Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] thousand [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was also an explicitly Christian spirit — unfortunate therefore for the four thousand Jews and for the tiny but now increasing numbers of Hindus , Buddhists , Muslims , and Taoists . |
| 2 | But the trouble with climate modification of the sort imposed by the greenhouse effect is that it does not move naturally to a new , warmer status quo which will remain undisturbed for the next thousand years or so . |
| 3 | These have radii of a few thousand miles and densities of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 4 | If a star 's mass is less than the Chandrasekhar limit , it can eventually stop contracting and settle down to a possible final state as a " white dwarf " with a radius of a few thousand miles and a density of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 5 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 6 | You 're not talking about a few thousand pounds but millions , millions I shall be borrowing from various banking concerns who are willing to lend that money on the strength of my reputation . |
| 7 | In the few thousand years that civilized man has lived on Earth , there has been an extremely large number of volcanic eruptions . |
| 8 | This is the music playing in a thousand thousand houses while we have our drinks and eat our meals and stand up and shout . |
| 9 | He did n't approve of Celtic influence on what he called " the pure springs of Anglo-Saxon democracy " , holding that most of what had gone wrong with Britain over the past thousand years or so was the fault of " Celtic individualism " . |
| 10 | Your spouse would have her own estate plus the fifty thousand pounds that you left her . |