1.   Now taxpayers must pay hundreds of billions of dollars to clean up the mess left by under-capitalised thrifts.

2.   She had to pay hundreds of dollars in auto repairs.

3.   Over the years, the British taxpayer has paid hundreds of millions of pounds to provide electricity below cost for British Aluminium to smelt Ghanaian bauxite in Scotland.

4.   If you wanted style you paid hundreds for it -- so blow the sixty quid on something else -- but what?

5.   Almost all of them have been implicated in paying hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to former President Roh Tae Woo, who left office two years ago.

6.   And it certainly did not mean that everyone who paid hundreds of dollars an hour for his services qualified even remotely as a saint.

7.   And people living overseas who take politics personally are willing to pay hundreds of dollars, missing school or work, to vote.

8.   Andersen paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle shareholder lawsuits claiming that the firm knowingly approved questionable accounting at Waste Management and others.

9.   As a result, consumers pay hundreds of millions of dollars more than they would if the cheaper drug were available.

10.   As a result, consumers pay hundreds of millions of dollars more than they would if the cheaper drugs were available.