It had no debt. And it had support for the future provided by thousands of dollars in gifts.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

The demonstrators were kept away from the summit site by thousands of police, troops,helicopters, boats,tall fences and occasionally,tear gas.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Thai authorities say they spread hate speech and lies and instigated violence during a two-month demonstration by thousands of protesters in Bangkok.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Before the meeting Pope Benedict celebrated a large open-air mass in Valletta, attended by thousands of people.

VOA: standard.2010.04.18

Beijing's night sky was lit up by thousands of exploding fireworks to scare off evil spirits.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

The goal is to withdraw all combat troops by next September, but leave thousands of troops to train Iraqi forces.

VOA: special.2009.10.10

Tens of thousands of people come to the city to attend the ten-day South by Southwest Music,Film and Interactive festivals.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

He died last year. By that time, hundreds of thousands of the filters were in use in developing countries.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

He says looking back thousands of years can help researchers look forward by understanding how a disease changed over time.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

The ground still shows the path cut deep into the earth by the wheels of thousands of wagons.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Yet for thousands of years rinderpest has affected people by killing cattle and other animals and causing starvation.

VOA: special.2010.11.02

The speech followed days of protests by hundreds of thousands of supporters of presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.

VOA: special.2009.06.20

A national team led by two doctors at the University of California, Davis,studied hospital records from thousands of children with head injuries.

VOA: special.2009.10.28

And they came by the hundreds of thousands to take jobs in steel factories in Pennsylvania and the coal mines of West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

But she also called attention to thousands of killings by the rebels in reaction to the genocide.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

He said the slaves of the South would escape by the thousands to freedom in the North.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

It is formed by the action of wind and water on rocks over thousands of years.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

By comparison, each weed plant can produce tens or even hundreds of thousands of seeds.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

This nest is made up of thousands of pieces of bamboo tied together with the kind of brightly colored rope usually used by mountain climbers.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

The boys usually win." In Washington,D.C., thousands of people will attend a concert with performances by musicians including Reba McIntire, Darius Rucker and Gladys Knight.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

They formed little by little tens of thousands of years ago when sea levels dropped.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

Railroad companies employed thousands of workers to create the smooth,flat pathways required by trains.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

The United Nations says hundreds of thousands of people are being displaced by the latest fighting in Swat and other parts of North West Frontier province.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

Slowly the area became what visitors see today -- a dry land of high flat mesa tops and deep canyons formed through thousands of years by flowing rivers.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Hundreds of thousands of people see the canyon by air each year.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

Thousands of American troops should be in the area by Monday.

VOA: special.2010.01.16

Bankers came by the thousands to win favorable legislation.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

By eighteen ninety-seven,thousands of people were out of work.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

They came by the hundreds of thousands.

VOA: special.2010.05.13