Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] a thousand [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In front of them , about twenty yards away , he had seen a barbed-wire fence some three feet high which an old corporal told him had already cost a thousand lives of those who had done nothing more than erect it . |
| 2 | ‘ And each bite probably contained a thousand calories . ’ |
| 3 | Now , I hope I 've got these facts right and I 'm sure that not , that Eileen may correct me that er we have er forty hundred pounds in the budget , budget for this er the erm South Wales congregation has , has kindly erm given us grant of a thousand pounds and I understand from the secretary of con , Cardiff congregation , and he 's also offered a thousand pounds I do n't know whether we 've got that yet ? |
| 4 | ‘ You have n't got a thousand pounds , ’ said Mrs Wexford . |
| 5 | He says he was initially paid a thousand pounds and at one point offered a further fifty . |