Sentence examples for not many thousands from inspiring English sources

The recipients were not many thousands of miles away.

The international Islamic holy warriors did not; many thousands of radicals from some 40 nations came to learn the lessons of jihad in Afghanistan, and Lashkar's first foot soldiers were among them.

Megasequencing projects abound, characterizing hundreds if not many thousands of samples at a time.

Not many 38th-round picks make it to the major leagues, but Davis, who is built like a tailback, persevered.

It has to be said that, outside our immediate cultural setting, and more than a couple of centuries old, very little makes us laugh at all - there are not many 17th-century Italian plays, let alone operas, likely to strike us as irresistibly comic today.

Not many 20th century systems could be worse than the Soviet economy.

EM: Well, I think, again, one more example of something that is obviously done, but I have not seen anything to convince me that the cost is not many hundreds of dollars per ton.

After all, not many 5th graders actually kiss for real.

Certainly not the many thousands of homes and farms that will have become easy pickings for condemnation under the Supreme Court's notorious "Kelo" decision, or as Texas Gubernatorial Candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn has put it, a "land grab" of historic proportions.

Never before have poultry in so many countries been affected by a deadly form of bird flu.In this section Sitting ducks The genie escapes Too early to tell Fewer poppies, for the present Thou shalt not have fun Reprints Related items Bird flu: Not many deadFeb 5th 2004 Influenza: Crystal clear?Feb 5th 2004A previous outbreak of the disease struck Hong Kong in 1997.

This, however, could not have been the case within the last one hundred years probably not within many hundreds of years for the present lake is fringed with broad expanses of partially submerged forest trees, that must have attained a growth of more than a century before the waters overtook them.