1.   Believing gods were pacified by human blood, they killed thousands in human sacrifice.

2.   Proceeds go to the environmental group in the fight to save creatures killed in their thousands in nets set to catch tuna.

3.   The boomerang generation are saving thousands in rent by living at home.

4.   The city invested thousands in improved sewage disposal.

5.   The company invested thousands in an electronic order-control system.

6.   On the basis of relatively small samples, only a few thousand in each of selected states, it proved possible to make accurate predictions of the electoral outcomes.

7.   Her parents did not know which guest house among the thousands in the resort Nicola had stayed in.

8.   His total so far is the highest in the country and puts him thousands ahead in the TFM Radio area.

9.   It was the third raid the gang had made after hearing Miss Castle kept thousands in cash at her home in Trinity Road, Ware, Hertfordshire.

10.   Although the Red Wings were the visitors, they heard the cheers of thousands in this big, new rink downtown in the District of Columbia.