Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] thousand [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | These have radii of a few thousand miles and densities of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
4 | 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 . |
5 | In the few thousand years that civilized man has lived on Earth , there has been an extremely large number of volcanic eruptions . |