Sentences with phrase «take thousands upon thousands»

Certain enemies in Destiny, especially bosses, can take thousands upon thousands of bullets to kill.

He has taken thousands upon thousands of showers in minor league ballparks in all 50 states and several countries, and almost all of them were lonely showers, since he is usually finished by the sixth inning.

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When thousands upon thousands of politically minded women needed a makeshift symbol for their movement at January's anti-Trump women's marches held worldwide, they reached into their craft closets and took up an old skill: knitted pink «pussy hats» became the must - have accessories.

Dotzler, who does not have a technical background, took it upon himself to act as a liaison between nontechies willing to serve as bug reporters and the programmers — helping to get the former up to speed and the latter to be more forgiving, and thus bringing thousands of new people into the project.

And is it better to read a long article (and conversation afterward) that takes roughly an hour, or be forced to pay hundreds upon thousands of dollars because you were too lazy to bother to check or credit your sources?

So yes, I have taken out thousands upon thousands of dollars in loans for a degree that I use for one Sunday afternoon a week.

Today, thousands upon thousands from virtually every race and tribe of Americans have taken Kelly's words seriously and seriously disdained them.

The conquering Greeks and Romans made barbaric slave - raids upon this helpless population, taking young men by the thousands.

Once upon a time, I thought that the Christian faith, or at least the purest version of it, had started with Jesus and his disciples, taken a hiatus for about a thousand years during the reign of Roman Catholicism, returned with Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, and gotten properly explained again by the 1895 Bible Conference of Conservative Protestants.

Are you saying that Christians, who believe that Jesus was born of a virgin mother, turned water into wine, multiplied a few fishes to feed thousands, brought forth Lazarus from the tomb, walked on water, commanded the sea, took upon himself the punishment for the sins of all mankind, was crucified yet overcame death three days later to walk among his disciples showing them His resurrected body, and yet Christians can not accept that God has worked wonders in our day by calling latter - day prophets who testify of the reality of Jesus?

and thousands upon thousands more until, finally, the inevitable requests for everyone to shut up took over.

There will be thousands of millions of happy babes, and a hundred thousand sufferers who have taken upon themselves the curse of the knowledge of good and evil.

«Let us not forget the passion of the hundreds of thousands of activists who took pride in Labour's record, and our vision for the future and then with unparalleled conviction acted upon it.»

The hydraulic fracturing process — pushing gallons upon gallons of chemical - laden water into shale rock in order to bubble up natural gas — takes place deep in the ground, thousands of feet below the earth's surface and thousands of feet below the shallow aquifers that provide drinking water.

It took me a while to realize I was eating thousands upon thousands of empty calories.

about the very man who took them - along with thousands upon thousands of others photos akin to them - famed Vancouver street photographer, Foncie Pulice, and his vast body of work, which The Knowledge Network is cataloging as part of an online project and website called

To make up for the low amount of women joining their bogus site they take it upon themselves to build hundreds and possibly thousands of counterfeit profiles.

Online chat rooms for dating have taken over by storm and thousands upon thousands of single men and single women now use a dating site to venture out and find their one true love.

Taking a proactive approach means saying goodbye to resignation and embracing the statistics that there are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of compatible matches out there, you just need to find one.

Thousands of years later, a religious organization worships this renowned savior and has taken it upon themselves to rid the world of all demons.

Started in 1950 as a local fundraiser, the Concours has become the ultimate event for those into classic cars, routinely attracting some of the world's most respected collectors and thousands of fans who descend upon the 18th green at the tony Pebble Beach Golf Course where the show takes place in California.

Or take it from the thousands upon thousands of authors appearing on Amazon.com, where you can find over 7,300 Outskirts Press titles, written by writers and professionals just like you.

Over the course of 2017 thousands upon thousands of Kobo customers have taken to Twitter, Facebook and blogs to talk about their issues with Kobo customer service.

There are, quite literally, thousands upon thousands of web - based essay and paper writing services that will all be willing to take your order for an essay or paper and deliver one to you, as long as you have the money to pay for it?

Another time I was driving through southern Iceland with some friends when we got out of our rental van to take photos of an epic sunset over the mountains... and then we rounded the corner and accidentally stumbled upon Glacier Bay, this incredible lagoon filled with thousands of icebergs.

Next came Paper Mario: The Thousand - Year Door, a title that took all the concepts of the first game and improved upon them, adding more humor and spectacular characters.

In response, thousands upon thousands of people have taken to the streets expressing their distress and consternation.

I know that tornadoes dot the German Rhine where no tornadoes were seen before, I know hurricanes on the Eastern seaboard are behaving differently, I know that Crete was so dry when I saw it that I couldn't imagine olive trees growing there without irrigation, I know that our highways are a half kilometer wide and countless kilometers long, with thousands upon thousands of idling cars sitting on them, ten times a week for as long as I've been alive, and I know that sea captains don't want to traverse the Indian ocean because the almanacs are no longer reasonable guides to chart how long a given voyage from one port to the next might take.

A large cyclone in 1970 caused 500,000 deaths, but a similar cyclone in the same area in late 2007 (including a tsunami - like 2 - metre - high sea water intrusion) caused only 8000 deaths, though affecting the houses or livelihoods or 8 million people: most of the more exposed people received early warning, and took refuge in thousands of government - built cyclone shelters, chiefly schools and other public buildings, made of concrete and other hard materials, and built upon 12 - 15 feet high concrete pillars.

But I had NO idea how many people had used the discussion courses to create change in their communities — thousands upon thousands of people in neighborhoods, universities, churches, and organizations across the world are taking action and creating change because of the Earth Institute!

In passing it should be said that I agree with the gathering voices who are demanding an explanation as to why the CPS, in the face of all this, considered that it was worth expending very many hours and thousands of pounds of taxpayers money upon taking this man through the whole panoply of criminal courts that this country has to offer.

Take for example a murmuration; this is when starlings, thousands upon thousands of them, come together and form a shifting blob.

One hundred and seven thousand members, give or take a few thousand, and we only see the same few who are interested enough to opine upon or debate industry related issues herein.

The banks did not even know how to handle them and were ill equipped to take on the enormous case load of thousands upon thousands of short sale files that hit their loss mitigation departments across the country from Florida, California, Arizona and Nevada.