Example sentences of "a thousand [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is about a thousand times the temperature at the center of the sun , but temperatures as high as this are reached in H-bomb explosions . |
| 2 | Although a picture may be worth a thousand words the reader still needs to know what the picture relates to . |
| 3 | More eloquently than a thousand words the picture showed the need for , and the difficulty of , reconciliation between the sexes . |
| 4 | For a thousand years the Elves raised this vast sky-reaching structure . |
| 5 | Indeed , during almost a thousand years the only important legislation concerning English highways was a statute dating from the reign of Edward I. It required lords of manors to supervise the felling of trees and undergrowth up to 200ft on both sides of any ‘ highway ’ that led from one market town to another . |
| 6 | The advantage of this rather simple procedure is that in a batch of ( let us say ) a thousand tokens the anomalous patterning of particular lexical items becomes evident . |