1.   Soon after Sri Lanka experienced another series of riots and communal disturbances which left thousands of refugees in temporary homes.

2.   The pits close, leaving thousands without jobs in pit-head villages that they or their fathers once came to for work.

3.   The war has left thousands of children as orphans.

4.   They also left thousands of pounds worth of computer equipment which they had stolen in the raid on the Coulby Newham surgery.

5.   And many are canceling their contracts with the HMOs now, leaving thousands of patients scrambling to find new doctors.

6.   And the collapse of the Soviet Union left thousands of Cold Warriors essentially out of work but still on the payrolls.

7.   As the refugee camps grew in Ingushetia, the Russians temporarily sealed the border, leaving thousands of people stranded in Chechnya and setting off an international outcry.

8.   Before reaching Georgia, the storms caused scattered damage in much of Alabama, downing trees and leaving thousands of Alabamians without power.

9.   A medical center inadvertently left thousands of patient records open on the Internet.