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 .
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