She is credited with inventing a procedure that has helped to save thousands of lives. |
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The company has disclosed that it will be laying off thousands of workers later this year. |
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This kind of moth is responsible for decimating thousands of trees in our town. |
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More than 300 police officers collected 12,500 statements and checked thousands of cars, without success. |
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After this, overall inspections detected aluminosis in thousands of apartments in peripheral neighborhoods. |
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Crop alteration has been practiced by humankind for thousands of years, since the beginning of civilization. |
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Slight competitive advantage on the part of modern humans has accounted for Neanderthals' decline on a timescale of thousands of years. |
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Dutch traders also imported thousands of slaves to the fledgling colony from Indonesia, Madagascar, and parts of eastern Africa. |
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Australia has a tradition of Aboriginal art which is thousands of years old, the best known forms being rock art and bark painting. |
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Tens of thousands of years ago, waves of people migrated from eastern Siberia across the Bering Strait into North America to settle. |
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For breeders, a single owner may own hundreds or even thousands of animals. |
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The fish hook or similar device has been made by man for many thousands of years. |
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The use of oil lamps began thousands of years ago and continues to this day, although not commonly anymore. |
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The use of such ropes pulled by thousands of workers allowed the Egyptians to move the heavy stones required to build their monuments. |
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People lived on the edge of the desert thousands of years ago since the end of the last glacial period. |
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The United Kingdom has many world class golf courses which can accommodate crowds in the tens of thousands for tournaments. |
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When the French Revolutionary Army of the Rhine was victorious, tens of thousands fled east before it. |
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Single battles like Verdun and the Somme killed hundreds of thousands of men while leaving the stalemate unchanged. |
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South Sudan was at war with at least seven armed groups in 9 of its 10 states, with tens of thousands displaced. |
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The annual biker's service in Saint Michael's Church attracts tens of thousands of bikers. |
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Inuit, or Kalaallit, culture has a strong artistic tradition, dating back thousands of years. |
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The death toll of this famine varies, with even the lowest estimate in the tens of thousands. |
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The territory of Bessarabia has been inhabited by people for thousands of years. |
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Others are spread out over hundreds or thousands of smaller islands, such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Seychelles, and the Maldives. |
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After the victory, typhus swept the fleet, killing off thousands of English mariners. |
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In one raid, in 1941, German bombers killed around one thousand people and left tens of thousands homeless. |
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Honorius then incited the Roman population to massacre tens of thousands of wives and children of foederati Goths serving in the Roman military. |
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Upon his victory in 787 at Verden, Charles ordered the wholesale killing of thousands of pagan Saxon prisoners. |
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Thus, thousands of Italian men and women left Italy and dispersed around the world and this trend only increased as World War I approached. |
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In the first, to about 1900, thousands of Norwegians homesteaded on the Canadian prairies. |
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These regions have served as reindeer calving and summer grounds for thousands of years, and contain many ancient Sami sacred sites. |
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Out of the estimated thousands of drums prior to this period, only about 70 are known to remain today, scattered in museums around Europe. |
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Several thousands of eastern Karelians have migrated to Finland by 1922 from different parts of Eastern Karelia. |
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Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park, to the south of the city centre, attracts thousands of visitors each year to its International Rose Garden. |
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Russia has thousands of rivers and inland bodies of water, providing it with one of the world's largest surface water resources. |
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In the US each year, hundreds of thousands of anchor babies are born to illegal-alien mothers. |
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Some thousands of Welsh settlers moved to other parts of Europe, concentrated in certain areas. |
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In the process, the Goths seized enormous booty and took thousands into captivity. |
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With the end of this conflict, thousands of seamen, including Britain's paramilitary privateers, were relieved of military duty. |
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However, these communities are very small, and usually number only in the hundreds or thousands. |
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Of the thousands of ethnic and cultural minorities in nation states across the world, only a few have this level of acceptance and protection. |
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Heimkehr's introduction explicitly states that hundreds of thousands of Poles of German ethnicity suffered as the characters in the film did. |
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In turn, hundreds of thousands of the Volksdeutsche joined the German forces, either willingly or under compulsion. |
