1.   As the catalog notes, kingship, with its elaborate interplay of entitlements and obligations, had a revered tradition extending back thousands of years in India.

2.   Chrysler has said it buys back thousands of vehicles from dissatisfied customers each year under state lemon laws and simply out of good will.

3.   Some of the displays of primitive tools, pottery, and human skeletal remains reach back thousands of years to the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Ages.

4.   The Pashtun have their own tribal laws reaching back thousands of years to govern a people who consider themselves Pashtun first and Pakistani or Afghan second.

5.   The sport has a history tracing back thousands of years to the Pacific regions of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia where warlords often wagered on canoe races.

6.   The wheels convey a gentler sense of Syrian life, and a reminder of a history stretching back thousands of years.

7.   Police used steel-tipped batons to beat back thousands of fans who tried to storm the stadium.

8.   Ice cores from the Greenland ice cap dating back thousands of years showed that the amound of lead in modern snow is much higher than in preindustrial times.

9.   Iranians celebrate on Thursday their new year as part of the Zoroastrian Persian tradition dating back thousands of years.

10.   It also sent back thousands of Romanians who streamed into the country after the fall of the Berlin Wall.