Example sentences of "of two thousand [noun] " in BNC.

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1 we 're well into erm I suppose we must be approaching somewhere in the region of two thousand surgeries out of fifteen thousand that are available to us .
2 A recent survey carried out by Labour Research shows that out of two thousand workplaces studied , there was a marked decline in unionization .
3 It had taken three days for the anarchy of two thousand Zaïrois to transform themselves into an organised travelling market .
4 Other missions joined in : from 1910 onwards the German protestant Mission produced Pwani na Bara ( ‘ The Coast and Hinterland ’ ) , which by the outbreak of the First World War had reached a modest monthly circulation of two thousand copies .
5 What I was Pat is five thousand words is really too bit a bite you know if you really want people to criticism off it , you wan na break it down into sort of two thousand word chapters really .
6 just by way of comparison for rough guidance that there is a regulation or or something like that which says , if I remember rightly , that erm er payments must not be made for either services or goods not supplied above a figure of two thousand pounds without er being taken to committee first .
7 Erm the overall picture as you can see in June is that we revised the budget to show at this moment if this trend continues a deficit of two thousand pounds .
8 In a test case of 1887 the Home Office ruled that vigilance associations could not recover their costs for prosecutions from government funds.95 Out of the NVA 's annual income of two thousand pounds , half was spent on legal work .
9 To take child care for instance , we can suddenly get two or three ah admissions to secure units at a cost of two thousand pounds a week and that 's er you know a hundred thousand a year per child so we can really there are other votes that can , can absorb that sort of money .
10 Meanwhile , a reward of two thousand pounds has been offered for information .
11 A twelve year old young offender from Cheltenham is currently a resident at the Birmingham unit — at a cost of two thousand pounds a week .
12 Well we we ca n't say o overall but we started in a very small way but on average Dennis we raise in the region of two thousand pounds a year .
13 Work has started on cutting back a group of two thousand year old lime trees at one of the country 's oldest arboretums .
14 Our information and intelligent unit receives an average of two thousand letters and over four thousand phone calls each year , as well as countless visitors to the library , many from overseas .
15 On behalf of this group I would like to present to the Council a petition containing in excess of two thousand signatures from people throughout the metropolitan district who object to the originally reported suggestion that Metropolitan Council are proposing to make byelaws requiring that all dogs should be kept on leads at all times in all public places .
16 Two lots of two thousand pound .
17 The fieldwork is conducted monthly on a quota sample of two thousand individuals selected to be representative of the adult population of Great Britain ; more details about opinion polling companies and their methods are given in the appendix to this chapter .
18 ‘ Going out in front of two thousand kids like that was difficult for her and she was very nervous about it .
19 Now , yes I mean i i in , in terms of two thousand calories a day it , it s it seems to be six hundred and fifty , seven hundred calories , er seven hundred , right , now th th there are those who argue the hundred and fifty is starvation level .
20 A choir is celebrating being chosen to perform in front of two thousand people at a national rally .
21 Among the cities of the north of Italy , Verona is the supreme revelation of an extraordinary continuity amid the many changes of two thousand years .
22 Jesus and the world of the New Testament continued to be addressed by professional historians and researchers who , with increasing rigour and fresh evidence at their disposal , sought to establish the facts surrounding that enigmatic individual of two thousand years ago .
23 As we have said , much is known today about the world in which Jesus lived , the Palestine of two thousand years ago .
24 Even more dangerous is it when we insist that a man of two thousand years ago meant what we mean in so contentiously abstract a sphere as religious faith .
25 If the option to renew is included in the terms of the new lease , the lease may be treated as a perpetually renewable lease taking effect as a term of two thousand years ( Parkus v Greenwood [ 1950 ] Ch 644 ; Caerphilly Concrete Products Ltd v Owen [ 1972 ] 1 WLR 372 ; Law of Property Act 1922 , s145 and Sched 15 ) .
26 When we get to the jobs erm side of it the jobs I I I 'm accused outside this afternoon of of putting in jeopardy one thousand something jobs erm , this authority got rid of seven hundred jobs , education jobs er only a few months ago and there 's many more , something on the region of two thousand jobs will be lost in this authority without a protest .
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