Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [adj] thousand [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman sacked by the RAF because she became pregnant has been awarded twenty-two thousand pounds compensation . |
| 2 | A chemicals company has been fined eight thousand pounds after admitting that a fire which destroyed its factory was started when a worker used a blowlamp to unblock a pipe . |
| 3 | A company has been fined two thousand pounds for allowing almost fifty gallons of diesel fuel to pollute a river . |
| 4 | The Marquess of Blandford has been fined one thousand pounds for not paying taxi fares . |
| 5 | The highly specialised craft of lacquer painting and decoration seems to have been invented several thousand years ago in China , where the lacquer tree grows . |
| 6 | But if it had been an unusually intelligent bird — an escaped mynah bird , perhaps , or a parrot that had been blown several thousand miles off course by very strong winds — ; it would have thought : |
| 7 | Once the last post had been played two thousand eyes closed , as soldiers under canvas for the first time tried to sleep . |
| 8 | The court heard many potential eye witnesses in the pub had been imtimated and one man who did give evidence claimed a hit man had been paid twenty thousand pounds to kill him . |
| 9 | Six miners have been trapped two thousand feet underground at Blisthorpe Colliery in Nottinghamshire . |