The triangulation task falling to Charles Hutton was considerable: the surveyors had obtained thousands of bearings to more than a thousand points around the mountain.

In recent weeks, the staff has obtained thousands of official records, started visiting schools and opened a special phone line that has received hundreds of calls.

When the Irgun and Lehi fighters ran low on ammunition, they obtained thousands of rounds from the Haganah.

The settlement ends a 20-year legal battle to obtain payment for 44 million documents, 3,700 hours of tapes and thousands of photographs.

But the Government obtained thousands of hours of tape recordings made from Princeton/Newport's trading room.

But an interloper would have to obtain thousands of PINs and computers to influence any election.

This can obtain thousands of DNA sequences, from different genes, quickly, at the same time, relatively cheaply.

Two brothers were arrested yesterday on charges of fraudulently obtaining hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of state unemployment payments for themselves and other people.

Last week, Lanshan protesters obtained thousands of copies of that Beijing newspaper and began distributing them in the county.

Hackers obtained thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information from the firm's clients and started making payments to the charities.