Example sentences of "[prep] thousand [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er one thing or another , I must have spent a couple of thousand pounds on these photos . |
| 2 | Not particularly tough , I ventured , when last year in court cases arising from pollution at ICI sites on the Tees and Mersey , guilty verdicts led to fines of only a couple of thousand pounds in each case : ICI could find that from petty cash . |
| 3 | I do n't think it should become too academic , it should be whatever people want at the grassroots level , we have a couple of thousand years of patriarchy behind us and we 're not going to change things overnight . |
| 4 | Column A shows you how much you will pay per thousand pounds of your loan ( for mortgages of up to and including £30,000 ) . |
| 5 | Senile dementia is estimated at 100 to 200 per thousand individuals aged 70 years or older . |
| 6 | From the 1830s it became the single most important cause of the death of children , peaking at four deaths per thousand children per year aged under 15 ; at worst , 30,000 deaths a year in the 1860s . |
| 7 | Data from readership surveys make it possible to measure cost per thousand readers for most major publications , not merely against the adult population as a whole but against sub-groups of the population . |
| 8 | On Dr Spencer 's application to the FPC for consent to use the deputising service , the committee agreed to renew consent subject to the condition which involved a limit of 15 calls per thousand patients per month . |
| 9 | Thus for calcareous ooze , the rate seems to vary from 0.1 to 1 gramme per square centimetre per thousand years in the less productive yes and from 10 to 30 grammes in the more productive areas . |
| 10 | The rate for siliceous Oozes ranges from as little as 0.05 grammes per square centimetre per thousand years in the tropics , to as high as 50 grammes in the Gulf of California . |