21.   The bankruptcies of many banks and small and medium-size businesses will leave hundreds of thousands of qualified people unemployed, and this includes Moscow.

22.   The abusive priests have left perhaps hundreds of victims.

23.   The changes have left hundreds of newly arrived Guatemalans and others without work permits.

24.   The cancellations, which have left hundreds of customers stranded at airports up and down the state, come as the airline is scaling back its operations.

25.   The eagerness of banks to back the developer ultimately left hundreds of small construction contractors holding millions of dollars in unpaid bills.

26.   The Game and Fish staff left carrying hundreds of pages of papers and rules now made worthless.

27.   The government also refused to accredit several thousand local observers who had applied to monitor the election, leaving hundreds of rural polling stations without enough watchful eyes.

28.   The number of hotel rooms needed was badly overestimated, leaving hundreds of hotels with unfilled rooms.

29.   The technique, however, left hundreds of small wire bristles on the playing surface.

30.   The timber industry charged that the agency is wastefully leaving hundreds of millions of board-feet of lumber to rot in burned or bug-infested stands.