Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] thousand [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A businessman has given five thousand pounds to a dying man so that he and his family can stay in their home . |
| 2 | It 's estimated that the earthquake in India has claimed twenty thousand lives . |
| 3 | A two-day rave which was expected to attract thirty thousand people has been cancelled . |
| 4 | ‘ It has done forty thousand miles , ’ he was saying . |
| 5 | erm in that situation I fail to understand how that can necessarily be to be honest , because the vehicle in question has done eighty thousand miles . |
| 6 | An appeal in the parish magazine has raised three thousand pounds , still leaving them five thousand short . |
| 7 | A school fire in Buckinghamshire which has caused fifty thousand pounds damage is being treated as arson . |
| 8 | It also seems as if they are at last more prepared to listen to the needs of the local skaters and on top of this a local developer has pledged ten thousand pounds towards the new facility so the future do n't look so gloomy after all . |
| 9 | National Westminster has announced four thousand redundancies and yet you still have to wait ages in the queue at the bank , why is that ? |
| 10 | This has forced fifty thousand tons of coal traffic and ten thousand tons of toxic chemical traffic onto East Anglia 's already congested roads . |
| 11 | President Bush has put four thousand troops on stand-by to tackle any further rioting . |
| 12 | But Roger Mott insists his company has lost fifty thousand pounds — and it will cease trading after March 6 , the deadline for ticket exchange . |
| 13 | So we will guarantee to print five thousand booklets per year . |
| 14 | if you want to spend seven thousand pounds on |
| 15 | Reverend Sawyer needs to make nine thousand pounds savings to get his church out of debt . |
| 16 | Tiles were the ro making the tiles was a major operation because erm when they first tried to make the tiles they tried they dug a hole big hole at Rawcliffe and they they tried to make forty thousand tiles , line them all up in the pit and they brought something like forty tonnes of dry wood chippings from the erm saw mills in er forest but they could n't quite get it hot enough so the whole lot had to be thrown away do again . |
| 17 | Nero has ordered ten thousand hides as they get through a lot of shoe leather with all that clomping . |
| 18 | But I decided to give my countryman a chance , not that I 'd moved four thousand miles to be shown around London by a fellow American , and a hick from the provinces to boot . |
| 19 | A former prisoner from Cardiff has told the court that Gardiner said he 'd offered twenty thousand pounds to Chalky White not to give evidence against him . |
| 20 | In particular Kent has put together a very interesting programme of a festival of food and drink which is taking place at Penthurst Place near Tonbridge Wells , the last weekend in June and again here at the Barbican next year after this particular annual public meeting , music aid , who you mentioned earlier , are putting on a concert er for Save The Children Fund and they hope to raise twenty thousand pounds on that night . |
| 21 | The Liberal Deomocrats hope to take several thousand votes from the Conservatives to win . |
| 22 | If they 'd murdered four thousand Danuese but said three thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine had been killed by ourselves in the Danuese Civil War , then it meant they had killed only one . |
| 23 | We anticipate a shortfall of fifteen thousand pounds compared to our original budget and what we 've done in that is we 've taken an element of seven thousand in a sense below the line so that it does n't affect this committee , but this committee has had to find eight thousand pounds with that shortfall and now the bulk of that has been met by the savings we found elsewhere in the budget and the final item there is er setting up a consultants budget of ten thousand pounds , there 's not a consultants budget of any significance at , at the moment of the committee erm the County Planning Officer anticipates there 's a need for consultants in the minerals local plan work which we 're coming into this year and also to assist in environmental assessments er and special on that . |
| 24 | How are you going to organise four thousand trees being planted ? |
| 25 | Seconds cancel out and you 're going to get six thousand electrons . |
| 26 | Oh hold on , I 've got to collect this thousand pounds and I 'll |
| 27 | I might have earned twelve thousand pounds last year , I 'd like to earn fourteen , say fifteen thousand in my first year with Abbey Life . |
| 28 | A reconstruction of how the burial mound must have looked four thousand years ago has led experts to believe the ceremonies were linked to the appearance of the midsummer sun . |
| 29 | Now if that was totally inherent at the time , then I really fail how to see how it could have done eighty thousand miles , and I think that may be a point that 's put across at the same time . |
| 30 | But it only needs one that you can not avoid , and you 'll be spending said fifty thousand pound plus per annum in respect to that one patient . |