Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a thousand [noun pl] " 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 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 3 | The fund will provide grants for up to a thousand pounds for these organisations to spend on such training . |
| 4 | Some sites can go and order everything up to a thousand pounds . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But a litter of nine Chinese Shar-Pei puppies are expected to fetch up to a thousand pounds each . |
| 7 | But already they carry a price tag of up to a thousand pounds each . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We do actually cover up to a thousand pounds parts and labour with a wide range of cover across the board . |
| 10 | Yes , but if you move on to that to the mainstream of our policies , which is five and six , that covers up to a thousand pounds parts and labour . |
| 11 | Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established . |
| 12 | Up to a thousand kilos . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Out of a thousand cases reported in United States waters over a five-year period , only two resulted in death . |
| 15 | Out of a thousand cities housing billions … |
| 16 | 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 . |