1.   As thousands remain buried beneath skyscraper rubble, some angry Americans are talking about bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age.

2.   But he said thousands of tickets remain for track and field and that some sessions may be available after the lottery.

3.   But rights monitors abroad say that thousands of people remain in jail or labor camps for publicly advocating democratic change.

4.   But thousands more remain at large in the tangled wilds of eastern Zaire, dead or soon to die.

5.   But thousands of tons remain in equipment and waste.

6.   It is difficult of course to worry too much about the fate of a studio or performance space when thousands of people remain unaccounted for.

7.   Only a few thousand remain.

8.   The angry waters have receded in Mozambique but thousands of people remain homeless.

9.   The Siberian camps are closed, but thousands of people remain in the Chinese gulag.

10.   Thousands of Californians remain in shelters because of flooding.