Example sentences of "[det] [prep] a thousand [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The architecture is that of a thousand prep-schools ; just as at a boarding school , authority seems at the same time ludicrous , arbitrary , and deadly serious . |
| 2 | Under Mary , the Crown set up a sliding scale of military liability , so that poorer members of the community were obliged to supply a suit of armour , spear and bow and arrow , while those worth a thousand pounds or more were expected to provide sixteen horses , sixty suits of armour , fifty helmets , forty pikes , thirty long-bows , twenty bills , and twenty arquebuses . |
| 3 | Eight hundred eight fifty nine hundred nine fifty one thousand one thousand pounds standing now on my right , any more at a thousand pounds , are you all done , it 's up there and I 'll sell at one thousand pounds . |
| 4 | ( I live in a town which has stayed the same for a thousand years beyond skirt-lengths and cars . ) |
| 5 | The use of a mouse with its linked screen pointer to select programs , copy disks and carry out any of a thousand functions is now part and parcel of everyday computer life . |
| 6 | Any of a thousand princes who had crawled away from the fire to shed their blood and start a legend … |
| 7 | ‘ It 'll all be the same in a thousand years . ’ |