41.   Long before a new apartment block is complete, thousands line up at real estate offices for lotteries merely to bid on the apartments.

42.   Several thousand more patiently lined the streets from the airport to the Intercontinental hotel, where Jackson and his entourage have booked the upper five floors.

43.   Still, thousands lined the route of the mostly flat stage as it wound through open fields and picturesque villages.

44.   Thousands lined the course to cheer on the runners.

45.   Thousands lined the streets earlier in the day to watch a procession of performers march through the walled Citadel.

46.   Thousands lined up outside blood banks.

47.   Thousands of Afghans lined up outside a barbed wire fence on the Afghan-Pakistan border at Torkham, where Taliban fighters beat people back with sticks.

48.   Thousands of Britons lined up outside to sign condolence books in a room at the palace.

49.   Thousands of Palestinians lined the streets to welcome arriving busloads of PLO troops.

50.   Thousands of people lined streets to silently watch the protesters.