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There were thousands of Republican speakers who focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, emphasizing his childhood poverty.
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There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.
There were no less than six or seven saloons in Ganado, not counting the lower class dives, all vying for the trade of celebrating miners and teamsters.
There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent.
There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.
There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.
There was much sickness in the corps, and the men were, in addition, without the clothing, shoes, and blankets needed for the winter weather.
There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.
There were four from St. John's and four from Christ's, three from Pembroke, and two from each of the colleges, Jesus, Peterhouse, Queens', and Trinity, with Caius, Clare, King's, Magdalene, and Sidney supplying one each in the ordo senioritatis.
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There were mounting calls for the President's resignation in early 2004 with thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets in support of demands for a referendum of confidence in him.
There are at least 500 known games for the Electron and the true total is probably in the thousands.
There are thousands of audio and video codecs, ranging in cost from free to hundreds of dollars or more.
There was also widespread vote rigging, with the French expelling thousands of Somalis before the referendum reached the polls.
There have been Irish settlers in New Brunswick since at least the late 18th century, but during the peak of the Great Irish Famine ( 1845 – 1847 ), thousands of Irish emigrated through Partridge Island in the port of Saint John.
There are hundreds if not thousands of different gain media in which laser operation has been achieved ( see list of laser types for a list of the most important ones ).
There is also significant evidence that massive flood basalt eruptions from magma output lasting thousands of years in what is now the Siberian Traps contributed to environmental stress leading to mass extinction.
There is clear evidence of this in Plato, who refers to competitors in the Panhellenic Games, with opponents numbering in the thousands.
There were hundreds of thousands of abuses, deaths and incidents of torture against a large range of people, from political opponents to ordinary citizens.
There was the clear implication ( though it was not explicitly stated ) that this was the result of a nuclear war hundreds or thousands of years before the time of the plot.
There are also thousands of stamp ( philatelic ) clubs and organizations that provide them with the history and other aspects of stamps.
There are thousands of organizations for collectors: local stamp clubs, special-interest groups, and national organizations.
There are on this island thousands of goats, which the Spaniards call cabritos, which are very wild: you shall sometimes see one or two hundred of them together, and sometimes you may behold them going in a flock almost a mile long .”
There was also widespread vote rigging, with the French expelling thousands of Somalis before the referendum reached the polls.
There are estimated to be between several tens of thousands and more than two hundred thousands of sedevacantists worldwide, mostly concentrated in the United States, Canada, France, the UK, Italy, and Australia, but the actual size of the sedevacantist movement has never been accurately assessed.
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