Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] thousand [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe after a few thousand years of marmot for breakfast , dinner and tea they fancied a change . |
| 2 | Throughout visions of , people who also come out tonight there 's there 's been obviously er , a potential saving of a hundred thousand pounds on on members erm I I 'm not gon na I do n't that 's right . |
| 3 | The sewing factory in Buckinghamshire where twenty five workers arrived to find the door locked and the company in receivership , owing them a total of a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 4 | If any of the you , I challenge to go to your bank manager tomorrow , and say to him , I 've had a heart attack , I 'm not going to pay my loan of a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 5 | Driver Colin McRae is champion for the second year running … he 's won all six rounds of the home championship … and if he becomes the first Brit since 76 to win the rally he 'll land the bonus prize of a hundred thousand pounds … |
| 6 | The regard to the job evaluation budget suggests that our original figure of a hundred thousand pounds is not fully necessary and that can all be reduced to fifty percent , to fifty percent or the equivalent say to fifty thousand pounds and the same goes for the judgement with regard to how you are going to have figure with regard to jobs vacancies . |
| 7 | We have included in our proposal this year twenty thousand revenue effects of a hundred thousand pounds capital bid on traffic calming and other similar measures , something which is very popular around the city , as long as you ask people what they want first and which in previous years we put forward as a revenue bid . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And I mean I 'm talking in matter of a few thousand pounds , to do for for a whole year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Wolfe and his opponent Montcalm were mortally wounded in the small-scale encounter of a few thousand men which affected the history of North America as decisively as Plassey affected the history of India . |
| 13 | Then , in the space of eighteen months , from commanding a regiment of a few thousand men he was to rise to be an Army Commander with over half-a-million at his behest . |
| 14 | These have radii of a few thousand miles and densities of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 15 | If a star 's mass is less than the Chandrasekhar limit , it can eventually stop contracting and settle down to a possible final state as a " white dwarf " with a radius of a few thousand miles and a density of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 16 | In the thorax and abdomen , for example , the nervous system consists of a chain of paired ‘ ganglia ’ each composed of a few thousand cells . |
| 17 | United we are a vast army against a few thousand Frenchmen ! 0 Brothers and compatriots , join our society today ! |
| 18 | Wrapped in the folds of the letter was a draft , to her , for a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 19 | The daughters of a man who died after breathing asbestos dust are suing his employers British Rail for a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 20 | Finally sport : Oxford United have made a new signing this afternoon ; Jim Magilton has joined from Liverpool for a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 21 | I 'm gon na sue you for a hundred thousand dollars honey . |
| 22 | The Powell Duffryn Company came into its own , buying pits up for a few thousand pounds , shutting them down , throwing hundreds out of work . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Neutron stars may produce more energy than the Sun soon after they form , when they are active as pulsars , but this phase of energetic activity only lasts for a few thousand years . |
| 25 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 26 | So many religions , such as the religion of Ancient Egypt , for instance , whi which made a great fetish of this , has a belief in a judgment after death , followed by eternal retribution er , heaven effectively for the just and er , damnation effectively for the unjust , and some religions like Catholicism stick in an intermediate state pur purgatory , where you can work , work off a sentence , as it were , for a few , for a few thousand years . |
| 27 | The land is very cheap here — you can buy a piece of land to build a small town on , for a few thousand dollars . |
| 28 | Of course , the historical analogy is not a completely valid one , for history only concerns the interactions within a single species during a few thousand years , in connection with which geological and climatological changes have played only a minor role ( as in the extinction of Carthage and of the Viking settlements in Greenland ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Worth a hundred thousand pounds . |