of Krupp banks, a Krupp cement works, and a score of private estates.

But in a Sunday night news conference, the opposition National Salvation Front alleged there had been thousands of complaints of voting irregularities that "went beyond the rigging that used to take place under the previous regime".

Observer organisations said there had been thousands of violations including so-called carousel voting, with busloads of voters being driven around to different polling stations.

It had been 11th in 1998.

The previous year Yiannopoulos had been 84th.

The previous American best had been 14th, accomplished four times.

Menifee, the runner-up, had been 14th at the mile mark.

My speciality up to then had been 18th-century art and literature".