Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] a thousand " in BNC.
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1 | The prices of alarms , as well , you 'd be quite surprised they do not range from a thousand . |
2 | We 're not dealing with a thousand items , we 're dealing with four hundred and fifty thousand items , and for anyone to go and collect that information on a larger scale , even sampling it would have been almost unthinkable . |
3 | We 're not dealing with a thousand items , we 're dealing with four hundred and fifty thousand items , and for anyone to go and collect that information on a larger scale even sampling it would have been almost unthinkable . |
4 | This new town , a product of modern civilization , had grown up near the ancient Egdon Woods , where the paths over the hills had not changed for a thousand years . |
5 | I ca n't think of a thousand acres of natural activity as a void . |