31.   Between them they defrauded the company out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

32.   Botanists will divide the world of plants into hundreds of thousands of different species.

33.   Britain, like most other countries, has been entering treaties and alliances with other countries for hundreds of years.

34.   Bustling New Bedford, home port to hundreds of ships, was the whaling capital of the world.

35.   But all these ideas mean a huge loss of revenue to the Treasury, in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

36.   But Clinton showed that hundreds of federal programs will be on a strict diet during the struggle to eliminate the federal deficit.

37.   But every day hundreds of ordinary workers dice with death to complete these essential tasks.

38.   But it is a middle ground that hundreds of police officers use daily.

39.   But there were neither apologies nor regrets, and the air rang to the sound of hundreds of cheers.

40.   By comparison, lottery tickets can be bought as easily as chewing gum at hundreds of retail outlets and news agents.