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Meanwhile, in South-East Asia, factories fling out suits by the thousands that sell for just a few pounds each.

Sky-watchers flocked by the thousands to Polynesian islands or booked passage on cruise ships to see the total solar eclipse.

Rats by the thousands are at his heels, and as he sees the waterfront at the bottom of the hill, he panics and starts to run for the bridge.

He took God's power for granted, and went up with his infantry regiments, his horsemen by the thousands, and his eighty elephants.

And safe water outlets, including boreholes and protected natural springs , can be constructed by the thousands within a year.

The results were shocking, given that China's short wine history is dwarfed by the thousands of years of Bordeaux production.

On wet nights eels have been known to cross land from a pond to a river by the thousands, using each other's moist bodies as a bridge.

Hurd is beloved by investors for his relentless cost-cutting but widely scorned by the thousands of employees he has axed along the way.

A much greater danger is faced by the thousands of species - including many large, photogenic mammals - living in tropical rainforests.

They came by the thousands, from across state lines and across the country, in campers, recreational vehicles and by motorcycle.

Armenian tourists, too, braving accusations of treachery back home, have been heading by the thousands to Turkey's Mediterranean resorts.

Today visitors come by the thousands - the great and simple of the earth - all in a spirit of marvel.

Britain and America may be separated by the thousands of miles of the Atlantic, but we are united by shared values that can never be broken.

Los Angeles papers reported that beginning on the day Monahan's story appeared, men by the thousands poured into the city.

People kill each other by the thousands and do not see themselves as brothers and sisters.

Overloaded lorries trundled by the thousands through the despoiled Bellary hills, throwing up clouds of red dust.

On Jan. 25, security forces predictably deployed by the thousands at the sites of each announced demonstration.

They had been murdered. Not by the thousands or even hundreds of thousands, but by the millions.

Birds and animals are also released by the thousands in a symbolic act to liberation, of giving freedom to those who are in captivity.

But I have also been deeply touched by the thousands of ordinary Chinese citizens whose paths I have crossed in our travels.

Rosy bee-eaters perform a mating dance on the shores of Loango National Park. The birds gather here by the thousands to dig their nests.

"Options calls of strikes well over $100 a barrel are being bought by the thousands, " said Nauman Barakat of Macquarie Futures in New York.

The New York Times and other papers covered the news along with tallies of huge companies that were shedding jobs by the thousands.

Now, when people are starving by the thousands, there is no system to ensure the aid gets to those who need it.

Despite these challenges, volunteers signed up by the thousands.

Magpie geese nest by the thousands in coastal wetlands.

Books are being scanned into digital form by the thousands.

As Nelson predicted, moths are piled up by the thousands.

Bankers came by the thousands to win favorable legislation. Experts of all kinds offered new ideas on how to rescue the economy.

The star received letters by the thousands.

He wrote letters by the thousands.

Some species gather by the thousands to form multicellular bodies that can crawl.

They are being smuggled in by the thousands.

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Chinese investors, who are entering the market by the thousands each day, at first ignored the admonitions ;

Children are dying by the thousands