Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] thousand [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 2 | For example , what might apply erm on a one year old vehicle that 's done ten thousand miles , might not apply on a vehicle that 's done a hundred thousand miles and is ten years old . |
| 3 | Er they say they 're not worked hard well I think they have they 've moved er moved a few thousand tons from there and erm . |
| 4 | one man who 's already in the money … thankfully … is Olympic rower Steve Redgrave from Buckinghamshire … he 's got a forty thousand pounds sponsorship deal with the Port of London to help him train for the next Olympics … solid gold … |
| 5 | But what we 're proposing here essentially , is to say we 've got a seventy thousand pound contingency not specifically allocated , we will reduce that down to thirty thousand , but within that thirty thousand we will have to deal with requests we get to increase grants to people who 're already in receipt of grant support , and also we 've also found it extremely helpful to have a small reserve so that when a body comes along and says I would do this for you , but I do need a small grant in order to do it , and you 're effectively buying a hundred thousand pounds worth of service for ten thousand pounds , that you have actually got a ten thousand pounds to put it in , rather than funding everyone , so that 's basically the policy behind it Chair . |
| 6 | It had sold a few thousand copies in the years before the 1976 court case : within three weeks of its acquittal 600,000 copies were purchased by an avid public . |
| 7 | Mrs Bloomer has offered a one thousand pounds reward for the return of the items stolen . |
| 8 | Section five point two , makes reference to the additional a hundred and ten thousand pounds that was approved in October for erm , er expected budget pressures , in this particular area , and in fact , we have had an eleven thousand pounds refund refund from the Severn Trent er Flood Defence Committee , so there 's only ninety- nine thousand pounds , er the revised estimate is ninety-nine thousand above the original estimate . |
| 9 | Yes , I see , yes er , I said , I could have said if you had been given a hundred thousand pounds how , or fifty thousand pounds how would you invest it ? |
| 10 | Erm , it 's again recognized in the S S As that it is more social factors that impact on the need to spend on children 's services , and therefore things like single parent families , the level of family income and these tend to have a greater impact , but it would be foolish to assume that with a higher child population you are not going to get more demands on children 's services , and therefore we have provided a fifty thousand pounds ' provision within that to take care of problems . |
| 11 | But I 'm spun of stronger metal than that : when you 've spent a few thousand years wrestling with magicians determined to enslave you and entire religions devoted to your destruction , you develop ways of bouncing back . |
| 12 | But then , perhaps all chicks get to look like that , when they 've been raped a few thousand times . |