Example sentences of "[num] thousand [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sixty-four thousand dollar question is this : as the electrons arrive one by one at the detector , which slit have they come through ? |
| 2 | ‘ The sixty-four thousand dollar question . |
| 3 | Now with a hundred and eighty thousand of pensioners and forty thousand scheme members and all of the trustees currently made up of employees and scheme members , it 's pretty obvious where any correction of loss of funding is gon na come from is n't it . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've managed to organize an association of about forty thousand home workers , small vendors and contract workers , by combining a trade union approach with co-operatives . ’ |
| 5 | Leicester City Council says that with forty thousand light bulbs to install it does n't really have any alternative to starting so early . |
| 6 | But when he was asked What are you carrying anyway ? he said Thirteen thousand fir trees . |
| 7 | And it was quite true cos there were thirteen thousand of these little t Er he did n't explain the size , he just said Thirteen thousand fir trees . |
| 8 | Over 10 thousand hunt supporters travelled from as far away as Scotland and Norfolk to protest against Kevin Macnamara 's bill , which is to be debated in the House of Commons tomorrow . |
| 9 | Six thousand campaign leaflets have already been circulated . |
| 10 | That 's probably a set of tyres or something - it 's not a great deal of money in this day and age - but then failure is limited to actual breakage , wear and tear is excluded , it does n't cover the cost of working materials such as gaskets , if the vehicle has been modified in any way it 's excluded , it excludes any personal injury resulting from the breakdown , it covers erm the schedule is invalid if you have not covered the servicing aspects on page ten , the servicing aspects on page ten require you within ten days or two hundred and fifty miles of three thousand miles intervals — most cars now are six thousand mile intervals — to have the oil changed , so there 's a built-in additional service , and so it goes on . |
| 11 | In one of the biggest about turns in city politics , six thousand council house tenants have been told that their rents wo n't after all be going up by forty five per cent , and their homes wo n't be sold to a private landlord . |
| 12 | So there 's there is quite a variety of across all of our companies but on average it 's six hundred pound and on average it 's a six thousand pound assignment er er target . |
| 13 | A six thousand pound grant for a proggie mat |
| 14 | A six thousand pound grant for exhibition |
| 15 | Partick Thistle have announced plans for a new six thousand seater stand costing two point three million pounds . |
| 16 | The sixty-six thousand volt transformer at Bodenham near Hereford was severly damaged . |
| 17 | The court heard that Robert Mantack was an habitual gambler , and that he murdered the woman to claim a ninety thousand pound insurance policy . |
| 18 | In actual fact Mr , Mr Goodwin had ninety thousand lump sum benefit under his pension |
| 19 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 20 | Or a three thousand pound pay rise ? |
| 21 | Thank you Chairman , I , I , I 'm rather amazed actually , at Colonel 's er , comments because er , in Stratton St Margaret there has been a sixty-one percent increase in crime , and a four and a half percent detection , decrease in the detection and prosecution of crime , and I was absolutely amazed when he come out with the figure that there 's going to be a seven hundred and fifty- three thousand pound shortfall in the police budget , when on the radio , in my car this morning , from a very reputable source of Wiltshire , there was a police officer on there this morning , saying how good they were in producing a freebee newspaper for distribution to every household in the county , to show the police offi , the Chief Constable 's report this year . |
| 22 | Still offering them a three thousand pound saving . |
| 23 | An item listed as extraordinary effectively writes out of the accounts a twenty three thousand pound loan … given to this man to help buy a house . |
| 24 | An item listed as extraordinary effectively writes out of the accounts a twenty three thousand pound loan … given to this man to help buy a house . |
| 25 | Among the million and a half dispatched from urban Britain into the countryside were between two to three thousand refugee children who were experiencing their second dramatic upheaval within months . |
| 26 | It comes as welcome news for around three thousand pension holders in Swindon . |
| 27 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |
| 28 | Between two and three thousand Maquis fighters were armed , and captured allied airmen were freed . |
| 29 | ‘ Adam has acquired one hundred and ninety-two thousand thirty-shilling shares worth two hundred and eighty-eight thousand pounds for fifteen thousand pounds , which leaves you , Miranda , holding sixty per cent of the shares . ’ |
| 30 | But after a sixty-five thousand pound refurbishment , the bells have been restored to full working order . |