Example sentences of "are [adv] a thousand " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a final statistic captures even more eloquently the nature of the country : in all its million square miles , there are only a thousand miles of paved roads . |
| 2 | There are always a thousand things to do . |
| 3 | There are nearly a thousand references , spanning the literature from palaeontology to molecular biology , much of it recent , but with good coverage of the eighteen and nineteenth centuries ( 12 references for ! ) and , perhaps most valuable , a survey of the extensive but scattered literature of the twentieth century . |
| 4 | The quiteron works in a similar way , although the energy gaps involved are about a thousand time smaller than for semiconductors — several milli-electronvolts ( take out the word electron to arrive at the corresponding driving voltages ) , This difference is behind the quiteron 's big advantage : it dissipates far less power than the conventional device . |
| 5 | I think it 's a hundred places , and there are about a thousand something sa |
| 6 | Their slogan says ‘ unique by a thousand miles ’ and indeed they are around a thousand miles ( 1600 kilometres ) from the coast of Africa . |
| 7 | At the undergraduate level , there are around a thousand students following degree programmes in the School . |
| 8 | Cotswolds are a rare breed success story , as twenty years ago they were almost extinct.Now there are around a thousand Cotswold ewes , and the future of the breed is assured . |
| 9 | ‘ The northern mountains , ’ Bicker said , ignoring Murtach 's comment , ‘ are almost a thousand miles away . |
| 10 | There are almost a thousand set of bones in all . |
| 11 | There are over a thousand different shapes of carving chisels and gouges . |
| 12 | In places these Lough Neagh clays are over a thousand feet thick . |
| 13 | I mean there are over a thousand people , sometimes two thousand people there , and in this erm complex organisation I think headmasters are very important people ; they 're responsible for developing a style of organisation which is , I think , very significant . |