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Hundreds of thousands died or became incapacitated due to the harsh conditions. |
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Frederick William crushed this revolt in 1662, by marching into the city with thousands of troops. |
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As much as tens of thousands of Han slaves were incorporated into Nuosu society every year. |
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The Franciscans used a method of mass conversion, sometimes baptizing many thousands of Indians in a day. |
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The policy-shops draw from the people, especially the poor and ignorant, hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. |
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The software allows you to search thousands of sites at the same time. |
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The Mauritanian Government expelled tens of thousands of black Mauritanians. |
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In February 2011, the waves of the Arab Spring spread to Mauritania, where thousands of people took to the streets of the capital. |
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The Ganges Canal reached 350 miles from Hardwar to Cawnpore, and supplied thousands of miles of distribution canals. |
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Pisa had lost thousands of young men in the battle, causing a population collapse. |
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The ceiling and the chandelier of the main hall were covered with the wing cases of thousands of Asian jewel beetles. |
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Construction of a new city there lasted from 1407 to 1420, employing hundreds of thousands of workers daily. |
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The dynasty had a vast imperial household, staffed with thousands of eunuchs, who were headed by the Directorate of Palace Attendants. |
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Then there was thousands of the bliddy critturs left in the rabbuts' buries. |
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The Buryats fought against Russian invasion since the 1620s and thousands of Buryats were massacred. |
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The Luftwaffe destroyed thousands of Soviet aircraft, yet it failed to destroy the Red Air Force altogether. |
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Much like the seaport of Guangzhou in the south, Yangzhou boasted thousands of foreign traders from all across Asia. |
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The emperor often ordered retrials that allowed thousands of innocent people to be released. |
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Indian scholars maintain that the verses and the history contained in them have been orally transmitted thousands of years before. |
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On the 84th Saudi Arabia National Day, September 23, 2014, the flagpole hoisted a huge Saudi flag before a crowd of thousands. |
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Musketeer would require thousands of troops, leading the British to seek out France as an ally. |
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Nevertheless, in common with many cities in the region, there are thousands of cyclists in the city of Bruges. |
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They earned thousands of dollars on resales of the baseball tickets. |
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In this operations, it was able to save thousands of lives of survivors from vessels and aircraft sunk near the Portuguese waters. |
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The Navy supported the withdrawal of many thousands of Portuguese troops and civilians from Africa, transporting them back to Portugal. |
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According to Nicholas Kristoff, improved healthcare resulting from the war has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. |
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There are also tens of thousands of Mauritanian refugees in Senegal, primarily in the country's north. |
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Within days, Freetown was overwhelmed by the presence of the RUF combatants who came to the city in thousands. |
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Hundreds of thousands of people were forced from their homes and many became refugees in Guinea and Liberia. |
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Until 2002, Sierra Leone lacked a forest management system because of the civil war that caused tens of thousands of deaths. |
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These ships were carrying thousands of kilograms of cocaine, with a street value running into billions of Ghana cedis. |
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The medical tourism sector caters to thousands of European, Latin American, Canadian, and American consumers every year. |
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The Revolutionary Tribunal summarily condemned thousands of people to death by the guillotine, while mobs beat other victims to death. |
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Cuba sent tens of thousands of troops to Angola during the Angolan Civil War. |
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To develop it into sugarcane plantations, the French imported thousands of slaves from Africa. |
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In addition to the thousands of species of fish, the river supports crabs, algae, and turtles. |
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In the interim, thousands of the enslaved Africans had fled to Palmares, and soon the mocambos there had grown into two significant states. |
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It was willingly supported by hundreds of thousands of investors and tax payers, despite the higher taxes on land and a new income tax. |
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The HVO took over the west side of the city and expelled thousands of Bosniaks to the east side. |
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The Inca Empire was the last chapter of thousands of years of Andean civilization. |
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According to the Human Rights Watch, 200,000 Serbs and thousands of Roma fled from Kosovo during and after the war. |
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The last features a parade with elaborately decorated floats and thousands of people. |
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Notably, it is also home to thousands of African immigrants, including people from Nigeria, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
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During the war, thousands of Liberty ships and Victory ships were built, many of them in shipyards that didn't exist before the war. |
