Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a thousand [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tank filled with a thousand locusts and five scorpions is intriguing visitors to a museum . |
| 2 | Here the land rises to a thousand feet or more above sea level . |
| 3 | Then there came it think it was the gearbox or something went on the gar , you know , because I tow a caravan , and the car just would n't pull the caravan , and it was going to cost over a thousand pounds and that like . |
| 4 | Where the countryside is more hospitable , this can be left to a thousand feet or so . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | The Australian desert , for example , is structurally an ancient worn-down plateau of crystalline and ancient sedimentary rocks , the more resistant of which rise to a thousand metres or more ( a few thousand feet ) above the general surface level . |