Example sentences of "[prep] a few thousand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe after a few thousand years of marmot for breakfast , dinner and tea they fancied a change . |
| 2 | Long after the demonstration ended , groups of demonstrators , each of several hundred and some of a few thousand , were dotted about the square , cheering and chanting . |
| 3 | Long after the afternoon demonstration ended , groups of demonstrators , each of several hundred and some of a few thousand , were dotted about the square , cheering and chanting . |
| 4 | If the adventure had to end , no one among the HFS Loans League side dared to imagine that it might end in less than a month 's time in front of a few thousand at Spotland . |
| 5 | Charles … allowed himself for the sake of a few thousand pounds to be regarded as a greedy and litigious landlord rather than as a just ruler or as a national king . |
| 6 | Even if you were only a few hundred miles away instead of a few thousand I could not leave her . |
| 7 | In the thorax and abdomen , for example , the nervous system consists of a chain of paired ‘ ganglia ’ each composed of a few thousand cells . |
| 8 | Wolfe and his opponent Montcalm were mortally wounded in the small-scale encounter of a few thousand men which affected the history of North America as decisively as Plassey affected the history of India . |
| 9 | And I mean I 'm talking in matter of a few thousand pounds , to do for for a whole year . |
| 10 | These have radii of a few thousand miles and densities of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 11 | It is relatively easy to prepare brain samples to examine either under the light microscope , with its maximum useful magnification of a few thousand , or the electron microscope , which can magnify by hundreds of thousands . |
| 12 | These are mosaics from pictures taken at ranges of a few thousand km . |
| 13 | If a star 's mass is less than the Chandrasekhar limit , it can eventually stop contracting and settle down to a possible final state as a " white dwarf " with a radius of a few thousand miles and a density of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 14 | For example , UK-based W Industries , have created a strap-on virtual reality system , available at a price of a few thousand pounds , that enables the wearer to walk through 3-D worlds . |
| 15 | For example , in all but small companies a project of a few thousand pounds would probably be approved by a senior manager , whereas a multi-million pound project will probably require board approval . |
| 16 | Then , in the space of eighteen months , from commanding a regiment of a few thousand men he was to rise to be an Army Commander with over half-a-million at his behest . |
| 17 | United we are a vast army against a few thousand Frenchmen ! 0 Brothers and compatriots , join our society today ! |
| 18 | The first ‘ tent cities ’ for a few thousand people have been set up in the plain near Zakho . |
| 19 | The Powell Duffryn Company came into its own , buying pits up for a few thousand pounds , shutting them down , throwing hundreds out of work . |
| 20 | ‘ But I can do an ad for a few thousand , then show them the sales figures . |
| 21 | At Lima bus station an unemployed mining engineer , who would later sting me for a few thousand intis , told me , ‘ This country , something really wrong with it . |
| 22 | After allowing for a few thousand of natural increase , the Serb and Montenegrin population of Kosovo would have fallen from 237,000 in 1981 to about 220,000 in 1986 . |
| 23 | It costs £100000 a minute to produce top quality graphics , on a computer system costing £10 million , so the people paying do not want something that looks as if it was shot with a camera for a few thousand pounds . |
| 24 | Neutron stars may produce more energy than the Sun soon after they form , when they are active as pulsars , but this phase of energetic activity only lasts for a few thousand years . |
| 25 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 26 | The land is very cheap here — you can buy a piece of land to build a small town on , for a few thousand dollars . |
| 27 | So many religions , such as the religion of Ancient Egypt , for instance , whi which made a great fetish of this , has a belief in a judgment after death , followed by eternal retribution er , heaven effectively for the just and er , damnation effectively for the unjust , and some religions like Catholicism stick in an intermediate state pur purgatory , where you can work , work off a sentence , as it were , for a few , for a few thousand years . |
| 28 | cheque for a few thousand or something , that would have but it were n't . |
| 29 | Of course , the historical analogy is not a completely valid one , for history only concerns the interactions within a single species during a few thousand years , in connection with which geological and climatological changes have played only a minor role ( as in the extinction of Carthage and of the Viking settlements in Greenland ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Dear Batty , I needed money for booze so all I did was rip off a few thousand cup final tickets supposed to be for our lot and flog 'em to some scum supporters . |