1.   Elton teamed up with Eric Clapton to wow thousands at a Wembley rock concert.

2.   LONDONERS gathered in their thousands at Hyde Park, last Saturday to welcome bandsmen from all over Scotland and Ireland to the British Piping Championships.

3.   Assad has suppressed Islamic fundamentalists in Syria, massacring thousands at Hama.

4.   A few people sported worn-out Elian T-shirts that were worn by hundreds of thousands at past rallies.

5.   Bush held a similarly jubilant event in Marion, Ill., Friday afternoon, speaking to thousands at an airplane hangar.

6.   But Africanized bees are more dangerous because they are much more aggressive and can attack by the thousands at the slightest provocation.

7.   But some private safety experts said the number was in the hundreds of thousands at most, not millions.

8.   Candidates used to addressing hundreds or thousands at big-city fund-raisers face pods of school kids and senior citizens in small-town opera houses.

9.   Clinton addressed a crowd of several thousand at Miami-Dade Community College and urged them to be sure to vote on Election Day.

10.   Derek Harper or one of the other cast of thousands at point guard backing in toward the basket.