Example sentences of "a thousand [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been over a thousand acts of piracy in the past ten years . |
| 2 | The paintwork was black , the walls covered in silver foil ; each of a line of doorways blazed with about a thousand watts of brilliance and there was a smell of greasepaint and cleansing cream that she had n't encountered since having a couple of bit parts in school plays . |
| 3 | He is almost immobile though his eyes express a thousand shades of mood . |
| 4 | Closer , on the other side , he could see the Grampians , a tapestry of a thousand shades of green . |
| 5 | There was a pressing , gently swaying wall of vegetation in a thousand shades of green . |
| 6 | They stepped through , into another world ; a world of ancient delights , of strict order made to seem like casual occurrence , of a thousand shades of green contrasted against the grey of stone , the white of walls , the red of tile . |
| 7 | Now of course , ‘ Racehorses of 1990 ’ is the bible of the racing man , it 's over a thousand pages in total , there are pen portraits of all the eight thousand horses that ran on the flat in England in 1990 , and lot 's more as well . |
| 8 | ‘ If there were a thousand Departments of Defence in Canada or elsewhere , instead of one , these would still not compete for citizens , because citizens are not their customers ; politicians are ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe 1982 , p. 91 ) . |
| 9 | But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction . |
| 10 | Erm so I do n't think that one 's achievable erm I think what this amounts to is that erm there are two cuts that we do n't agree with er there 's a vast on reserves we do n't agree with but we managed to put forward a thousand pounds for education at the same time erm i this does strike me as a budget of a party which it knows has no prospect of any sort of responsibility in this council for a long time to come . |
| 11 | A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty . |
| 12 | I ca n't imagine I can only say that from my knowledge of Herefordshire as a Herefordian myself , I ca n't imagine for the life of me that there are seven thousand people locally who could remotely afford a thousand pounds per share . |
| 13 | They estimated that stress costs a thousand pounds per employee per year to businesses . |
| 14 | It 's costing them a thousand pounds per employee per year . |
| 15 | We get virtually no grant per charge payer , about a hundred and thirty pounds , Westminster gets very nearly a thousand pounds per charge payer . |
| 16 | About period ten and correct me if I 'm wrong Andrew I was told it would be about a thousand , roughly a thousand pounds per fee earning employee . |
| 17 | They held their victims hostage for half an hour before making off with twenty thousand pounds worth of gold and a thousand pounds in cash . |
| 18 | He informed Wilner that he had calculated the energy that would be released and it was over a million kilojoules , equivalent to a thousand grams of dynamite . |
| 19 | But when the make do and mend clubs were told that even worn out soft collars and shirt cuffs would make maps for tank commanders , they responded well and over a thousand tons of rag was collected between nineteen forty two and nineteen forty three . |
| 20 | A single pound of uranium , it was claimed , could produce the same energy as a thousand tons of coal , whilst a hundred tons of uranium could provide all the electricity that the country could possibly need . |
| 21 | I had over a thousand letters of congratulation . |
| 22 | Two-up and with half fuel , we briefly was over a thousand feet per minute of the VSI before I had to throttle back to slide into position behind the struggling Cessna 150 camera ship . |
| 23 | That dried up river-bed , which was out of sight over the ridge and down a thousand feet of shingle , was rich with palm-trees , and with villages . |
| 24 | A thousand feet above sea level and defenceless against extremes of weather , it is a wilderness where nobody would choose to live . |
| 25 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 26 | Then there there was about a thousand rounds of tonnite in the gun room in the magazine . |
| 27 | He had a thousand metres of nylon fishing-line on the marlin rod lashed to the port stay , three hundred kilos breaking-strain . |
| 28 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 29 | Mark you , if the atmosphere at the venue is good , you can expand the outreach of your message a thousand times by television broadcast or closed circuit television relays to other venues . |
| 30 | into a thousand flakes of light , |