Thousands starved or died of disease during the evacuation and its aftermath.

Thousands more Kazakhs tried to escape to China, although most starved in the attempt.

Thousands starved and froze to death while being expelled in slow and ill-equipped trains.

Thousands of Montenegrins starved to death.

Thousands of others, including Paraguay's bravest soldiers and generals, also went to their deaths before firing squads or were hacked to pieces on Solano López's orders.

Thousands of prospectors flocked to the region, and before long W. S. Stratton located the famous Independence lode, one of the largest gold strikes in history.

Thousands of Scotsmen also participated in the English colonization even before the two countries were united in 1707.

Thousands of American replacement troops poured through the city before being deployed to combat operations.

Thousands of Union troops marched in formation and paraded before President Abraham Lincoln, the northern press, and many onlookers from Washington.

Thousands of hives of honey bees are annually carried to cucumber fields just before bloom for this purpose.

Thousands of pilots and mechanics were trained before the facilty was changed into the United Air Lines training center in 1945.

Thousands of sick people would wait in line to stand before Oral Roberts so he could pray for them.

Thousands of enslaved African-Americans lived near the city before the Civil War.

Thousands visited the zoo to say goodbye before he was euthanized in November 2003.

Thousands of years before the events of Skies of Arcadia, six civilizations coexisted on floating continents in the titular skies of Arcadia, a world with no apparent surface that is orbited by six moons of different colors.

Thousands of mules had been sent from Egypt and other countries before adequate arrangements had been made to feed and water them.

Thousands of years before the start of the series, Shinnok, one of the Elder Gods who control the six realms in the Mortal Kombat universe, attempted to become the conqueror of them all.

Thousands of Chilean miners, ranchers, and shopkeepers from the Bío Bío Region are thought to have settled the coasts, mountains, and valleys of what became American California, both before and after the Mexican-American War, and to have helped create the cities of San Francisco, San Jose Santa Barbara, and San Diego, California.

Thousands of tourists found the journey from outside Portrush railway station much quicker and easier than before and, being the world's first hydro-electric tramway, it was an attraction in itself.

Thousands died as a result of failing to heed Blackburn's advice to boil potentially contaminated water before drinking it.

Thousands of wick lamps in coconut shells are lit and floated out into these flooded waters on the evening of May 6 before the processions.

Thousands of cases of autism-related claims are pending before the court.

Thousands of years in the past and before Pebbles and Bamm Bamm are born, Wilma and Betty are trying to butter up Fred so that he'll agree to have their vacation in Honolurock.

Thousands of young men were sent to the college to receive training and education before entering World War II.

Thousands of years before Spanish colonization, about a thousand people lived on fortified cliffs and hilltops scattered across today's Uyugan.

Thousands of fans began to swarm the field before the final play had even ended.

Thousands of years before recorded history, the ancestors Archie and the gang live as cavemen, interacting with dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts.

Thousands of Paleolithic-era artifacts have been recovered from the nearby area of Ca ’ Belvedere ( for Casa Belvedere ) and dated to around 850, 000 years before the present, making them the oldest evidence of human habitation in Italy.

His first opportunity to dance to his own choreography came in his next picture Thousands Cheer, where he performed a mock-love dance with a mop.

Thousands of people died of starvation during the first half of the 20th century.

Thousands of children took their first airplane rides there until 2003.

Thousands of languages were spoken in North and South America prior to first contact with Europeans between the beginning of the 11th century ( Norwegian settlement of Greenland and attempted settlement of Labrador and Newfoundland ) and the end of the 15th century ( the voyages of Christopher Columbus ).

Thousands of workers are building the Uganda Railway, Africa's first railroad, and intense heat and sickness make it a formidable task.

Thousands of entries are submitted during the Call for Entries procession, and each is first rated by Associate Members of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.

Thousands of Norwegians settled in Minnesota in the last half of the 19th and first quarter of the 20th century.

Thousands of Bahá ' ís dismissed from government jobs in the early 1980s receive no unemployment benefits and have been required to repay the Government for salaries or pensions received from the first day of employment.

Thousands of tickets for the first two games had been given away for free or sold well below the advertised prices.

The first use recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary of the phrase, to hell in a hand basket, is in The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details, by I. Windslow Ayer, in alleging that, at a meeting of the Order of the Sons of Liberty, Judge Morris of the Circuit Court of Illinois said: " Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would ‘ send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket.

Thousands of girls Catholic and Non-Catholic alike have since passed through Waverley the small inadequate bungalow which was all the accommodation at first offered, has given place to a group of tastefully conceived buildings which dominate the town of Mussoorie.

Thousands of Greek youths formed a new political organisation called The Neolaia Lambraki ( Νεολαία Λαμπράκη – Lambrakis Youth ); the first secretary of Neolaia Lambraki was Mikis Theodorakis, one of Lambrakis's friends and fellow activists.

Thousands of years later, about 3, 700 B. C., the first humans settled here.

Thousands gather to watch the opening spectacle hoping to get one of the free beers from the first barrel.

Thousands died of starvation, sickness and exposure during the first the first few years in Central Asia.

Thousands of volunteers, Jehovah's Witnesses, worked over a nine-month period to renovate and clean the theater back to its original beauty and splendor, for its first assembly in August 1985.