Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] thousand [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The employed client at twenty four thousand pounds a year income , other P H I cover of eight thousand a year so assuming the state person 's ability benefit is two , nine , one , seven , what 's the maximum Healthmaster benefit allowed ? |
| 2 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 3 | Farmers are going out of business at the rate of five thousand every year . |
| 4 | The number of people seeking asylum in the United Kingdom has risen sharply from five thousand a year in 1988 to over thirty thousand in 1990 . |
| 5 | And in I was planting an average , there was five of us working and the students and we used to average about fourteen to sixteen thousand every year of young plants . |
| 6 | ‘ You try living your adult life on nine thousand a year , ’ she said to Him , and bent , with a sigh , to her typewriter . |
| 7 | Up to twenty thousand a day are being allowed to cross into Jordan from Iraq , but thousands more are said to be waiting just across the border . |
| 8 | Oh that is what , fifteen thousand fifteen to twenty thousand a year is n't it ? |
| 9 | Ya so that if the goes up to thirty thousand the reserve might be large enough to give it to sell it for that price . |
| 10 | By the way , there was one thing that we did n't mention when we were talking about C P O's that is very pertinent is that already , I 've got it on authority , that one of the C P O's that we 've employed as a civilian has been offered a job with an alarm company at fifteen thousand a year |
| 11 | I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us … |
| 12 | I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us … |