Example sentences of "about two thousand [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , that 's right , I mean the fact that agriculture tends to be perfectly com right , why there tends to be a lot of independent small producers is because there are no economies of scale , you know , apart from beyond , you know , a certain size of farm , you know , stud studies in the U K show that once you get , get beyond about two thousand hectares there are , there are significant dis-economies of scale , and although there are economies of scale up to that point , and that 's only in the case of very specialist types of production , by and large once you 've got a farm in excess of five hundred hectares , erm , you start to run into dis-economy , and mostly managerial dis-economies of scale . |
| 2 | Oh yes , we everybody knew of that of the slate we were making , you know cos erm we were making about two thousand duchess a day . |
| 3 | We 've about two thousand kilometres to go . |
| 4 | ‘ I ordered about two thousand boxes , ’ he recalled . |
| 5 | The way marking costs a very small amount indeed our previous was about two thousand pounds and I do n't think it 's worthwhile , this Committee in chasing two thousand pounds throughout the . |
| 6 | If you look at the particles inside the nucleus you have a proton , which is a positively charged particle , and it 's about two thousand times more massive than an electron , and you have also have another type of particle in there called a neutron , and a neutron is to all practical intents and purposes it 's just like a proton except that it has no charge , and so the whole mass of the atom is actually concentrated inside the nucleus . |
| 7 | Water power was first used to turn millstones about two thousand years ago , the earliest waterwheels being horizontal , fixed to the projecting lower end of the spindle . |
| 8 | To quote my rabbi : ‘ Masters and Johnson — what did they know about sex that the rabbis did n't know about two thousand years ago ? ’ |
| 9 | underlying the musical and , indeed the whole New Age Movement , are the astrological ages of man — each age lasting about two thousand years . |
| 10 | It covers about two thousand years of history , but most the miracles are clustered round a few persons and events : |
| 11 | It was about two thousand years ago and it was how many years before Christ . |
| 12 | In each of these mining ‘ towns ’ about two thousand people live and work . |
| 13 | About two thousand miles is it ? |
| 14 | Er take about two thousand gallons each . |
| 15 | About two thousand acres in all . |
| 16 | In terms of Easingwold , I have a client who owns about forty acres who would be delighted with that solution but erm , I do n't think that Easingwold could support that level of development , if we 're talking a around about two thousand dwellings , without very very substantial harm to its character and setting . |