Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] a thousand [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judge said he 'd already been punished a thousand times . |
| 2 | A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty . |
| 3 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 4 | It 's been used a thousand times already , as I gather the bed makes clear . |
| 5 | ‘ Their deaths shall be avenged a thousand times ! ’ |
| 6 | A tale , which could and probably will be repeated a thousand times , of the fate of a work of art shaken loose from its context by the tempest of World War II |
| 7 | I have been asked a thousand times for the deep cultural explanation of all sorts of profound differences between ‘ us and them ’ in the last few months . |
| 8 | Peter Cook has been awarded a thousand pounds by the Prince 's Youth Business Trust to set up his own juggling company . |
| 9 | We often lost each other on the seven barges being pushed a thousand miles up the Zaire River , once Conrad 's Congo . |
| 10 | On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun : |
| 11 | ‘ A bad argument remains a bad argument even if it is repeated a thousand times . ’ |
| 12 | Black , because it had been burned a thousand years ago ; it still showed the shape of the face impressed upon it . |
| 13 | The nights grew colder , but in the early morning the rising sun was caught a thousand times in the droplets of moisture that formed in the webs that spiders wove across the bars of Creggan 's cage . |
| 14 | Around the church , cottages and the remains of the county 's largest motte-and-bailey castle are the three large fields , only parts of which have ever been enclosed , where the feudal system of agriculture was practised a thousand years ago . |