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In the 1999 Sambas riots, Dayaks and Malays joined together to massacre thousands of the Madurese migrants. |
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In Kalimantan, thousands were killed in 2001 fighting between Madurese transmigrants and the Dayak people in the Sampit conflict. |
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Hundreds of thousands protested in France against President Sarkozy's economic policies. |
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Lakes of morphoclimatic inheritance often are of medium size and some thousands of years old. |
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Since the development of commercial aviation at least tens of thousands of people have flown around the world. |
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Various models predict the creation of black holes, ranging from a Planck mass to hundreds of thousands of solar masses. |
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There they captured giant sea turtles, Caribbean monk seals, and thousands of seabirds. |
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Tens of thousands more employees work for contractors who have federal contracts, including those with the military. |
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The thousands of sinkholes known as cenotes throughout the region provide access to the groundwater system. |
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Spanish expeditions with thousands of Nahua soldiers marched north and south to conquer new territories. |
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He ordered the gates closed and initiated the killing of many thousands of Aztec nobles, warriors and priests. |
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It was supported by hundreds of thousands of investors and taxpayers, despite the higher taxes on land and a new income tax. |
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The Spanish took thousands of women from the local natives to use as servants and concubines. |
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There was no need for new freight train engines, however, because thousands of the Classes 50 and 52 had been built during the Second World War. |
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It was a natural reserve for thousands of native Peruvian species, including around 3,000 varieties of potato cultivated by the people. |
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During the early 20th century, thousands of immigrants came to the city, including people of German, French, Italian and British descent. |
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Each year between April and August, the island is visited by thousands of birds from 60 species originating from various countries. |
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The persecutions soon numbered thousands of dead and tens of thousands of homeless. |
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For thousands of years, indigenous peoples were the only inhabitants of the territory that is now Maine. |
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Point Reyes' first inhabitants, the Coast Miwok, lived on the land for thousands of years. |
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Plentiful salmon made parts of the river, such as Celilo Falls, hubs of economic activity for thousands of years. |
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The number of trips is still very small compared to the thousands of ships each year through the Suez Canal. |
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Snooker is the ultimate cuesport, with even minor professionals earning hundreds of thousands. |
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Irish language summer colleges in the Gaeltacht are attended by tens of thousands of teenagers annually. |
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By some estimates, the population of the former khanate declined by several thousands during the wars. |
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Histories of the 21st century document that hundreds of thousands of Cossacks were killed by the Soviet Government during Decossackization. |
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The Russians had lost 150,000 in battle and hundreds of thousands of civilians. |
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Consequently, in the late 1930s the Buddhist clergy ceased to exist and thousands of cultural treasures were destroyed. |
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Baikal is home to thousands of species of plants and animals, many of which exist nowhere else in the world. |
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Shamanism has a long history in Manchu civilization and influenced them tremendously over thousands of years. |
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West Clare was one of the worst areas for evictions, where landlords turned thousands of families out and demolished their derisory cabins. |
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Relief efforts were inadequate and hundreds of thousands died in the Great Hunger. |
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Contemporary distinct indigenous groups survive in populations ranging from only a few dozen to hundreds of thousands and more. |
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In 1382 the Golden Horde under Khan Tokhtamysh sacked Moscow, burning the city and carrying off thousands of inhabitants as slaves. |
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In 1521, the combined forces of Crimean Khan Mehmed Giray and his Kazan allies attacked the city and captured thousands of slaves. |
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In 1571, the Crimean Tatars attacked and sacked Moscow, burning everything but the Kremlin and taking thousands of captives as slaves. |
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In addition, tens of thousands of slaves, mostly from India and some from Africa, were carried to the Dutch East Indies. |
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Like most other regions of the world, slavery and forced labor existed in many kingdoms and societies of Africa for thousands of years. |
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At the peak of the slave trade hundreds of thousands of muskets, vast quantities of cloth, gunpowder, and metals were being shipped to Guinea. |
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The peoples of the Old World had had thousands of years for their populations to accommodate to their common diseases. |
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By dusk this murmurating cloud can number thousands or even millions of birds. |
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Within a few years this language had thousands of fluent speakers, primarily in eastern Europe. |
