Example sentences of "in a thousand years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have on several afternoons gone some way towards the beginning of a new mythology , which might in a thousand years puzzle the Germans . |
| 2 | All of which makes the Jorvik Viking Centre not just the journey of a lifetime , but the most exciting journey in a thousand years . |
| 3 | ‘ It 'll all be the same in a thousand years . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Not in a thousand years ! ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It told me things about life in the mills and factories I 'd never have found out for myself in a thousand years . |
| 9 | ‘ That useless baggage would never make a good hostess — not in a thousand years . ’ |
| 10 | No , you 'd never guess in a thousand years . |
| 11 | 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 . |