Example sentences of "[vb pp] in a thousand [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her face cracked in a thousand lines when she smiled . |
| 2 | The window was made of sugar glass , the substance adopted in a thousand movies to look like the real thing . |
| 3 | Principles are like the moon that can be reflected in a thousand pools — if we choose to look in the right direction into a pool . |
| 4 | A miser 's body lies cut in a thousand places by a huge array of coins with sharpened edges . |
| 5 | The hurricane , the flood or the tsunami may do more in an hour or a day than the ordinary processes of nature have achieved in a thousand years . |