Bankers came by the thousands to win favorable legislation.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

You konw, the earth is gonna be burnt up by the sun one of these thousands of years.

在未来几千年中的某一年,地球会被太阳燃成灰烬。

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But now with social networking, Iranians can gather by the thousands on a Facebook group, or communicate using Twitter.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

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

VOA: standard.2010.03.28

Blackbirds by the thousands can descend and devour newly dropped seeds.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

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

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

VOA: special.2009.06.22

Much of the information came from observations made by thousands of volunteers in more than four thousand places over forty years.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

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

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

VOA: special.2009.03.30

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

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

VOA: special.2010.06.27

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

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

VOA: special.2009.09.14

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

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

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

They came by the hundreds of thousands.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Meanwhile,humanitarian efforts are being stepped up by the international community to bring relief to the thousands of refugees from the conflict.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

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

The two are expected to discuss possible reunions for tens of thousands of families separated by the 1950's fighting.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

The settlements, whose growth has been promoted by past Israeli governments, are home to hundreds of thousands of Israelis.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

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

VOA: standard.2010.04.18

He says particular care must be given to the thousands of children who were left behind, many of whom have become traumatized by the events.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

The report comes as U.S.President Barack Obama weighs a new strategy for the eight-year war, including a request by military leaders for thousands of additional troops.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

In the more than 30 tent cities hosting thousands of people made homeless by last Monday's 6.3 magnitude earthquake, priests offered communion wafers at makeshift altars.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12