Example sentences of "[prep] a thousand [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Closer , on the other side , he could see the Grampians , a tapestry of a thousand shades of green . |
| 2 | They stepped through , into another world ; a world of ancient delights , of strict order made to seem like casual occurrence , of a thousand shades of green contrasted against the grey of stone , the white of walls , the red of tile . |
| 3 | ‘ Read My Lips ’ , released under the name of A Thousand Points Of Light , highlights Bush switching political positions and contradicting himself . |
| 4 | I ca n't think of a thousand acres of natural activity as a void . |
| 5 | Not even the dehumanizing process of Soviet medical training could eradicate the myths and legends of a thousand years of Russian Christianity . |
| 6 | Others want it to become a museum , preserving forever a taste of a thousand years of incarceration |
| 7 | We were looking about four thousand pounds for for s for a thousand copies of the |
| 8 | His legs were impaled with a thousand needles of pine and hemlock ; hemlock cones and crabapple were strapped to his waist . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | into a thousand flakes of light , |
| 11 | People who 've never even been within a thousand miles of Koraloona have heard of Mollie Green 's place . ’ |
| 12 | The glow from a thousand points of light seems less reliable than that from the lightbulbs of a well-financed bureaucracy . |
| 13 | A writer called Thomas Carlyle described it in 1824 as ‘ A frightful scene … a dense cloud of pestilential smoke hangs over it forever … and at night the whole region becomes like a volcano spitting fire from a thousand tubes of brick . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ For the option , ’ Howard explained to Felicity , walking up and down the terrace , frowning seriously , with the setting sun flashing in a thousand windows of the city behind him , ‘ they 're paying … 30.000,00 . |
| 15 | Less than one in a thousand members of the population belongs to this class . |
| 16 | Which MP claimed to be the first in a thousand generations of his family to have been to university ? |
| 17 | There was a pressing , gently swaying wall of vegetation in a thousand shades of green . |
| 18 | In the unblinking black eyes were a thousand upon a thousand years of survival . |
| 19 | He informed Wilner that he had calculated the energy that would be released and it was over a million kilojoules , equivalent to a thousand grams of dynamite . |
| 20 | For an instant its bright light glistened on a thousand shades of wet green leaves . |
| 21 | To split up a great State , created by a thousand years of historical development , means taking a big step backwards . |
| 22 | 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 . |