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For this reason, some singles and even albums get over certified by hundreds of thousands of units. |
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During the thousands of years of native habitation on the continent, cultures changed and shifted. |
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As only a few entrance doors were opened, a bottleneck situation ensued with thousands trying to gain entry, and the crush became deadly. |
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A large part of its study lies in classifying and organizing the manifestations of thousands of gods and their aspects. |
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A similar legislated merger in Silesia prompted thousands to join the Old Lutheran movement. |
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Following their surrender at the Battles of Saratoga in October 1777, there were thousands of British and Hessian soldiers in American hands. |
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The dilemma was that tens of thousands of Loyalists were under American control and American retaliation would have been easy. |
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There are thousands of young artists who didn't get a look in, presumably because their work was too attractive to sane people. |
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When Loyalists left the South in 1783, they took thousands of their slaves with them to be slaves in the British West Indies. |
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He has been portrayed in hundreds of films and discussed in hundreds of thousands of books and articles. |
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Second, new machines, especially the rotary press, allowed the printing of tens of thousands of copies a day at a low cost. |
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By 1958, Wembley Stadium hosted annual exhibition games of Gaelic football in England, before tens of thousands of spectators. |
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Almost overnight, these became things that tens of thousands of freed slaves now had to provide for by themselves. |
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States have delegated lawmaking powers to thousands of agencies, townships, counties, cities, and special districts. |
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This game was attended by thousands of people and was a major milestone in developing a set of common rules. |
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During the war, and before the tribunals were set up, thousands of people had been executed without trial by both sides. |
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They quickly attracted hundreds of thousands of converts and founded new churches across the South. |
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After the Civil War, tens of thousands of migrants were attracted to the area by higher wages offered by planters trying to develop land. |
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In the Great Migration, hundreds of thousands of African Americans migrated North and West for jobs and chances to live as full citizens. |
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More problems built up with the boll weevil infestation, when thousands of agricultural jobs were lost. |
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Tens of thousands of taxpaying citizens were without representation for decades into the 20th century. |
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Many thousands of settlers, typified by Daniel Boone, had already reached Kentucky, Tennessee, and adjacent areas. |
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In November 2013, Saudi Arabia expelled thousands of illegal Ethiopian residents from the Kingdom. |
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By 1786, there were several hundred British residents on the shore and several thousands slaves, mostly African. |
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Since 2000, because of deteriorating economic conditions in Zimbabwe, the number of Zimbabweans in Botswana has risen into the tens of thousands. |
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Over 2,500 Hungarians and 722 Soviet troops were killed and thousands more were wounded. |
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A public memorial service, attended by the Queen and thousands of mourners, was held on 10 February 1987 in Westminster Abbey. |
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Brassey took thousands of British engineers and mechanics across the globe to build new lines. |
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In the course of thousands of years, this cumbrous system developed into alphabetic writing. |
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This industry employs thousands of performers along with support and production staff. |
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The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been used for thousands of years to ferment beer and wine, and to leaven bread. |
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There are tens of thousands of women from eastern Europe and Asia working as prostitutes in Dubai. |
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There was also reports of widespread vote rigging, with the French expelling thousands of Somalis before the referendum reached the polls. |
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The author does not fail to recommend the practice, adopted, it is said, by many thousands in the kingdom, of disusing the West India produce. |
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Whereas countries like Pakistan have suffered hundreds of attacks killing tens of thousands and displacing much more. |
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The mindless behaviour of drunken neds and nuisance neighbours brings misery to tens of thousands of honest folk. |
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Stone walls are a kind of masonry construction that has been used for thousands of years. |
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The races take place within view of the City walls and attract tens of thousands of visitors. |
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Soon afterwards, a massive influx in immigration into the area resulted, as prospectors and miners arrived by the thousands. |
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Once completed, hundreds of thousands of United States citizens were enabled to easily migrate Westwards into the state. |
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During this time, thousands of Germans were held in prisons and detention camps or used as forced labour. |
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The town has developed over thousands of years, but it is not yet possible to say how long there has been a permanent settlement. |
