Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a thousand [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The fund will provide grants for up to a thousand pounds for these organisations to spend on such training . |
| 3 | It will also replace a rotten back door , under a scheme with the local district council which offers grants of up to a thousand pounds for such work for elderly people in the town . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established . |
| 6 | The busiest time is in summer , with up to a thousand covers for three meals a day , seven days a week , which means recruiting up to 20 extra staff . |
| 7 | And then the railway lines themselves , snaking out secretly and backwards and then suddenly fanning out into a thousand arteries of shining black steel leaping through London and beyond to the places you can only imagine , the lines pulsing her brain with the excitement of where they 're going . |