Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] thousand [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can knock fifty thousand miles off the clock in a few minutes with my high-speed electric drill . |
| 2 | He did it and now Peter Scudamore is out to rewrite the record books and raise fifty thousand pounds for the Animal Health Trust . |
| 3 | Sounds like a lot until you 're told that Peavey produces fifty thousand units in the same period . |
| 4 | Sounds like a lot until you 're told that Peavey produces fifty thousand units in the same period . |
| 5 | By 1851 the family owned forty thousand acres of land , grazing ten thousand sheep and six thousand lambs.John built the family home , Devon house or " Chapple mansions " , a two-storey brick house in 1864 . |
| 6 | For this care I award forty thousand pounds per year and take as a multiplier the figure three to give a sum of one hundred and twenty thousand for the first period . |
| 7 | Steve Kerton says they expect fifty thousand people at the race this weekend … half a million watch the sport in Rotterdam … |
| 8 | One experiment used eight thousand tons of water and was performed in the Morton Salt Mine in Ohio ( to avoid other events taking place , caused by cosmic rays , that might be confused with proton decay ) . |
| 9 | We anticipate a shortfall of fifteen thousand pounds compared to our original budget and what we 've done in that is we 've taken an element of seven thousand in a sense below the line so that it does n't affect this committee , but this committee has had to find eight thousand pounds with that shortfall and now the bulk of that has been met by the savings we found elsewhere in the budget and the final item there is er setting up a consultants budget of ten thousand pounds , there 's not a consultants budget of any significance at , at the moment of the committee erm the County Planning Officer anticipates there 's a need for consultants in the minerals local plan work which we 're coming into this year and also to assist in environmental assessments er and special on that . |
| 10 | A judge gave Peter and Maureen Harris two weeks to find eight thousand pounds . |
| 11 | The Harris family had been given just two weeks to find eight thousand pounds in mortgage arrears . |
| 12 | It was a short she wants fifty thousand pound for ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I did n't take the idea seriously until last night , but , believe me , I do n't need fifty thousand pounds that badly . |
| 15 | Lord Leverhulme has eight thousand acres in Lancashire and another twenty-seven thousand acres in Sutherland . |
| 16 | Where has this thousand pounds come from ? |
| 17 | ‘ As to that machine paying for itself , let me tell you that one side of one tube alone has thirty-nine thousand rivets to be inserted . |
| 18 | The Earl of Yarborough , a mere deputy Lord Lieutenant in Lincolnshire , has twenty-eight thousand acres , over which the family 's pack , the Brockleby Hounds range freely . |
| 19 | As you say three thousand pound a year that could be paid off a place of our own is is just I mean if I have to rent it well I 'll have to rent one . |
| 20 | The first-ever Chiltern Show was supposed to attract ninety thousand visitors . |
| 21 | But I found three thousand dollars . |
| 22 | I found three thousand dollars in my pocket . |
| 23 | The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task . |
| 24 | Now , we have a balance as it already tells you er , in er earlier in the paragraph of this paper that that we had a er balance of sixteen thousand pounds a , in the ministry last year so , if we knock sixteen thousand pounds |
| 25 | Organisers had planned to attract ten thousand youngsters to the airstrip 300 yards away from the pigs . |
| 26 | Well yeah , if if the U K came to me and said , I want ten thousand pens , tell me what which ones they wanted , I would then contact the sales companies , Are you interested |
| 27 | We 've a case where it cost ten thousand pounds . |
| 28 | So the client wants ten thousand pounds a year , with sickness benefit and it costs , you know , twenty-six pounds a month . |
| 29 | There was a tremendous ripping sound as if two giant hands had torn ten thousand miles of black linen down the seam . |
| 30 | Erm this can only exasasberate er an already difficult situation chairman , I do wonder whether the , the people that British Rail are trying to attract to use the service and , and do bear in mind that this County Council recently voted ten thousand pounds in subsidies er to er towards British Rail to enable people to travel on a Sunday . |