Example sentences of "a few thousand [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're not talking about a few thousand pounds but millions , millions I shall be borrowing from various banking concerns who are willing to lend that money on the strength of my reputation . |
| 2 | Staggering And , after earning at the staggering rate of nearly $60 a second throughout this tournament , he said : ‘ I would rather win Wimbledon again and a few thousand pounds than this tournament and all this money . ’ |
| 3 | From government statistics ( Claus Moser ) and social theory ( Ernest Gellner ) to art history ( Ernst Gombrich ) and the Freudian legacy , a few thousand men and women born in the cities of Mitteleuropa in the first quarter of this century quickened the pulse of a smug and sluggish culture . |
| 4 | These have radii of a few thousand miles and densities of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 5 | If a star 's mass is less than the Chandrasekhar limit , it can eventually stop contracting and settle down to a possible final state as a " white dwarf " with a radius of a few thousand miles and a density of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 6 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |