Example sentences of "to a thousand [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was speaking to a thousand students at the Oxford Union . |
| 2 | The fund will provide grants for up to a thousand pounds for these organisations to spend on such training . |
| 3 | It will also replace a rotten back door , under a scheme with the local district council which offers grants of up to a thousand pounds for such work for elderly people in the town . |
| 4 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 5 | Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The busiest time is in summer , with up to a thousand covers for three meals a day , seven days a week , which means recruiting up to 20 extra staff . |
| 8 | Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established . |