Example sentences of "the two thousand [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from anything else she was unemployed and they needed the two thousand pounds prize money . |
| 2 | The Dow Jones opened thirty points lower in reaction to rising oil prices which called London , caused London to move below the two thousand level . |
| 3 | U K market tried on several occasions to break through and remain above the two thousand level today , but confidence remains low and the Footsie one hundred index was unable to find support . |
| 4 | With little money in his pocket , and in fear for his life in those troubled times , he crossed the two thousand miles to the east well clear of the main highways and the great railways . |
| 5 | The eastern travels of Herodotus , who moved freely across the two thousand miles separating Babylon from Cyrene , were made possible by Persian indulgence and protection , in much the way that the evangelism of St Paul was facilitated by the Roman Peace . |
| 6 | On hearing this , the brothers ran the two thousand meters back to the start of their rows and began visiting each tree in turn again to empty the cups into their carrying cans . |
| 7 | In April 1970 Romola Nijinsky , widow of great Vaslav , saw the horse win the Two Thousand Guineas . |
| 8 | He had apparently been a most unlucky loser of the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket , when the judge Charles Robinson had called Louvois the winner despite the conviction of most people present that Craganour , finishing on the other side of the course from his rival , had held on . |
| 9 | There is good photographic evidence to suggest that Day Comet did in fact finish third , but the Epsom judge that day was the same Charles Robinson who had controversially denied Craganour the Two Thousand Guineas , and he placed Day Comet fifth . |
| 10 | Whether personal acrimony stimulated Loder can only be surmise , but it is certainly likely that Bill Saxby , jocked off Craganour after the Two Thousand Guineas , would not be bending over backwards to support that horse 's cause in the enquiry in which , as rider of Louvois , he was called to give evidence . |
| 11 | Aureole , despite attracting all that monarchist money , was a 9–1 shot , with the Two Thousand Guineas winner Nearula at 10–1 . |
| 12 | He had won three of his four races as a two-year-old , including the Grand Criterium at Longchamp , and as a three-year-old had taken the Two Thousand Guineas Trial at Ascot before beating Petingo and Jimmy Reppin in the Two Thousand Guineas itself and then producing a telling burst of speed to win the Derby from Connaught . |
| 13 | He had won three of his four races as a two-year-old , including the Grand Criterium at Longchamp , and as a three-year-old had taken the Two Thousand Guineas Trial at Ascot before beating Petingo and Jimmy Reppin in the Two Thousand Guineas itself and then producing a telling burst of speed to win the Derby from Connaught . |
| 14 | He won the Two Thousand Guineas on Shotover for John Porter of Kingsclere in 1882 and on Shotover he won his only Derby , also in 1882 . |
| 15 | He was closely associated with James Ryan 's stables at Newmarket , and for Ryan he won the Two Thousand Guineas on Mr Douglas Baird 's Enterprise in 1887 , and on Enthusiast in 1889 . |
| 16 | I have my breakfast to cook and today 's the day of the Two Thousand Guineas , I ca n't keep my mind on everything at the one time . " |
| 17 | The form for the Two Thousand Guineas kept them going . |
| 18 | And like , did you hear about that unexploded bomb , in the Second World War , the two thousand pound bomb on the |
| 19 | In the old days it had taken six horses to haul a vehicle the two thousand yards from the bottom of the brae to its top . |
| 20 | There 's , they pointed out to me that the two thousand percent increase in prescription charges |