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In the fields along the route, and at the stations through which the train passed, thousands stood in silence to pay their last respects. |
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There are a number of degree programs that are taught in English, which attracts thousands of degree and exchange students every year. |
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The handicraft industry employs thousands of people in towns and villages across the country. |
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However, thousands of Irish were living in New Brunswick prior to these events, mainly in Saint John. |
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An estimated 110,000 homes were damaged and thousands of residents were displaced. |
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They imported thousands of slaves from tribes of West Africa, who spoke several different languages. |
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The competition lasted over 60 years and raised thousands of pounds for charities in the Edinburgh area. |
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If Laddies are opening a new betting shop and get McCririck to cut the ribbon, thousands of people will turn up. |
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Much of this activity is secretive but investigations have revealed that tens of thousands of hares could be being culled every year. |
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Rome, for instance, shrank from a population of hundreds of thousands to around 30,000 by the end of the 6th century. |
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Their numbers were swelled by the arrival of thousands of loyalists of Scottish origin both during and after the American Revolution. |
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The championship fight took place before a crowd of thousands. |
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The thousands of migrants and sailors passing through Liverpool resulted in a religious diversity that is still apparent today. |
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The race was established in 1976 and is attended by thousands of onlookers. |
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They were the centerpiece of the event where thousands of Americans celebrated their links to Scotland. |
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From 2005 through to 2007, the country was wracked by many thousands of protests from poor communities. |
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Moving first as religious dissenters and then as industrial workers, many thousands of Welsh people emigrated to America from the 17th century. |
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The cities of the Ancient Near East housed several tens of thousands of people. |
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Roofs, flashings, rain gutters, downspouts, domes, spires, vaults, and doors have been made from copper for hundreds or thousands of years. |
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Lead can accumulate in soils, especially those with a high organic content, where it remains for hundreds to thousands of years. |
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In the language of motion-picture distribution, going wide means launching a movie in thousands of theaters nationwide all on the same day. |
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The oil spill is responsible for the killing of thousands of birds. |
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After thousands of years of human integration into the landscape, Britain lacks any substantial areas of wilderness. |
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Peoples migrating north from Europe had lived in the area for many thousands of years. |
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You enterprised a railroad through the valley, you blasted its rocks away, heaped thousands of tons of shale into its lovely stream. |
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During the battle, celebrated Welsh poet Hedd Wyn died along with thousands of other Welshmen. |
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Archaeological evidence has revealed that the Downs have been inhabited and utilised for thousands of years. |
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Contemporary accounts reported that 498 people lost their lives, though modern estimates put the number in the several thousands. |
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However, there are still thousands of smaller buildings that remain vulnerable to quake damage. |
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Birds at sea were hit hard during the early weeks of the spill, resulting in thousands of deaths. |
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Roadways and bridges were built and hundreds of thousands of trees were planted. |
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Near Wheddon Cross is Snowdrop Valley, which becomes filled with thousands of little white flowers called snowdrops during early spring. |
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Hundreds if not thousands of bottlenose dolphins live in captivity across the world, though exact numbers are hard to determine. |
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The wars also saw thousands of Scots settle south of the border, chiefly in the border counties and Yorkshire. |
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Manuscripts containing at least a part of the New Testament number in the thousands. |
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On Communion Sundays thousands of the members of the seiadau would travel there to receive the sacrament. |
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Colorado also began a haylift in hopes of saving thousands of cattle immobilized by drifts as high as 10 feet. |
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It is said that thousands of these men died in World War I, 10 years later. |
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This revival saw thousands of conversions and also exhibited speaking in tongues. |
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In the face of objections from thousands of street protesters, parliament granted him full immunity from prosecution. |
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In 1348, the Black Death, a lethal plague which had ravaged Europe, took hold in Dublin and killed thousands over the following decade. |
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The long history of breeding has resulted in thousands of different cultivars. |
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Over a century of breeding has resulted in thousands of varieties and cultivars being available from both general and specialist suppliers. |
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Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine. |
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Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands. |
