Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a thousand [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And finishes off by saying , erm , our Youth Committee Chairman , Roland have a forward looking attitude to developing and improving youth for many years to come , for as many boys as possible , and we would like to apply for a grant for a thousand pound to cover the cost of providing these new kits for three teams . |
| 2 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 3 | I won a gold card worth a thousand pound |
| 4 | Peter Mackenzie proved unusually bullish and his deep voice would reverberate throughout the dealing floor with the force of a thousand rapids : " Hallo , sir . |
| 5 | Philip had opened the proceedings by again suggesting an exchange of conquests , but Richard opposed this , arguing that this would mean that he gave up lands , including the Quercy , which brought him an annual revenue of a thousand marks or more , in return for estates in Berry which , though they were fiefs belonging to Aquitaine , were in fact held by other lords and so were of very little direct financial benefit to him . |
| 6 | ‘ Where the gas seeped weakly over the rock , ten thousand or so miles from the blasted pits of volcanic ore that blazed with the light of a thousand suns , there I made my abhorred discovery … ’ ’ |
| 7 | He screwed his eyes shut , but it was as if his sight was being destroyed by the light of a thousand flares . |
| 8 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 9 | Now , I hope I 've got these facts right and I 'm sure that not , that Eileen may correct me that er we have er forty hundred pounds in the budget , budget for this er the erm South Wales congregation has , has kindly erm given us grant of a thousand pounds and I understand from the secretary of con , Cardiff congregation , and he 's also offered a thousand pounds I do n't know whether we 've got that yet ? |
| 10 | Two years later , in 1318 , the Scots captured Berwick after twenty years in English possession and then advanced southwards almost to Pontefract : while burgesses of Ripon escaped the sacking of their town by payment of a thousand marks , just a few miles away the monks of Fountains abbey were similarly purchasing mercy from the invaders . |
| 11 | The scheme relies on private money — in this case a donation of a thousand pounds from BT . |
| 12 | This year , Mary , vice-President , and I , together with Eddie and Derek , representing the Southern region , went to St Peter 's Centre , which is a day centre for people suffering from Alzheimer 's disease , towards the north of Portsmouth , to contribute our cheque of a thousand pounds , which is going towards the extension of the centre . |
| 13 | Battle of a Thousand Woes . |
| 14 | The nose-wheel is normally lifted at seventy knots to rotate at ninety , but because of the wind I held her down to 95 for a clean lift-off at a hundred after a run of a thousand yards or so . |
| 15 | Substitute an inheritance for a fairy godmother , an ex-wife for the wicked witch and you 've got the basic plot of a thousand paperback romances . |
| 16 | In the Asturias a mob of a thousand peasants and university students , after pillaging the arsenal of its rifles , made an end of the hesitations of the Audiencia and the constituted authorities , who were afraid to defy Murat ; the general assembly of the province , which happened to be holding one of its triennial meetings , took the leadership of the insurrection , and , on 25 May , declared war on Napoleon . |
| 17 | Today , Orpington , home of a thousand Fleet Street sub-editors , is represented for the Conservatives by John Horam . |
| 18 | Joyce 's family is numbered with the grains of sand in a thousand egg-timers . |
| 19 | In Salah would be the biggest town for a thousand miles . |
| 20 | Bards would sing of this moment for a thousand years . |
| 21 | The first part of the manuscript , under an early title ‘ Too late beloved ’ , was rejected as unsuitable by Tillotson and Son — with whom a fee of a thousand guineas had already been agreed — by Murray and by Macmillan , before it was accepted in a revised form for serialisation in The Graphic . |
| 22 | Closer , on the other side , he could see the Grampians , a tapestry of a thousand shades of green . |
| 23 | The name , New Millennium , means the new period of a thousand years which will start in the year 2000–1 and it also suggests an era of peace and harmony . |
| 24 | In fourth-century-BC Athens it was possible to buy manuscripts reproduced by hand-copying at relatively low cost , and the scriptoria in which such copying was done — there is a reference in Pliny the Younger to an edition of a thousand copies — remained important through Roman to medieval times . |
| 25 | " If nothing has yet been settled with regard to Ald. Hallam 's gift of a thousand pounds , it seems to me well worth considering whether it would not be more advantageous to the School to endow a " Hallam Lectureship in Natural Science " than to found a scholarship . |
| 26 | He was a skilful lover : tender and gentle in the beginning , then powerful , persistent , rough almost — until , his passion rising in harmony with hers , the climax came like the bursting of a thousand stars , like the beginning and ending of the world . |
| 27 | Delacroix saw the Bedouin in that light , remarking that : ‘ They are closer to nature in a thousand ways , and so beauty has a share in everything they make . ’ |
| 28 | She flung aside her heavy bedroom curtains and pressed her face to the cold glass but there was nothing there , just the quiet , empty blackness which enveloped the families all over Cornwall who were turning the trencher in a thousand drawing-rooms . |
| 29 | ‘ In fact he increased the fee to a thousand dollars . ’ |
| 30 | He took as his text , ‘ Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself ’ ; and he gave Bible truth to a thousand people in the African township of Harare . |