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1 And secondly, our founders were thousands of years ahead of their time.
2 In the papers every day there were thousands of words about Russia.
3 What was left were thousands of stamps scattered everywhere with no value.
4 Many he'd never heard of; there were thousands of Senators, after all.
5 But he knew they could afford to; there were thousands of them.
6 There were thousands of people waiting to try to get on flights.
7 There were thousands more men in it than in Caesar's foraging party.
8 There were thousands of people standing in the rain with bared heads.
9 There were thousands of them, and none of them were worth it.
10 He claimed there were thousands of researchers hooked up to his neurons.
11 I never knew the man-there were thousands of them; accidents were common.
12 There were thousands like him all over the land of the maple.
13 There were thousands of dolphins swarming, gliding over the ruins of Marinth.
14 There were thousands of Thugs roving over India constantly, during many generations.
15 Even in Peking, quite close to us, there were thousands of soldiery.
16 Before us were thousands upon thousands of flowers and no two alike.
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