11.   A January blizzard left thousands of potholes.

12.   A strike would therefore leave thousands of passengers without alternatives.

13.   Afterward, each of them left Washington, despite the growing public frustration over the budget impasse that has left thousands of federal employees in limbo.

14.   Along the way, the fanatical knights impaled and decapitated their victims, leaving thousands of Muslims, Jews and Eastern Christians dead.

15.   But if the United States waited too long, it might leave thousands of American citizens stranded in a war zone without an avenue of escape.

16.   But state statistics suggest this expansion may leave thousands of Hispanic welfare mothers without language classes and training.

17.   But stealthy attacks might leave thousands of people unaware of biological time bombs ticking away inside their bodies.

18.   But that was just long enough to leave thousands of motorists fuming on the clogged streets of the neighboring towns of Leonia, Edgewater and Englewood Cliffs.

19.   By most accounts, the shelter effort is running weeks behind schedule, leaving thousands of people searching for cover as November passes into December.

20.   Falling tree limbs knocked down many power lines, leaving thousands of homes without heat or electricity.