Sentence examples for lay thousands from inspiring English sources

The female I found, dragging her distended abdomen along the ground, would lay thousands of eggs in short burrows in bare soil.

Ecuador relies on petroleum for more than half its export earnings, and Correa has used this oil wealth to make public education and healthcare more accessible and lay thousands of miles of highways.

This was a remote island isolated by shores that lay thousands of miles off the mainland, leaving little allowance for plan B. Things are different now – we have modern technology that brings the world closer together, with capabilities to transport, import and export goods should there be a geographic shortfall in resources.

In their way lay thousands of tons of sand, rubble and stones built up over millennia.

Last season they lay 19th after 13 games but seventh with nine to go.

When Allan Brown was replaced by Stokoe, Sunderland lay 19th and had won just four games all season.

Roche lay 13th at this point, 3'45" down.

Telecom companies ripped up the nation's streets to lay tens of millions of miles of fiber-optic cable.

The consultancies in particular often provide convenience addresses for firms whose real business lies thousands of miles away.

The two whales' feeding ranges lie thousands of miles apart, near the top and bottom of the globe.

In these 15 separate elements lie thousands of different examples of combinations.