1.   A company the size of Midvale might have thousands of drawings, in a crazy quilt of different sizes.

2.   She has thousands of friends on MySpace.

3.   Neurones can have literally thousands of dendrites, each having many branches.

4.   They still play honest hard rock, but now it sounds fresher and has thousands of hard edges.

5.   An ill-designed ballot in Palm Beach County had thousands of confused Gore voters mistakenly plunking for Patrick Buchanan, as Buchanan himself admits.

6.   And Iomega bulls point to a number of large companies that supposedly have thousands of trouble-free Jaz drives in place.

7.   And they say that surcharges harm small banks because they give consumers an incentive to bank with large institutions that have thousands of cash machines.

8.   Anyone with access to the Internet can be a publisher and have thousands of readers.

9.   As president, Bush will have thousands of appointments to make.