Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] a thousand [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they peeled back the debris of centuries , complete houses and workshops emerged , still containing everyday tools , utensils and clothing from a civilisation buried for a thousand years . |
| 2 | And Hall himself , long and loose , with his body articulated into a thousand joints , shows how naturally this style comes to him . |
| 3 | ‘ How did I get here ? ’ she asked , looking around a shabby but pleasant room , feeling so frail that she might have been made of china , china broken into a thousand pieces . |
| 4 | The window was made of sugar glass , the substance adopted in a thousand movies to look like the real thing . |
| 5 | In many ways An Area of Darkness pre-empts Naipaul 's later work , India : A Wounded Civilization — about the devastation wrought by a thousand years of foreign rule . |
| 6 | A tank filled with a thousand locusts and five scorpions is intriguing visitors to a museum . |
| 7 | Her face cracked in a thousand lines when she smiled . |