Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [art] thousand [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's less than a thousand pounds left . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Not for less than a thousand pounds ! ’ cried Lady Durbeyfield . |
| 3 | That is to say , an object fired vertically upward from the surface of the star with a velocity of less than a thousand kilometers per second would be dragged back by the gravitational field of the star and would return to the surface , whereas an object with a velocity greater than that would escape to infinity . |
| 4 | ‘ Charles the Fifth , who was born less than a thousand years ago ? … |
| 5 | This was partly because trolls generally are , in any case , but it was exacerbated by the fact that the sudden and instantaneous teleportation from its lair in the Rammerorck Mountains three thousand miles away and a thousand yards closer to the Rim had raised its internal temperature to a dangerous level , in accordance with the laws of conservation of energy . |
| 6 | More eloquently than a thousand words the picture showed the need for , and the difficulty of , reconciliation between the sexes . |
| 7 | The Queen Mother has been celebrating her ninety-second birthday with a walkabout to meet more than a thousand well-wishers who had gathered outside Clarence House . |
| 8 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |
| 9 | The exhibition continues this week , with more than a thousand youngsters expected to attend . |
| 10 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |
| 11 | More than a thousand students packed into the debating chamber to hear Lennox Lewis talk about his life in the ring . |
| 12 | It seems reasonable to draw these strands together and to presume that considerably more than a thousand teachers are now working in off-site units . |
| 13 | SLIMMERS have piled on more than a thousand pounds in little over a month … and they are delighted . |
| 14 | But Richard Oastler was still in his debtor 's prison , more than a thousand pounds short of the repayment of his debt , despite the money which Luke and thousands like him kept on collecting , week after week , from their wages . |
| 15 | A stuffed lion which is expected to sell for more than a thousand pounds is just one of the unusual exhibits at a auction of taxidermy . |
| 16 | Many defendants have been fined of more than a thousand pounds , simnplky because they earned reasonable salries . |
| 17 | They 've raised more than a thousand pounds to fly the five year old to Britain for surgery . |
| 18 | They were ordered to open the safe and hand over cash and cheques amounting to more than a thousand pounds . |
| 19 | But the bath is expected to fetch more than a thousand pounds . |
| 20 | Only three Surrey batsmen scored more than a thousand championship runs last year — Darren Bicknell , Graham Thorpe and David Ward . |
| 21 | There were more than a thousand roses arranged in his suite . |
| 22 | Paul Prescott had to learn more than a thousand lines while studying for five A levels . |
| 23 | Because of the complexity of the polymer there were more than a thousand peaks or data points per sample but Burmester reduced this vast amount of information by computer clustering . |
| 24 | " Well , when my grandfather went , more than a thousand buffalo were sacrificed , and the death-village , which was twice as big as this , was completely burned down . |
| 25 | With more than a thousand videos at up to fifty pounds each and many more magazines fetching anything up to thirty pounds apiece this is the biggest haul ever for the Northants force . |
| 26 | And for one lady from Little Crosby accompanied by her pet labrador the gardening was interrupted to watch more than a thousand runners competing in the 11th Crosby 10 snaking past her home |
| 27 | There never were 6,000 knights in England ; and it was rare in the twelfth century for more than a thousand knights to gather in answer to a feudal summons . |
| 28 | More than a thousand knights jostled in the ducal castle and halls of Caen . |
| 29 | MORE THAN a thousand peace campaigners crowded into Trinity College , Dublin , last night to spell out one of the Irish capital 's most eloquent protests against IRA terrorism . |
| 30 | More than a thousand antiques have been recovered by detectives working out of Cirencester police station.They raided five different addresses in London earlier this week.And they found a hoard of paintings , porcelain and furniture estimated to be worth over two million pounds . |