Example sentences of "a thousand [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's a thousand things I want to ask you , Mr O'Dell . |
| 2 | ‘ A thousand leagues I 'll wait for you ! ’ |
| 3 | Something like that , trying to remember now what it was , sixteen hundred , sixteen hundred that was it and it says your credit limit is sixteen , sixteen , you could spend up to sixteen hundred pounds , whether you got it or not you can spend it , so we said if we 're gon na get this computer because you get these Air Miles out of it , you know , every ten pounds you get an Air Mile , well if he 's getting a computer over a thousand pounds you know with all the paraphernalia that goes with it , well that 's a lot of Air Miles there , well we said we 'll get it through Access , but there is n't , our credit limit on Access is n't enough to pay for the computer , sixteen hundred it 's more than sixteen hundred , in , in the long , once he 's got his printer and God knows what you know , so I phoned them up and he said erm is it possible to adjust the limit upwards ? |
| 4 | Now , I hope I 've got these facts right and I 'm sure that not , that Eileen may correct me that er we have er forty hundred pounds in the budget , budget for this er the erm South Wales congregation has , has kindly erm given us grant of a thousand pounds and I understand from the secretary of con , Cardiff congregation , and he 's also offered a thousand pounds I do n't know whether we 've got that yet ? |
| 5 | They gave it a thousand letters they gave it money |
| 6 | ‘ This pool looks like a thousand others I 've seen . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've told you a thousand times we ca n't afford it , or rather , I 'm not going to afford it . |
| 8 | For all that you 've been in and out of our house a thousand times you do n't know the way they are . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 11 | Escorted by Francis Lee as a striker of Olympic-standard diving technique , ironically , the man who bluffed a thousand referees he brushed pokerfaced past the press corps suffering from an acute case of ref-induced parrot-sickness . |