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Example sentences for "seventy thousand"

  • For Agesilaus never deserted his city, though it was besieged by an army of seventy thousand men, when there were very few soldiers within to defend it, and those had been defeated too, but a little before, at the battle of Leuctra.

  • A single-track railroad can supply an army of sixty or seventy thousand men, with the usual number of cavalry and artillery; but beyond that number, or with a large mounted force, the difficulty of supply is very great.

  • These reinforcements gave him altogether about seventy thousand men, without counting what might be added by the new levies already spoken of.

  • Of this one hundred and forty thousand, I take one half, seventy thousand, to be of the age of fifty and under sixty, and the other half to be sixty years and upwards.

  • We will put them down at seventy thousand.

  • New Mexico may have sixty or seventy thousand inhabitants; say seventy thousand.

  • Seventy thousand pounds a year--and Temple Barholm--are not unsubstantial facts.

  • He was going to stick it out because he had promised to endure for a year Temple Barholm and an income of seventy thousand pounds!

  • One festival was celebrated in the city of Bubastus, whither persons resorted from all parts of Egypt, and upwards of seventy thousand, besides children, were seen at it.

  • Their army was now increased to seventy thousand men.

  • It consisted of two hundred ships of war, besides a thousand transports; and the army amounted to upwards of seventy thousand men.

  • He dressed we are told, even when in the country, in brocade and cloth of gold; he never went without a chain about his neck of the value of seventy thousand ducats (!

  • They tell us, that his title to the dukedom was maintained against a collateral pretender by seventy thousand inhabitants of Ferrara.

  • Hence it was with more than usual emotion that the Emperor reviewed the troops, seventy thousand men, at Plevna a few days after its fall.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    becoming more and more; black pudding; cayenne pepper; common measure; could tell; direct reference; full armor; great fleet; her grandmother; hour afterward; manifest error; mighty army; more modern; one could; other counties; seventy feet; seventy guns; seventy pounds; seventy shekels; seventy thousand; seventy weeks; seventy years; sexual differences; she had never seen; show cause; there may