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Thousands died, and hundreds of thousands more fled, often into neighboring China.
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Thousands starved or died of disease during the evacuation and its aftermath.
Thousands succumbed to a yellow fever during the summer months and more than half of the French army died because of disease.
Thousands of angry Hamas loyalists marched on February 24, 2008 at the funeral of a Muslim preacher who died in PNA custody, turning the ceremony into a rare show of defiance against President Mahmoud Abbas.
Thousands of soldiers died in the city during the retreat ; the mass graves were uncovered in 2002.
Thousands died of drowning, starvation, or illness as a result of the deportation.
Thousands of prisoners held in appalling conditions in Nazi concentration camps such Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen also died of typhus during World War II, including Anne Frank at the age of 15 and her sister Margot.
Thousands of people died of starvation during the first half of the 20th century.
Thousands of combatants on both sides died in the fighting, alongside civilians, many of which were reportedly ethnic Russians ; unclaimed bodies were later collected and buried in mass graves on the city outskirts.
Thousands were dispatched for " re-education " in remote parts of the country, where many died and many more were kept for up to ten years.
" Thousands should have died, not hundreds ," he has said.
Thousands died in forced labor camps such as Lambinowice, Zgoda labour camp, Central Labour Camp Potulice, Central Labour Camp Jaworzno, Glaz, Milecin, Gronowo, and Sikawa.
Thousands of Armenians died on the journey.
Thousands of Acadians died in the expulsions, mainly from diseases and drowning when ships were lost.
Thousands more died and were deported in fighting in eastern Slavonia, but the JNA was the principal actor in that part of the conflict.
Thousands of Nigerians of southern origin died as a result of the riot.
Thousands died, and many more fled the area to other states.
Thousands of warriors died and with the army decimated the generals had no choice but to return home.
Thousands of people have died in fighting since the passage of Sharia law in the Muslim dominated northern region after a return to civilian rule in 1999.
Thousands became ill, and some children died, after consuming the product.
Thousands of them died in disease epidemics common to the squalor of refugee camps, such as cholera and dysentery.
Thousands died or were arrived sick and were treated in the hospital ( equipped for less than one hundred patients ) in the summer of 1847 ; in fact, many boats that reached Grosse-Île had lost the bulk of their passengers and crew, and many more died in quarantine on or near the island.
Thousands of Irishmen did join ( particularly those from working class areas, where unemployment was high ) and many died in the war.
Thousands died in these marches.
Thousands and hundreds
Thousands of Cuban and Spanish tabaqueros came to the area from Key West, Cuba and New York to produce hundreds of millions of cigars annually.
Thousands of copies were distributed locally with hundreds more being sent to GIs in Vietnam.
Thousands of garage bands were extant in the USA and Canada during the era and hundreds produced regional hits.
Thousands were arrested, sentenced to jail and many hundreds were forced to leave for West Germany.
Thousands winter each year on the Topolobampo lagoons in Mexico, and even in the southernmost major wintering location – Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta in Colombia – hundreds of birds can be seen.
Thousands of people had helped search for the young woman and hundreds attended her funeral.
" Thousands of people follow him wherever he goes ; posters of his round, cheerful face adorn the walls of buildings in every major Western city ; newspaper reporters and TV cameras cover his every public appearance – particularly his mass rallies, which attract hundreds of thousands of followers each.
" Two Thousands " is the most common usage, though some people would say is not clearly separate from references to the century or millennium, even though nineteen hundreds is commonly used for the 1900s decade without implying the whole 20th century.
) Thousands of tax-evaders were prosecuted as were leading banks, producing hundreds of millions of Irish pounds of the Irish Exchequer through financial settlements and fines.
Thousands of garage bands were extant in the USA and Canada during the era and hundreds produced regional hits.
Thousands of people were beaten and hundreds detained as the result of the attack, including the opposition's presidential candidate Alaksandr Kazulin.
Thousands of feet ( hundreds of meters ) of lavas erupted, pushing the ocean over to the west.
Thousands of Red Guards were imprisoned, hundreds of them were executed and the rest were transported to POW camps.
Thousands of people came to the port call ceremonies and Bertholf and his crew had the responsibility of keeping hundreds of small craft out of the way of the battleships and cruisers as the made their way to moorings.
Thousands of citizens were massacred and hundreds of houses were burnt down.
Thousands of Baluch have been forcefully disappeared and hundreds of thousands have been killed in cold-blood and massacred by aerial bombardments by these ruthless and uncivilised states.
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Thousands of Kazakhs were killed, and thousands of others fled to China and Mongolia.
Thousands upon thousands of these luminares lined the many blocks of Windcrest.
: Thousands arising around you, thousands arising around you.
Thousands of League members, and many thousands more who received technical training through its publications, served in the conflict.
Thousands of photographs have survived, but thousands are still missing.
Thousands of employees were sent home starting in the early afternoon of February 6, but thousands more were still caught by the storm.
Thousands of flights were canceled, and thousands of nonunion employees were laid off.
Thousands looked forward to the arrival of the magnificent ships in Elliot Bay giving civilians the opportunity to tour these vessels while giving the thousands of sailors an opportunity to take leave and join in Seattle ’ s summer celebration.
... Thousands and tens of thousands have enjoyed the music found alone in the Sacred Harp.
Thousands of people died and thousands more were injured in the disaster.
Thousands would gather daily around the tank at Esplanade to collect water, while the government brought thousands of water drums from far off distances to empty into wells at Bori Bunder, Chinch Bunder, and Dongri.
Thousands and thousands of calls from people to voters saying, ' You know, the McCains have a black baby.
Thousands attend the parade annually each Spring in Queens, with thousands of attendees crowding Liberty Avenue and Smoky Oval Park.
Thousands upon thousands of poor and hungry children were fed free breakfasts every day by the Party under this program.
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