1.   A guerrilla uprising has raged for most of the last decade, killing thousands as Indian troops have been sent in to put it down.

2.   Dead lobsters, starfish and other animals washed ashore by the thousand as the oil slick spread.

3.   Genes are made up of thousands of As, Cs, Ts and Gs, the amino acids that make up the genetic alphabet.

4.   Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy and thousands just as brave fought the hard way, with iron will.

5.   Mitsubishi concedes that false sales were entered, though it insists that the numbers were in the hundreds, not the thousands as Automotive News reported.

6.   The association expects the list to grow into the thousands as its workers reach more remote Aboriginal communities.

7.   The crowd swelled to a few thousand as the demonstrators set out for the U.S. Embassy, where they planned to deliver a letter addressed to President Bush.

8.   Their slum landlords are eager to join a housing boom that has been driven partly by the young Westerners who come in the thousands as Krishna devotees.

9.   Delirium swept the crowd of thousands as the black limousine approached and glided slowly to a halt.

10.   Honduras itself saw the least action by death squads of any Central American nation, with hundreds of reported victims compared to thousands as in other countries.