Example sentences of "a half thousand [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They claim the poly 's eight and a half thousand students are packed to the rafters and standards are suffering |
| 2 | On the business side , it has been a huge success … home to two and a half thousand firms , one in ten of them from abroad … unemployment is below the national average … the high tech city has attracted high tech firms from Japan … bringing a new community and culture . |
| 3 | Tim said loudly , to quell her , ‘ We run six'n a half thousand lines in Pricewell 's . |
| 4 | A decade of it now , ten years at two and a half thousand pages a year . |
| 5 | The sixty people we have every night in the night shelter have no choice at all and nor to the five and a half thousand families on our housing waiting list . |
| 6 | They 're part of a four hundred-strong team whose task will be to keep two and a half thousand soldiers supplied with everything from food to clean clothing . |
| 7 | We would get back the two and a half thousand members the T & G poached in Liverpool City Council . |
| 8 | In the first a female employee received a potentially fatal electric shock of perhaps five and a half thousand volts while testing ovens for high voltage leakage . |
| 9 | The diameter is just over twelve and a half thousand kilometres . ’ |
| 10 | Tarvaras was just over twelve and a half thousand kilometres in diameter and the Simonova was orbiting approximately thirty-six thousand kilometres above the surface . |
| 11 | is approximately fifteen hundred kilometres two and a half thousand kilometres or three and a half thousand kilometres ? |
| 12 | is approximately fifteen hundred kilometres two and a half thousand kilometres or three and a half thousand kilometres ? |
| 13 | Planning has had some two and a half thousand letters of objection to it . |
| 14 | Mr Taylor 's considering his future — dividing his time between replying to three and a half thousand letters of support and nursing his mother , who , he revealed today , has suffered a stroke . |
| 15 | After the last erm Stansted Airport Consultative Committee , three month 's ago when we were presented with this press report that refers to four and a half thousand flights er over which period . |
| 16 | In that time they carried two and a half thousand tonnes of food and medical supplies saving countless lives . |
| 17 | And they had a strap and they used to carry all the weight on their foreheads and on , and through their necks , and they used to climb , we went up to seventeen and a half thousand feet , and they climbed up with all these bags and they cooked for us and they got river water for us and sometimes they had to walk a kilometre to the river to go and get the water and then carry it back again er with the band around their heads and so initially it seemed quite difficult to accept them doing this for you , but for them it was a job and erm it was probably the only sort of job that they could get . |
| 18 | The idea is to jump from a height of four and a half thousand feet to a tiny disc in the jump zone . |
| 19 | Then the balloons were off rising above Herefordshire to eleven and a half thousand feet instead of the planned ten and a half thousand . |
| 20 | We 're giving two and a half thousand doctors computers on their desk , where they can tap in to the computer anything which happens to the patient which they suspect might be related to the medicine and also put in to the computer , of course , the medicines which the patient is taking , so that these records , covering about five million patients altogether , will be all centrally brought together in order to give very early warning of any harm which medicines are doing , so that 's a very important development . |
| 21 | ‘ It sold two and a half thousand copies very quickly and Lime had to get more pressed . |
| 22 | The Government report reveals that in ninteen ninety alone , three and a half thousand birds were dead by the time they 'd arrived in Britain . |
| 23 | Just before Christmas , a man had been seized at gunpoint and made to drive a van loaded with three and a half thousand pounds of explosives into Annaghmartin ; the Christmas before , two soldiers had been shot dead at the Derry checkpoint , next door . |
| 24 | means I 've got earn three and a half thousand pounds f five thousand pounds erm at some point to pay |
| 25 | and wondering how we can do a job for two thousand four hundred and fifty , when according to the experts in the field it was gon na cost fourteen and a half thousand pounds . |
| 26 | Three and a half thousand pounds was a nightmare figure . |
| 27 | ‘ That you should consider three and a half thousand pounds a lot of money ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ For three and a half thousand pounds ? ’ |
| 29 | One does not succeed in business , ’ he added with a dry smile , ‘ by treating three and a half thousand pounds as pocket-money . ’ |
| 30 | Probably he was unused to such directness from lowly individuals such as herself — individuals incapable of producing at short notice trifling sums like three and a half thousand pounds ! |