Example sentences of "[prep] a thousand [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after a thousand years or more , evidence of pagan beliefs is still widespread in churches . |
| 2 | Battle of a Thousand Woes . |
| 3 | In fourth-century-BC Athens it was possible to buy manuscripts reproduced by hand-copying at relatively low cost , and the scriptoria in which such copying was done — there is a reference in Pliny the Younger to an edition of a thousand copies — remained important through Roman to medieval times . |
| 4 | Out of a thousand cases reported in United States waters over a five-year period , only two resulted in death . |
| 5 | Closer , on the other side , he could see the Grampians , a tapestry of a thousand shades of green . |
| 6 | They stepped through , into another world ; a world of ancient delights , of strict order made to seem like casual occurrence , of a thousand shades of green contrasted against the grey of stone , the white of walls , the red of tile . |
| 7 | The king awoke out of his sleep to a frightful sound , like a great crash of thunder and the hissing flight of a thousand arrows . |
| 8 | It 's in all our books , our films ; it 's the sunset of a thousand stories . |
| 9 | The use of a mouse with its linked screen pointer to select programs , copy disks and carry out any of a thousand functions is now part and parcel of everyday computer life . |
| 10 | on a victim of a thousand jokes and petty crimes |
| 11 | Out of a thousand cities housing billions … |
| 12 | " If nothing has yet been settled with regard to Ald. Hallam 's gift of a thousand pounds , it seems to me well worth considering whether it would not be more advantageous to the School to endow a " Hallam Lectureship in Natural Science " than to found a scholarship . |
| 13 | Er this er James can I ask you erm if we could establish what the stage er the next stage remain unspent probably er so that we the er paper indicates er er schedule of balance of a thousand pounds . |
| 14 | Offenders could face a fine of a thousand pounds . |
| 15 | In Northampton a blind widow of eighty-two has been robbed of a thousand pounds at her home . |
| 16 | The scheme relies on private money — in this case a donation of a thousand pounds from BT . |
| 17 | Now , I hope I 've got these facts right and I 'm sure that not , that Eileen may correct me that er we have er forty hundred pounds in the budget , budget for this er the erm South Wales congregation has , has kindly erm given us grant of a thousand pounds and I understand from the secretary of con , Cardiff congregation , and he 's also offered a thousand pounds I do n't know whether we 've got that yet ? |
| 18 | This year , Mary , vice-President , and I , together with Eddie and Derek , representing the Southern region , went to St Peter 's Centre , which is a day centre for people suffering from Alzheimer 's disease , towards the north of Portsmouth , to contribute our cheque of a thousand pounds , which is going towards the extension of the centre . |
| 19 | Some succubus of the night with the power of a thousand scorpions seized my mind . ’ |
| 20 | He follows the Downtown postings , up , round , through , and over ; one of a thousand particles circling the orbits of a complex molecule . |
| 21 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |
| 22 | In fact the day before this instruction was issued to all units , 6 Armoured Division in Italy had already taken the surrender of a group headed by Gen Damjanovic of some 10,000 men describing themselves as Chetniks and Royalists , accompanied by upwards of a thousand civilians , including women and children [ KP 48 ] . |
| 23 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 24 | When the River Erne reaches Fermanagh , it broadens out into immense Lough Erne , a fragmented inland sea of a thousand islands that bisects the whole county and reaches clear to Cavan in the south . |
| 25 | He was a skilful lover : tender and gentle in the beginning , then powerful , persistent , rough almost — until , his passion rising in harmony with hers , the climax came like the bursting of a thousand stars , like the beginning and ending of the world . |
| 26 | Cley served the Emperor of the Eternal Galaxy under the Banner of a Thousand Stars . |
| 27 | As the saying goes , the journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step , so by now you should be thinking of putting all your good intentions into practice and getting out to walk . |
| 28 | Their task … to find a route from Manaus to Georgetown … a distance of a thousand miles … |
| 29 | The architecture is that of a thousand prep-schools ; just as at a boarding school , authority seems at the same time ludicrous , arbitrary , and deadly serious . |
| 30 | For a man , this does not seem to be so much of a problem ; he can be one of a squadron of marching , identically dressed soldiers , or one of a thousand employees in a firm , and still know that he is special and unique . |