Example sentences of "[conj] a thousand [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | SLIMMERS have piled on more than a thousand pounds in little over a month … and they are delighted . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 5 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |
| 6 | The television presenter Johnny Morris , famous for his Animal Magic series , has been entertaining more than a thousand children at a wildlife park in the Cotswolds . |
| 7 | MORE THAN a thousand years after St Edward the Martyr , King of England from AD 975 to AD 978 , was murdered at Corfe Castle , Dorset , the Mayor of Shaftesbury is attempting to circumvent a legal log-jam and re-inter some of the Saxon monarch 's remains in the ruins of Shaftesbury Abbey this year . |
| 8 | We had encountered suggestions , in Prieuré de Sion sources , that certain of its early members , and of their offshoot , the Knights Templar , had established contact with certain Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean sects still in existence during the time of the Crusades , more than a thousand years after Jesus 's era . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Other news now , and it 's more than a thousand days since Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza strip began the Intifada or uprising which has cost hundreds of Arab lives . |
| 11 | We are therefore talking about more than a thousand deaths from the Windscale accident . |
| 12 | If one goes to answer your question , to the top end of the range being put before you , the effect will be to release probably more than a thousand acres of greenfield land er for housing development purposes . |
| 13 | In the meantime more than a thousand miles of rivers had been made navigable , but these made no noticeable change in the landscape . |
| 14 | They held their victims hostage for half an hour before making off with twenty thousand pounds worth of gold and a thousand pounds in cash . |
| 15 | Twenty-five ships , and a thousand mercenaries in them . |
| 16 | A fortnight later one thousand men , with a thousand legs , a thousand arms and a thousand eyes between them , were ordered home . |
| 17 | Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die , we know this world is . |
| 18 | " I 'll invite you one of these days soon , James , and a thousand thanks for everything . " |
| 19 | I mean I , I , I , I 've had as many as a thousand marbles in a bag . |
| 20 | A single pound of uranium , it was claimed , could produce the same energy as a thousand tons of coal , whilst a hundred tons of uranium could provide all the electricity that the country could possibly need . |