Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a 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 | Which MP claimed to be the first in a thousand generations of his family to have been to university ? |
| 5 | Less than one in a thousand members of the population belongs to this class . |
| 6 | ( I live in a town which has stayed the same for a thousand years beyond skirt-lengths and cars . ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |