Example sentences of "thousand [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're the thousand commanders he 's taking south when we go on campaign . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've told you a thousand times we ca n't afford it , or rather , I 'm not going to afford it . |
| 3 | For all that you 've been in and out of our house a thousand times you do n't know the way they are . ’ |
| 4 | Escorted by Francis Lee as a striker of Olympic-standard diving technique , ironically , the man who bluffed a thousand referees he brushed pokerfaced past the press corps suffering from an acute case of ref-induced parrot-sickness . |
| 5 | It has sixty four pages with one hundred and ninety thousand words They spent two days working around the clock typing it into a computer , now their master disc is being used by a Sunday newspaper to publish the whole thing this weekend . |
| 6 | Well how on earth do you start spot checking on a hundred and twenty eight thousand companies you know , the first nine hundred and ninety five that you do may be the ones that are running perfectly . |
| 7 | ‘ A thousand leagues I 'll wait for you ! ’ |
| 8 | Yes , most people pay to come to NCT classes , and excellent value they are too , for the few thousand parents we manage to teach each year . |
| 9 | But the taxi drivers say if they 're forced to move on they 'll loose the four thousand fares they currently pick up here each week . |
| 10 | After fifteen thousand years they were very good at it ! |
| 11 | Two thousand years we have kept these three Treasures safe here . |
| 12 | For two thousand years we lived in darkness . |
| 13 | And for two thousand years we have had a government not our own . |
| 14 | For two thousand years we have done that . |
| 15 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 16 | Included in the recommendations is for a two day training course , costing fifty thousand for two thousand places it 's excellent except we 're told in the report that we ca n't get people on courses however good they is es especially among , er , small companies . |
| 17 | That 's despite the(£766,000) seven hundred and sixty six thousand pounds they made on the transfer market last season , after parting with Paul Simpson to Derby , and Lee Nogan to Watford . |
| 18 | But while one kept her talking , the other stole the five thousand pounds she had hidden in her wardrobe . |
| 19 | Forty thousand pounds he had paid for it , a sum which now seemed laughably small , but which in those days had been a vast amount to pay for a private house , even in such a prime position . |
| 20 | The thought of the twenty-five thousand pounds he had pledged in the belief that he was getting a skilled crew left her too daunted to frame a suitably crushing reply . |
| 21 | Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach . |
| 22 | ‘ Naturally , I demand your written undertaking that the eighteen months ’ hard labour I have agreed to do here cancels out , fully and forever , the three and a half thousand pounds I owe you . ’ |
| 23 | If I 'd been buying my fist laser today , the poor benighted soul would be less likely to endure a coronary , since , for less than one thousand pounds I could nip out and buy a very nicely specified machine . |
| 24 | Erm resolution eight er , set out in the notice of the meeting to increase the aggregate annual sum available for directors ' fees to two hundred and fifty thousand pounds I put the resolution to the meeting those in favour any against I declare the resolution carried as an ordinary re resolution . |
| 25 | Lot number ninety four showing here on my left there 's there you are showing for you Lot number ninety four and I have two thousand offered for them , at two thousand pounds I 'm bid , at two thousand two hundred , four hundred , two thousand four , two thousand six two thousand eight , three thousand three thousand two hundred , three thousand five three thousand eight four thousand , four thousand two hundred four thousand five hundred at four thousand five hundred , four thousand eight hundred five thousand pounds five thousand five hundred six thousand six thousand seven thousand to my left and selling for seven thousand pounds , anybody else ? |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | On my daughter 's wedding day ten thousand pounds I 'll give away . |
| 28 | Britain 's smallest house is for sale at one and a half thousand pounds I 'll buy it |
| 29 | It is thought that there might , it might have remained in the hands of some diplomats who were transferring it , and there were two of these issues , there is one in a private collection at present , so this is a second one , and number eight which is coming out for sale , but the number seven did change hands er a couple of years ago , so at about fifty five thousand pounds I believe . |
| 30 | Lot a hundred and thirty tortoiseshell box now showing , Lot a hundred and thirty and I have four hundred offered for this one , four twenty , fifty , four eighty , five hundred , and fifty six hundred and fifty , seven hundred and fifty and fifty nine hundred at nine hundred pounds fifty , one thousand one hundred two hundred one thousand three hundred four hundred , five hundred , six hundred , seven hundred , eight hundred , nine hundred , two thousand , two hundred two thousand four hundred two thousand six hundred two thousand eight hundred , three thousand three thousand pounds it 's your bid at three thousand any advance on three thousand pounds , are you all done then at three thousand pounds ? |