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Example Sentences

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The Eaton and Palisades fires left an urban population of tens of thousands homeless in a single day.

From Los Angeles Times

With hundreds of thousands of soldiers coming back from the front wounded, Russia's prosthetics workshops -- like the one outside Saint Petersburg where AFP met Dmitry -- have been filling up with ex-fighters.

From Barron's

Each year tens of thousands of NHS staff are overpaid - and in the period of time we have data for, that figure has remained roughly the same.

From BBC

Their future - and that of thousands of other IS relatives in Syria - remains unclear.

From BBC

Of the thousands of rules and regulations adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, none are as divisive as the Shareholder Access Rule.

From The Wall Street Journal