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Hot dogs are a typical street food sold year round in all by the most inclement weather from thousands of pushcarts. |
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He paid thousands of dollars for electric lighting, including bringing electricity and building a bank, as well as a road into the Cahuenga Pass. |
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These thorium resources are enough to power current energy needs for thousands of years. |
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In the aftermath of the war, hundreds of thousands of tons of chemical weapons were disposed of by being dumped in the North Sea. |
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Some species, such as Cidaris abyssicola, can live down to several thousands of meters deep. |
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Francisco Javier de Balmis with the aim of giving thousands the smallpox vaccine. |
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For long years David Adam was rector of Holy Island and ministered to thousands of pilgrims and other visitors. |
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An example of this is Enallaster, which exists by the thousands in certain outcrops of limestone from the Cretaceous period in Texas. |
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This trophont is considered parasitic, contains thousands of cells, and can be several hundred micrometers in length. |
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The chromatophores are a sac containing hundreds of thousands of pigment granules and a large membrane that is folded when retracted. |
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More common species, such as the European honey buzzard Pernis apivorus, can be counted in hundreds of thousands in autumn. |
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During the winter that followed, families starved to death and thousands of peasants died of cold and hunger. |
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This has been used for thousands of years in the domestication of plants and animals. |
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It attracts thousands of visitors and takes place on the full length of the main street, Lord Street. |
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Most strikingly, many species breed tens, hundreds or even thousands of miles inland. |
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In the Falkland Islands, hundreds of thousands of penguins were harvested for their oil each year. |
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Overall the harbour porpoise is not considered threatened and the total population is in the hundreds of thousands. |
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Common dolphins can live in aggregations of hundreds or even thousands of dolphins. |
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In World War II, thousands of allied troops on the little ships in the Dunkirk evacuation saw the welcoming sight of the cliffs. |
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In this form, the waste products are expected to be immobilized for thousands of years. |
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It can linger in soil for thousands of years and its toxic breakdown products inhibit decay of other substances. |
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They may extend over hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of the Earth's surface. |
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They stole thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry from the store. |
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In 1549, the Prayer Book Rebellion caused the deaths of thousands of people from Devon and Cornwall. |
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Although they spend most of their lives in the ocean, species such as gulls can often be found thousands of miles inland. |
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For the many thousands of annual visitors Lundy stamps have become part of the collection of the many British Local Posts collectors. |
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Despite the controversy thousands of dolphins are caught in drive hunts each year. |
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For thousands of years, indigenous peoples of the Arctic have depended on whale meat. |
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The ranks of political prisoners swelled into the thousands, and beatings, torture, and official murder became the order of the day. |
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It links overseas Chinese and their descendants to their heritage, even though they live thousands of miles away from their ancestral homelands. |
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Louis XIV also revoked the Edict of Nantes, forcing thousands of Huguenots into exile. |
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Most books are published by a small number of very large book publishers, but thousands of smaller book publishers exist. |
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Eurostar Trains were suspended that day with thousands of passengers stranded in the run up to Christmas. |
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Despite the fact that humans have occupied the territory of Portugal for thousands of years, something still remains of the original vegetation. |
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The reefs are host to thousands of lifeforms such as plankton, coral, anemones, fish, several species of shark, and many more. |
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The Seerhein emerged in the last thousands of years, when erosion caused the lake level to be lowered by about 10 metres. |
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When thousands left the world and became Monks, they very often did so as clansmen, dutifully following the example of their chief. |
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By 1904 over 37,000 summonses for unpaid school taxes were issued, with thousands having their property seized and 80 protesters going to prison. |
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Have there not been hundreds and thousands of people injured in the depression in value of railroad securities? |
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Many thousands of years ago, an Africoon was loafing in the dust in front of his hut when he felt the need for a snack. |
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A quality automobile is the outcome of the work of skilled engineers and thousands of workers. |
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Species such as humpbacks and blue whales are capable of travelling thousands of miles without feeding. |
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They will not sustain even the din and the shout of so many thousands, much less our charge and our blows. |
