Example sentences of "[prep] a thousand [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was n't until Koussevitzky offered a commission of a thousand dollars from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation that Ben was seriously able to contemplate setting aside all the time that is required to write a full-scale opera . |
| 2 | There 's the stirring up-ya-boya numbers like ‘ Pied Piper ’ and ‘ Never Mind The Stranglers ’ , closing-time anthems for a thousand pubs over the coming months . |
| 3 | We were looking about four thousand pounds for for s for a thousand copies of the |
| 4 | ‘ For the option , ’ Howard explained to Felicity , walking up and down the terrace , frowning seriously , with the setting sun flashing in a thousand windows of the city behind him , ‘ they 're paying … 30.000,00 . |
| 5 | Less than one in a thousand members of the population belongs to this class . |
| 6 | He was speaking to a thousand students at the Oxford Union . |
| 7 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |