Sentence examples for thousands every year from inspiring English sources

The original list numbered in the tens of thousands; every year, on August 6th, the volumes are updated with the names of the Hibakusha — "explosion-affected people" — who subsequently died from the lingering effects of radiation.

-- Sean Hoban, Frankenmuth, Mich .A. The Confraternity of St. James, a nonprofit, nondenominational association of former pilgrims based in London, maintains an extensive Web site, www.csj.org.uk, that can help you plan your pilgrimage to Santiago, a journey that reached its height in the 12th century, but that is still undertaken by thousands every year.

Bad water kills thousands every year.

Iraqis go to Mecca by the thousands every year.

These attract thousands every year, and thousands more study at Israeli yeshivas.

That moment is gone and with it, elephants in the tens of thousands every year.

Meanwhile, gunshot deaths register in the tens of thousands every year.

The PMI sets standards and professional exams that are taken by thousands every year.

The airport shoots thousands every year to keep them out of the airplane engines.

They are also maiming and killing thousands every year, monopolising hospital budgets and wiping out livelihoods.

Our independent shops and our local pubs disappear in their thousands every year.