Example sentences of "be a thousand [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am a thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glint on snow . |
| 2 | But for every triumph there are a thousand tragedies . |
| 3 | You are a thousand times a properer man |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , there are a thousand reasons why I wanted them to wait . ’ |
| 5 | And the houses are a thousand pounds each . |
| 6 | Although my neighbours are all barbarians , and you , you are a thousand miles away , there are always two cups on my table . ’ ' |
| 7 | The people who care for these snakes are very clever at milking them and getting the venom from the animal safely , and this is then purified biochemically and erm sent to us as a dried product in a stoppered bottle and the snakes are a thousand miles away , I 'm glad to say . |
| 8 | " " There are a thousand lettuces in a pile at the top of the marsh . |
| 9 | In your job there are a thousand details which you and your team need to pay attention to . |
| 10 | Because what happens , as soon as he 's , go goes back to work , it goes back down again , to what would be a thousand pounds for any future claims to start with again . |
| 11 | Christ , that 's gon na be a thousand pounds on a full comprehensive , just about . |
| 12 | I mean , that must be a thousand pounds ' worth of air tickets . |
| 13 | May God 's punishment be a thousand times worse on you than the harm that you have done to Hector . ’ |
| 14 | Any of them would be a thousand times better than Drummle ! ’ |
| 15 | She tried to shut it all out of her mind , and remember that she should consider herself lucky , for Avenue Foch would be a thousand times worse . |
| 16 | In particular he thinks the educated should have at least two votes , he does n't say how many erm that 's a matter determined case-by-case I take it , erm erratically it could be a thousand votes I mean he does n't rule that out , he does n't say it has to be more than one er two , but erm his view is that the educated to a specially privileged in a specially privileged position because they are erm more able to use their vote sensibly or to be given more than one vote , so we need now there 's going to be a question erm how do you know who the educated people are to make such suggestions , anyone with a university degree will be pleased to hear gets more than one vote on Mill 's system . |
| 17 | I mean is it going to be a thousand ohms , two ohms or what ? |
| 18 | There might be a thousand methods for closing the deal , but in the end the customers will buy only if they want to buy . |
| 19 | ‘ If there were a thousand Departments of Defence in Canada or elsewhere , instead of one , these would still not compete for citizens , because citizens are not their customers ; politicians are ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe 1982 , p. 91 ) . |
| 20 | Anyway , these curtains were a thousand times better than the ones off the skips ; lovely , real linen or silk or thick velvet , lined and interlined , fringed and tasselled . |
| 21 | A bookmark showed the page : ‘ J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans ’ — ‘ I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old . ’ |
| 22 | There were a thousand uses for Herrick 's implants , but most would be used as they had on Haavikko — to make a man vulnerable by making him believe he had done something when he had n't . |
| 23 | There were a thousand men out , Charlie ! |
| 24 | After the signing of the Treaty of Limerick in October 1691 the risk of an invasion via Ireland was slight , but unrest continued in Scotland , with whose problems William III had no sympathy ; he is said to have remarked that he wished it were a thousand miles away . |
| 25 | She knew it did n't make any sense , not after she had spent most of the day wishing she were a thousand miles away from Julius , but she suddenly felt rather desperately in need of human company — even Julius 's . |
| 26 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 27 | I mean if you 're a builder and you receive sixteen thousand , of , of that there 's a thousand pounds from Joe Bloggs builder whatnot , then the er the tax inspector will make a note , and pass on a little note to Joe Bloggs ' file that , yeah he paid Bill Smith a thousand pounds , and i that then should appear in his accounts , and if it does n't , then he 's a ripe subject for being investigated . |
| 28 | can I ask you , it 's a thousand pounds to sell two hundred and fifty of each of the four ? |
| 29 | It 's a thousand pounds . |
| 30 | What the hell does it matter , why pay about five hundred pounds and , and that 's two horses I 've got , that 's a thousand pounds . |