by the thousands

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He tipped down in the direction of a herd of white-eared kob, streaming north by the thousands.
他斜拉着飞机朝一群白耳水羚的方向飞去，它们从北方涌过来，数量足有几千头之多。
On wet nights eels have been known to cross land from a pond to a river by the thousands, using each other's moist bodies as a bridge.
我们曾经获悉，在潮湿的夜晚，数千条鳗鱼结队从池塘出来，以各自湿润和身体为桥梁，穿过陆地，奔向河流。
Being the weekend tourists were out by the thousands, the colorful awnings and plane trees in the Place de l’Horloge shading a boisterous lunch crowd.
几千名周末游客在这里，鲜艳的遮阳棚和洪拉殿的悬铃树映衬着喧闹的午餐人群。

He said the slaves of the South would escape by the thousands to freedom in the North.
You konw, the earth is gonna be burnt up by the sun one of these thousands of years.
在未来几千年中的某一年,地球会被太阳燃成灰烬。
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Bankers came by the thousands to win favorable legislation.

It is true that blue-collar, unionized, metal-bending shops that employed workers by the thousands are gone.
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