11.   The impact would be nothing like a crude nuclear weapon that might kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people.

12.   Then, after joining the first government established by the anti-Soviet guerrillas, he switched sides again and shelled Kabul for months, killing tens of thousands of people.

13.   The war we fought in that decade was the smaller Korean War, which still managed to kill tens of thousands of Americans.

14.   They point out that allied bombers killed tens of thousands of civilians in Germany and Japan during World War II.

15.   They were killing tens of thousands of Afghans, and we were funneling weapons to resistance fighters called mujahideen.

16.   They worry that an accident might send plutonium dust showering down on Florida or the world, killing tens of thousands.

17.   Rebels in the West African nation have killed tens of thousands of civilians and intentionally maimed many others.

18.   A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of lobsters in Long Island Sound, alarming lobstermen and conservation officials.

19.   Advocates say the bombings forestalled the need for a U.S. invasion that would have killed tens of thousands of American soldiers.

20.   Authorities began forcing hundreds of people from their homes Monday, after they remained in a disaster area where mudslides that last month killed tens of thousands.