Example sentences of "a few thousand [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody cares about a few thousand Masai . |
| 2 | C Walker and Sons was founded in Blackburn 30 years ago by two brothers , Jack and Fred Walker , with a few thousand pounds of capital and has grown from a business with a turnover of under £100,000 in the late 1950s to a £620m concern with 3,400 employees in the UK and Ireland and profits last year of £48.4m . |
| 3 | Mr Murphy says eligibility levels which took account of variations between households and actual , rather than assumed , figures for tax and housing , could be definitively assessed by further analysis of detailed Family Expenditure Survey statistics at the cost of only a few thousand pounds . |
| 4 | Having started in films by putting a few thousand pounds into a short religious picture in 1933 , he went on to form British National , a production company , in association with Lady Yule , the wealthy widow of a Calcutta jute merchant . |
| 5 | The Powell Duffryn Company came into its own , buying pits up for a few thousand pounds , shutting them down , throwing hundreds out of work . |
| 6 | Charles … allowed himself for the sake of a few thousand pounds to be regarded as a greedy and litigious landlord rather than as a just ruler or as a national king . |
| 7 | The 1988 Criminal Justice Act extended it to cover all crimes where a few thousand pounds are involved . |
| 8 | It costs £100000 a minute to produce top quality graphics , on a computer system costing £10 million , so the people paying do not want something that looks as if it was shot with a camera for a few thousand pounds . |
| 9 | Staggering And , after earning at the staggering rate of nearly $60 a second throughout this tournament , he said : ‘ I would rather win Wimbledon again and a few thousand pounds than this tournament and all this money . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Even the rates saving can mean a few thousand pounds additional profit per partner , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Borg , who split with 41-year-old Loredana earlier this year , is now playing tennis tournaments for the over-35s for purses of just a few thousand pounds . |
| 12 | The man , pictured in yesterday 's Sunday Mirror wearing a thick black false beard , also claims he was paid only a few thousand pounds from the massive haul and is now broke . |
| 13 | The Witt Librarian John Sunderland rejects the idea of charging a fee for consulting the archive on the grounds that it would raise only a few thousand pounds . |
| 14 | But a lot of people buy a second hand car privately , and there are pages of these in the Nottingham Evening Post every day you know where people are paying a few hundred pounds , or it may be a few thousand pounds , for a second hand car . |
| 15 | And I mean I 'm talking in matter of a few thousand pounds , to do for for a whole year . |
| 16 | For example , UK-based W Industries , have created a strap-on virtual reality system , available at a price of a few thousand pounds , that enables the wearer to walk through 3-D worlds . |
| 17 | For example , in all but small companies a project of a few thousand pounds would probably be approved by a senior manager , whereas a multi-million pound project will probably require board approval . |
| 18 | You 're not talking about a few thousand pounds but millions , millions I shall be borrowing from various banking concerns who are willing to lend that money on the strength of my reputation . |
| 19 | He 's received a lump sum payment — believed to be a few thousand pounds . |
| 20 | The old man 's offer to buy the cottage was tempting , a few thousand pounds could be put to immediate use , but it was an offer he could n't accept . |
| 21 | An investigation , or a design of a new system , are obviously much more expensive , even a few thousand pounds . |
| 22 | IBM is now making between a few hundred and a few thousand PowerPC 601s a month in Vermont . |
| 23 | ‘ I never heard of a transmat with a range of more than a few thousand kilometres , so I 'd say we 're probably going somewhere else on this planet . ’ |
| 24 | It had sold a few thousand copies in the years before the 1976 court case : within three weeks of its acquittal 600,000 copies were purchased by an avid public . |
| 25 | A few hundred or a few thousand farmers might oppose a return to downland because it would mean lower profits . |
| 26 | Methinks a few thousand Hartlepudlians could form an opinion , especially where George ‘ In the Red Corner ’ Walker 's salary rise is concerned . |
| 27 | Her purse , containing a few thousand lire , was still there ; so were her traveller 's cheques and credit cards . |
| 28 | Still , as long as the occupants are happy huddling in a spartan hut with the fantasy that they are men of the wilds , while people read the Daily Record under a golf umbrella and pass round the digestives a few thousand feet above them on the Ben then who can criticise ? |
| 29 | AS I SAT , gazing out of the Boeing 737 window watching the beautiful Norwegian countryside passing a few thousand feet below , my thoughts cam back to the reason for my visit . |
| 30 | Here a great mass of molten rock , lying only a few thousand feet down in the earth 's crust , heats the rocks on the surface . |