Example sentences of "in a thousand [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flung aside her heavy bedroom curtains and pressed her face to the cold glass but there was nothing there , just the quiet , empty blackness which enveloped the families all over Cornwall who were turning the trencher in a thousand drawing-rooms . |
| 2 | The three formed around 18 months ago and released a trio of EPs in a thousand pressings each . |
| 3 | ‘ For the option , ’ Howard explained to Felicity , walking up and down the terrace , frowning seriously , with the setting sun flashing in a thousand windows of the city behind him , ‘ they 're paying … 30.000,00 . |
| 4 | Less than one in a thousand members of the population belongs to this class . |
| 5 | The gangling 22-year-old , a modern linguist at Queens ' College , Cambridge , is said to have a serious chance of becoming ‘ the first Kinnock in a thousand generations ’ to achieve first-class honours . |
| 6 | Which MP claimed to be the first in a thousand generations of his family to have been to university ? |
| 7 | I can see no more reason to doubt but that these causes in a thousand generations would produce a marked effect , and adapt the form of the fox to catching hares instead of rabbits , than that greyhounds can be improved by selection and careful breeding . |
| 8 | Her face cracked in a thousand lines when she smiled . |
| 9 | There was a pressing , gently swaying wall of vegetation in a thousand shades of green . |
| 10 | The window was made of sugar glass , the substance adopted in a thousand movies to look like the real thing . |
| 11 | I have on several afternoons gone some way towards the beginning of a new mythology , which might in a thousand years puzzle the Germans . |
| 12 | All of which makes the Jorvik Viking Centre not just the journey of a lifetime , but the most exciting journey in a thousand years . |
| 13 | ‘ It 'll all be the same in a thousand years . ’ |
| 14 | Downstairs what he ( he would ) called ‘ the lounge ’ is a beautiful room , much bigger than the other rooms , peculiarly square , you do n't expect it , with one huge crossbeam supported on three uprights in the middle of the room , and other crossbeams and nooks and delicious angles an architect would n't think of once in a thousand years . |
| 15 | ‘ Not in a thousand years ! ’ |
| 16 | Even then it has been calculated , taking systems as a whole , that the maximum rate of sedimentation would have been something like one foot in a thousand years . |
| 17 | The hurricane , the flood or the tsunami may do more in an hour or a day than the ordinary processes of nature have achieved in a thousand years . |
| 18 | It told me things about life in the mills and factories I 'd never have found out for myself in a thousand years . |
| 19 | ‘ That useless baggage would never make a good hostess — not in a thousand years . ’ |
| 20 | No , you 'd never guess in a thousand years . |
| 21 | In just under two hours time Oxford Prison will close down , leaving the city without a gaol for the first time in a thousand years . |
| 22 | Her tone bode no contradiction ; it was the voice so well remembered by all those who , over twelve years , had sat at her feet in a thousand Cabinets . |
| 23 | A miser 's body lies cut in a thousand places by a huge array of coins with sharpened edges . |
| 24 | Each document is at the same time unique and existing in a thousand places . |
| 25 | And best of all the pictures that flew through her mind so happily as she jolted onwards was Michael Swinton 's gratitude and delight , how touched he would be that she had thought of him , how she would seem to him like some sort of Christmas spirit , glittering in a thousand jewels , her arms laden with bounty … |
| 26 | Joyce 's family is numbered with the grains of sand in a thousand egg-timers . |
| 27 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 28 | Delacroix saw the Bedouin in that light , remarking that : ‘ They are closer to nature in a thousand ways , and so beauty has a share in everything they make . ’ |
| 29 | Principles are like the moon that can be reflected in a thousand pools — if we choose to look in the right direction into a pool . |
| 30 | You could cut me in a thousand pieces and lay them out on the street . |