Example sentences of "[noun sg] for a thousand [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 2 | In Salah would be the biggest town for a thousand miles . |
| 3 | Bards would sing of this moment for a thousand years . |
| 4 | The murals of Diego Rivera for the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico City are admitted by the critic Antonio Rodriguez not to be all of an equally high standard , ‘ but what poet could keep up the same lyrical flow for a thousand verses ? |
| 5 | God set this Iain Og on the hot hob of hell for a thousand years — but not before I catch him ! ’ |
| 6 | It was a wind that might have swept the fields of mortality for a thousand centuries . |
| 7 | It contained a platinum US Approach card , a brick of travellers " cheques , and a cash-facility authorization at a Fifth Avenue bank for a thousand dollars a day , if needed . |
| 8 | The Annamese were part of the Chinese empire for a thousand years , Paul , remember . |
| 9 | Beyond the turn of the century , however , the forecast implies a rapid warming into conditions unseen on Earth for a thousand years or more , heralding a super dustbowl era far worse than the 1930s across the Great Plains of North America . |
| 10 | A Nordic superrace will shortly descend from the cosmic iceclouds ; they will rule the earth for a thousand years . |
| 11 | It has been in my family for a thousand years . |