Question

How do I match a regex where a line break can happen anywhere?

For example, if I am trying to match “thousands of turtle eggs”, it should match all the following cases. (or even the cases when line breaks are inside the words.)

Scientists have revealed that a mammoth effort to move *thousands of turtle eggs* from beaches around the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill may have saved almost 15,000 of the reptiles.   

Scientists have revealed that a mammoth effort to move *thousands 
of turtle eggs* from beaches around the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill may have saved almost 15,000 of the reptiles.

Scientists have revealed that a mammoth effort to move *thousands of 
turtle eggs* from beaches around the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill may have saved almost 15,000 of the reptiles.

Scientists have revealed that a mammoth effort to move *thousands of turtle 
eggs* from beaches around the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill may have saved almost 15,000 of the reptiles.

Answer 1

  /thousands\s+of\s+turtle\s+eggs/

or this version to ensure thousands and eggs are not part of another word (like …eggsbath)

  /\bthousands\s+of\s+turtle\s+eggs\b/