31.   But thousands remain.

32.   But thousands remained in evacuation centers, Antara said.

33.   But, thousands still remain homeless as floodwaters rise across the country.

34.   By Friday night, thousands remained in shelters, unable to return to their flooded homes.

35.   But thousands more remain trapped in eastern Zaire and have been moving through the forests trying to avoid fighting between rebels and government forces.

36.   Civilians continued to flee the battered city, but thousands more remained trapped by the fighting, running short of food, water and medicine.

37.   Concern is mounting that winter will bring a humanitarian disaster if thousands remain homeless by the first snowfall.

38.   Concern is mounting that winter will bring a humanitarian disaster if thousands remain homeless by the time the first snows fall.

39.   Government troops and ethnic Albanian insurgents clashed Monday in northern Macedonia, where thousands of civilians remain trapped in rebel-held villages.

40.   Hundreds of laborers were killed by a cyclone, many others fled to nearby villages, and thousands remain missing a week after the storm struck.