Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] thousand [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It cost eighty thousand pounds . |
| 2 | We 've a case where it cost ten thousand pounds . |
| 3 | Right as far as that writing see if I want you to remind me that 's where we 're up to next lesson and I shall give you a few more notes on that to explain about how it happens ten thousand times . |
| 4 | One local MP says it 's outrageous that it costs two thousand pounds a week to keep the boy at the centre . |
| 5 | ‘ They reckon it killed sixteen thousand people . ’ |
| 6 | It takes five thousand nuts to make a ton of copra , which sells at twenty-four pounds a ton ; and that in turn will only produce about a third of a ton of hair shampoo . |
| 7 | It employs six thousand people nationwide , two hundred at the headquarters in Milton Keynes , others at Parcelforce depots like Bicester in Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | Overlooking both , as it overlooked the whole valley of Cuzco , were the awesome ramparts of Sacsayhuaman , the teeth of the puma which legend has it cost thirty thousand lives to build . |