Example sentences of "[prep] a thousand [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Closer , on the other side , he could see the Grampians , a tapestry of a thousand shades of green . |
| 2 | They stepped through , into another world ; a world of ancient delights , of strict order made to seem like casual occurrence , of a thousand shades of green contrasted against the grey of stone , the white of walls , the red of tile . |
| 3 | ‘ Read My Lips ’ , released under the name of A Thousand Points Of Light , highlights Bush switching political positions and contradicting himself . |
| 4 | In oriental rugs , every knot — which corresponds to two individual strands of pile — is tied by hand , and a skilled weaver can tie something in the region of a thousand knots per hour . |
| 5 | Others want it to become a museum , preserving forever a taste of a thousand years of incarceration |
| 6 | But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction . |
| 7 | His legs were impaled with a thousand needles of pine and hemlock ; hemlock cones and crabapple were strapped to his waist . |
| 8 | into a thousand flakes of light , |
| 9 | The glow from a thousand points of light seems less reliable than that from the lightbulbs of a well-financed bureaucracy . |
| 10 | A writer called Thomas Carlyle described it in 1824 as ‘ A frightful scene … a dense cloud of pestilential smoke hangs over it forever … and at night the whole region becomes like a volcano spitting fire from a thousand tubes of brick . ’ |
| 11 | There was a pressing , gently swaying wall of vegetation in a thousand shades of green . |
| 12 | In the unblinking black eyes were a thousand upon a thousand years of survival . |
| 13 | 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 . |