Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] thousand [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Sartre is reported to have said that he did not feel free without a thousand francs in his pocket ; this is clearly a freedom which can only be enjoyed by a few .
2 In the unblinking black eyes were a thousand upon a thousand years of survival .
3 For a man , this does not seem to be so much of a problem ; he can be one of a squadron of marching , identically dressed soldiers , or one of a thousand employees in a firm , and still know that he is special and unique .
4 The glory of the island must be one of the thousand miles of sandy shoreline which rings the island , acknowledged as some of the finest beachland in Asia .
5 Which MP claimed to be the first in a thousand generations of his family to have been to university ?
6 Less than one in a thousand members of the population belongs to this class .
7 ( I live in a town which has stayed the same for a thousand years beyond skirt-lengths and cars . )
8 Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software .
9 He informed Wilner that he had calculated the energy that would be released and it was over a million kilojoules , equivalent to a thousand grams of dynamite .
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