Sentence examples for striking thousands from inspiring English sources

The way he sees it, digital transmission, in doing away with the costly process of striking thousands of prints, will change everything.

It should be intuitive: 98% of balloted professionals are striking; thousands are protesting in the streets, months of snowballing industrial action of dedicated doctors not often accused of heartlessness.

In the tuned percussion ensembles (gamelan) of Java and Bali, for instance, a musical unit of 16 measures may be marked by four instruments: a small gong striking once every odd-numbered measure; a larger gong striking each 4th, 8th, 12th, and 16th measure; another gong striking each 6th, 10th, and 14th; and the large gong ageng sounding in the 16th.

France also produced a number of striking 16th-century towers (Rouen and Chartres cathedrals).

In the old town there are small plazas with striking 18th-century buildings, and a market.

The area around the factory – which is a striking 19th-century building where the products are still made – is now an art village.

They say the building is a striking 19th-century structure, with marble walls, a Corinthian portico and a beautiful skylight rotunda.

With the Tweed as a possibility, the museum had added trustees and raised millions from donors attracted to the vision of future exhibitions in the striking 19th-century courthouse, renovated by the city for $89 million.

Next door Noonan Antiques was showing off a 19th-century copy of a head of Nefertiti ($3,500) by way of Berlin, an adorable 19th-century child's chair ($1,900) and a striking 18th-century pine console with Wedgwood inserts ($3,500).

Alice's Day 2012 (01865 790050; storymuseum.org.uk/alice) The Novium, Chichester A new £6.6m museum, The Novium will be opening in Chichester on 8 July and is the striking 21st-century home of some of the city's most important historical remains.

For two years, it added new trustees and raised millions of dollars from people attracted to its vision -- optimistically detailed on its Web site, mcny.org -- of a greatly expanded museum telling the city's story in the striking 19th-century courthouse.