For five years he had been working a certain river, and had examined hundreds of thousands of stones looking for an emerald.

With mixed emotions, they are now awaiting the release of a ninemonth Government study that is said to examine thousands of such cases.

"It's a pretty exciting find," said Dr. Delaney, who has examined thousands of meteorites.

He has removed tumors from at least 800 rats and has examined thousands of ailing rodents.

At the other end of the evolutionary scale, astronomers have examined thousands of stars for radio signals from extraterrestrials.

The connecting laboratory, where he boiled up pigeon bones and examined thousands of barnacles, is a ruin.

The Times also examined thousands of pages of election documents and canvassing board meeting transcripts and interviewed more than 300 voters in 43 countries.

In the great review which Herschel undertook he doubtless examined hundreds, or perhaps thousands of stars, allowing them to pass away without note or comment.

The Union started a health clinic in 1915, which examined thousands of children, enrolled parents in health classes, and had boys' and girls' clubs.

As a result, it failed to examine hundreds, if not thousands, of people outside Los Alamos who had access to the stolen information about the W-88.