Example sentences of "in a thousand [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For the option , ’ Howard explained to Felicity , walking up and down the terrace , frowning seriously , with the setting sun flashing in a thousand windows of the city behind him , ‘ they 're paying … 30.000,00 . |
| 2 | Less than one in a thousand members of the population belongs to this class . |
| 3 | Which MP claimed to be the first in a thousand generations of his family to have been to university ? |
| 4 | There was a pressing , gently swaying wall of vegetation in a thousand shades of green . |
| 5 | A miser 's body lies cut in a thousand places by a huge array of coins with sharpened edges . |