• Maybe this extreme monitoring program will improve the home lives of thousands of British families.

    FORBES: Could cameras make for better parents?

  • Thousands of British forces have been fighting the Taliban in Helmand since 2006.

    BBC: UK forces launch Taliban assault

  • Since the first war against Iraq in 1991, many thousands of British soldiers have spent time in the Middle East.

    BBC: Baroness Thatcher's lasting legacy in Middle East

  • "For the tens of thousands of British tourists in southeast Asia and their relatives and friends here, this will, I know, be a very worrying time, " he added.

    CNN: World reacts to tsunami disaster

  • It is balanced by what we call the " Dunkirk spirit, " named after the heroic escape of thousands of British troops from France at the beginning of World War II.

    CNN: Why Britain doesn't love the Olympics

  • Earlier Mr Blair told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he would not be drawn into a trade war with France, saying it would lead to thousands of British workers being laid off.

    BBC: News Online

  • But he said that if the SFO investigation into BAE had not been dropped, it would have led to "the complete wreckage of a vital strategic relationship and the loss of thousands of British jobs".

    BBC: NEWS | Business | Saudi prince 'received arms cash'

  • The initial growth of the game around the world was led by thousands of British workers who, when called to work abroad, made sure that a ball and a set of rules went with them.

    FORBES: How Technology Has Expanded Our Soccer Narrative

  • John Bumgarner analysed the data released for the Guardian newspaper and concluded that thousands of British email addresses and passwords - including those of defence, intelligence and police officials as well as politicians and Nato advisers - had been revealed.

    BBC: Call for cyberwar 'peacekeepers' force

  • Men of the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Irish Volunteers put aside their differences and rallied to the defence of the Empire, fighting and dying in their thousands in the ranks of the British Army.

    BBC: N. Ireland Politics

  • Britain's Inland Revenue last year won a landmark case obliging Barclays, a British high-street bank, to hand over the bank details of hundreds of thousands of offshore accounts held by British residents.

    ECONOMIST: How to defeat tax cheats

  • The apology will carry much broader symbolic meaning for a people whose forebears occupied Australia for tens of thousands of years before the British claimed it in 1788.

    ECONOMIST: An apology but no compensation

  • Betty McBride, director of policy and communications at the British Heart Foundation, said thousands of children at risk of this "deadly addiction" regularly got tobacco from vending machines, "which conveniently don't ask them to prove their age".

    BBC: Cigarette vending machines banned in England

  • The Miners' Strike is an analysis of an historic and bitter dispute that created turmoil in thousands of lives and dramatically affected British society.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | Minister's panic after strike tragedy

  • There were conflicts, especially over religious issues, but the Jews were no different than Shanghai's tens of thousands of other foreigners, whether British, American, French, German or Japanese.

    CNN: The Ghosts of Shanghai

  • "The public will decry this decision as it supports a trial of British men thousands of miles from Britain, where the alleged crime was committed simply because in the DPP's opinion, the evidence is too weak to prosecute here, " he said.

    BBC: Babar Ahmad and Syed Ahsan private prosecution rejected

  • Thousands of junior doctors are regularly bullied in British hospitals.

    BBC: 'My fellow doctors bullied me'

  • Mr Day predicts that victory in the British courts could win many thousands of Mau Mau veterans six-figure sums in compensation.

    BBC: Mau Mau rebels threaten court action

  • At its height, there were thousands of new cases every month and millions of cattle have been slaughtered at a huge cost to British taxpayers.

    CNN: EU extends tests for mad cow disease

  • Thanks to the generosity of the British and American people, our nations led a significant humanitarian response that helped save hundreds of thousands of lives in Somalia alone, and reached millions of people across the region with food, health care, and water and sanitation services.

    WHITEHOUSE: Share This Post

  • Tens of thousands more congregated in "fan zones" around the British capital to watch the festivities on big screens, their enthusiasm hardly diminished by overcast sky and sporadic showers.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Mold "is a major, devastating part of my patients' lives, " says Ordog, a portly British Columbia native who says he's treated thousands of people for mold exposure at his clinic in a strip mall in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Tens of thousands of people, for instance, illegally tweeted the details the British footballer earlier this year who took out a media gagging order (it was Ryan Giggs), and got away with it, most likely because the numbers of potential arrests were just too high.

    FORBES: When You Break The Law Online - And Don't Know It

  • But that won't satisfy the tens of thousands of people (Muslims and otherwise) who signed petitions calling for this British pair to face British justice.

    BBC: New trial location rules follow terror extraditions

  • But for many British MPs, a war in which thousands died still requires confirmation of the cause for which it was launched.

    CNN: Analysis: WMD hunt vital for Blair

  • It has been five weeks spent thousands of miles from home in a sporting culture that sharply contrasts with the traditional British attitude to football.

    BBC: World Cup memory lane

  • The British government had estimated relatively few Poles would come - hundreds of thousands did.

    BBC: Romanians' mixed feelings over working abroad

  • But the thousands of today's Germans heading for Wembley Saturday will prove that Planck failed and British sport triumphed.

    BBC: Champions League final: Is fussball coming home?

  • "It is a fantastic testimony to the international fame of the Beatles that -- more than 40 years on -- this crossing continues to attract thousands of visitors each year, trying to mimic their iconic 'Abbey Road' album cover, " British heritage minister John Penrose said.

    CNN: Abbey Road crosswalk named historic landmark

  • First, in the wake of the American Revolution, thousands living in the new United States who wanted to stay loyal to the British Crown were forced to flee and start new lives to the north.

    BBC: Jeremy Hinzman (Photograph: Mark Laking)

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