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... thousands.   12&12 p.142, Tradition Three
Since this was a very early group, those scores have since multiplied themselves into thousands.


2.
... thousands and chattered in millions.   BB p.3, Bill's Story   Go to page 3 in the Big Book
Everyone spent in thousands and chattered in millions.


3.
... thousands came to a few A.A. meetings ...   BB xx, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
Other thousands came to a few A.A. meetings and at first decided they didn't want the program.

4.
... thousands, largely as the result of excellent ...   12&12 p.17, Foreword
In the next years alcoholics flocked to A.A. by tens of thousands, largely as the result of excellent and continuous publicity freely given by magazines and newspapers throughout the world.


5.
... thousands like him.   BB p.43, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 43 in the Big Book
We hope it strikes home to thousands like him.


6.
... thousands more convincing demonstrations.   BB p.25, There Is A Solution   Go to page 25 in the Big Book
But for the grace of God, there would have been thousands more convincing demonstrations.


7.
... thousands of alcoholics from asylums and hospitals ...   BB p.114, To Wives   Go to page 114 in the Big Book
Since this book was first published, A.A. has released thousands of alcoholics from asylums and hospitals of every kind.


8.
... thousands of alcoholics such transformations, though frequent, ...   BB p.567(569), Appendix II, Spiritual Experience   Display entire Appendix II
Among our rapidly growing membership of thousands of alcoholics such transformations, though frequent, are by no means the rule.

9.
Thousands of dollars a month.   12&12 p.136, Tradition Two
Thousands of dollars a month.


10.
... thousands of dollars for examinations.   BB p.73, Into Action   Go to page 73 in the Big Book
We have spent thousands of dollars for examinations.


11.
... thousands of dollars, for it takes real ...   BB p.137, To Employers   Go to page 137 in the Big Book
My downfall cost the business community unknown thousands of dollars, for it takes real money to train a man for an executive position.

12.
... thousands of frantic letters from distraught alcoholics ...   12&12 p.162, Tradition Seven
He explains that when Jack Alexander's Saturday Evening Post piece broke in 1941, thousands of frantic letters from distraught alcoholics and their families hit the Foundation(*) letterbox in New York.

13.
... thousands of groups must be answered by ...   12&12 p.168, Tradition Eight
Sacks of letters on every conceivable A.A. problem ranging from a lonely-heart Eskimo to the growing pains of thousands of groups must be answered by people who know.


14.
... thousands of hopeless alcoholics who might be ...   BB p.14, Bill's Story   Go to page 14 in the Big Book
While I lay in the hospital the thought came that there were thousands of hopeless alcoholics who might be glad to have what had been so freely given me.


15.
... thousands of men and women who were ...   BB p.17, There Is A Solution   Go to page 17 in the Big Book
We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill.


16.
... thousands of men and women, worldly indeed.   BB p.50, We Agnostics   Go to page 50 in the Big Book
Here are thousands of men and women, worldly indeed.


17.
... thousands of men, much like himself, have ...   BB p.113, To Wives   Go to page 113 in the Big Book
He knows that thousands of men, much like himself, have recovered.


18.
... thousands of such situations.   BB xxvi(xxiv), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
These men may well have a remedy for thousands of such situations.

19.
... thousands of these sometimes frightening people were ...   12&12 p.140, Tradition Three
How could we know that thousands of these sometimes frightening people were to make astonishing recoveries and become our greatest workers and intimate friends?

20.
... thousands of years we have been demanding ...   12&12 p.71, Step Seven
For thousands of years we have been demanding more than our share of security, prestige, and romance.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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