Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] a thousand [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fashion show has raised almost a thousand pounds for a special school for handicapped children . |
| 2 | A man armed with a handgun has stolen around a thousand pounds from an estate agents . |
| 3 | The rose which mantled the house must have put out a thousand flowers and these were at the peak of their blooming , not a petal yet shed , each blossom the pink of a shell within and the pink of coral on its outer side . |
| 4 | In this brutal war , it is estimated that some 60,000 civilians were killed up to 1989 , before the 1989 to 1990 round of fighting which is thought to have claimed over a thousand lives . |
| 5 | Mr Chairman , I , would like to slightly and trying not to be parochial , but having looked at the erm , figures , I , I just can not believe that those are honest figures , I mean there are eleven hundred and sixty nine people unemployed in Craven Arms or something like that , and they 've lost over a thousand jobs over the last few years , and erm , very few of those have been replaced . |
| 6 | Jacqui had paid out a thousand pounds for something that could be reproduced at will . |
| 7 | ‘ What I must do next season is get really , really fit and prove everybody wrong , which I have done about a thousand times . ’ |