Sentence examples for thousands of les from inspiring English sources

Thousands of les repentis - 'those who have repented' - were released from jail.

This week marked the beginning of the All Power to the Imagination festival celebrating the 40th anniversary of "les evenements" of May 1968 and its effects on European and American film.

Last week I tuned into a PBS show already in progress - the 25th Anniversary of Les Miserables, taped in London.

the 14th of July (le 14 juillet).

It would in any case have been the most important project of all, for an architect in love with the 12th-century abbey of Le Thoronet in Provence, ever since Chatwin introduced it to him.

According to the late 17th-century theory of le doux commerce, sweet commerce, trade smoothes the rough edges of human interaction.

During spring 2011 the method was tested as a classroom exercise by 60 architectural students enrolled in two graduate-level building science courses in the 2nd floor studio space of le Corbusier's Carpenter Center in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Dalí's waxed appendage is one of the most incisive comments ever made on Velázquez - as passionate as the 19th-century artist Edouard Manet's praise of le peintre des peintres and a lot more pithy than the 20th-century philosopher Michel Foucault's argument that in his masterpiece, Las Meninas, "representation undertakes to represent itself".

During the 35 years before this most influential of 20th-century architects adopted his pseudonym of Le Corbusier in 1922 (the year his epochal career shifted into high gear), he was Charles-Edouard Jeanneret.

This proposition originates apparently from the observation of the effects of severe heat waves in the beginning of the 21st century (Le Tertre et al. 2006; Robine et al. 2008).

The 21st century was marked by the erection of Le Royal, the tallest building in Jordan in the luxurious district of Zahran.