Example sentences of "a thousand [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Star of jazz clubs , the better class of fifties holiday camps , and a thousand barmitzvah bandstands . |
| 2 | At the departmental level we might have ten a hundred possibly a thousand users but when we go enterprise-wide there may be thousands or many tens of thousands of users . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | on a victim of a thousand jokes and petty crimes |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In this way power and love might both be enjoyed , as we see them being enjoyed by the heroes of a thousand school stories . |
| 7 | Furthermore , a three-phase study of over a thousand school leavers in the Lothian region of Scotland found that , in marked contrast to alcohol and tobacco use , ‘ levels of illicit drug use were much higher amongst both males and females who were unemployed than amongst their peers who were working or were full-time students ’ ( Plant et al . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By nineteen-seventy , a thousand components were being squeezed onto a single chip . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers ' ( APIL ) database contains over a thousand experts who have been recommended by APIL members around the country . |
| 11 | There have been over a thousand acts of piracy in the past ten years . |
| 12 | There were more than a thousand roses arranged in his suite . |
| 13 | A thousand thoughts were jostling around inside my mind . |
| 14 | This passage , he said , ‘ deserved a thousand thoughts ’ . |
| 15 | Often when we meet together we are distracted by a thousand thoughts . |
| 16 | Now we 've distributed to over a thousand clubs . |
| 17 | If we want to work at a high level of stress , however , anywhere near the potential strength of glass for instance , we must be prepared to keep the surface free from even the most microscopic cracks for , if even one crack is allowed to exceed the Griffith length , which may be only about a thousand Ångströms , catastrophic failure will occur . |
| 18 | He longed to see him again , to talk about a thousand things . |
| 19 | A thousand things are hidden still |
| 20 | There are always a thousand things to do . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's a thousand things I want to ask you , Mr O'Dell . |
| 22 | Say I 'm too young , he was n't ever really serious , and — a thousand things . |
| 23 | The dresser was crammed with a thousand things beside plates , old envelopes and letters , mousetraps , rags , pipes and screws of black tobacco in papers , and every chair was heaped with clothing , shirts and coats and cloaks . |
| 24 | As a production , it is poignant and precise , with a thousand things to admire . |
| 25 | I mean what is the purpose of all this , bringing the cost of living down — I do n't know , a thousand things that politicians pride themselves on doing — it seems to me that they all should be taking second place to the lives that up and coming generations are going to live . |
| 26 | Butler herself presented a memorial to the Foreign Secretary , signed by a thousand women and calling for changes in the law , so that ‘ it should be impossible for any young girl to be deprived of her liberty by fraud or force ’ . |
| 27 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |
| 28 | As they stepped from the carriage a captain , three NNCOs and a thousand women wer waiting on the platform to welcome them . |
| 29 | So he had a thousand women |
| 30 | Substitute an inheritance for a fairy godmother , an ex-wife for the wicked witch and you 've got the basic plot of a thousand paperback romances . |