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Rice paddy agriculture has existed in Southeast Asia for thousands of years, ranging across the subregion. |
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Awaited by shipping companies, this 'historic event' will cut thousands of miles off their routes. |
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In December 2007, thousands of tonnes of oil were spilled into the North Sea during the loading of a tanker at the Statfjord oil field. |
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Originally a river valley, the Solent has gradually widened and deepened over many thousands of years. |
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By crossing the wild and cultivated maizes, researchers created resistant varieties, saving thousands of farmers from ruin. |
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Towards the end of his reign, the king could muster some 3,000 knights, 9,000 sergeants, 6,000 urban militiamen, and thousands of foot sergeants. |
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Much of these forests and shrublands have been altered beyond recognition by thousands of years of human habitation. |
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Large open water fish like tuna have been a shared fisheries resource for thousands of years but the stocks are now dangerously low. |
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The collections encompass over one million printed books, as well as thousands of journals and electronic resources. |
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Every year, thousands of tourists travel to the site, making it the most visited stone circle in Cumbria. |
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Corpses of soldiers and civilians littered the area, along with thousands of dead cattle and horses. |
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Much of work was carried out by imported labour, including thousands from the Soviet Union, and under the supervision of the German forces. |
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While emigration was restricted under Nasser, thousands of Egyptian professionals were dispatched abroad in the context of the Arab Cold War. |
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Egyptian blue, also known as calcium copper silicate is a pigment used by Egyptians for thousands of years. |
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It was intended to deliver fast paced, exciting cricket accessible to thousands of fans who were put off by the longer versions of the game. |
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Humans have constructed defensive works for many thousands of years, in a variety of increasingly complex designs. |
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In spring and summer, thousands of students from all over Europe gather to attend language courses at the many language schools. |
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Native American peoples lived in what is now North Dakota for thousands of years before the coming of Europeans. |
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Until his death in late 2007, Chinmoy was the spiritual leader to thousands of devoted followers worldwide. |
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According to his followers, Chinmoy composed thousands of short musical compositions, written with lyrics primarily in Bengali and English. |
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The slabs preserved the impressions of leaves from oaks, elms, beeches, birches and willows that had lived thousands of years ago. |
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Germany offers a variety of more than 25,000 castles and palaces and thousands of manor houses. |
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They, like anyone else carrying haplogroup U5 today, share an ancestor with Cheddar Man of many thousands of years ago through his maternal line. |
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Due to the extreme viscosity of the mantle, it will take many thousands of years for the land to reach an equilibrium level. |
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The number of species involved in such pursuits is in the tens of thousands, though the majority do not enter commerce. |
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One phylogenomic study showed that the two new proposed suborders were supported by analyses of thousands of genes. |
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This major horseracing venue is located on the Knavesmire and sees thousands flocking to the city every year for the 15 race meetings. |
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He sold the whole first batch for 5 cents each and later sold thousands yearly. |
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Apples have been grown for thousands of years in Asia and Europe, and were brought to North America by European colonists. |
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The apple tree was perhaps the earliest tree to be cultivated, and its fruits have been improved through selection over thousands of years. |
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It takes place annually in September, and draws thousands of competitors and spectators to the town. |
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Scientific settlements were established on the drift ice and carried thousands of kilometres by ice floes. |
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The Mediterranean outflow water layer can be traced for thousands of kilometres west of the strait, before completely losing its identity. |
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Many thousands of soldiers were lost in battling attempted coups by figures such as Firmus, Magnus Maximus and Eugenius. |
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Some caves probably continued to be painted over a period of several thousands of years. |
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Over time and thousands of years, American indigenous peoples domesticated, bred and cultivated a large array of plant species. |
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According to the National Response Center, the oil industry has thousands of minor accidents in the Gulf of Mexico every year. |
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The peaks are often found hundreds to thousands of meters below the surface, and are therefore considered to be within the deep sea. |
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This long chain of islands and seamounts extends thousands of kilometers northwest from the island of Hawaii. |
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Various indigenous peoples have inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. |
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For thousands of years these barrier islands have survived onslaughts of wind and sea. |
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