Example sentences of "[num] thousand [noun] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989 , 151 thousand divorces were granted to couples in England and Wales , a rate of 12.7 per thousand marriages . |
| 2 | The steam rally at Upton runs over the weekend , and forty thousand visitors are expected to come and see the vintage traction engines , old time fairground and other attractions.And they 'll also be able to admire the fastest steamroller in the west . |
| 3 | The losses of ( £440,000 ) four hundred and forty thousand pounds are revealed in the club 's annual report to shareholders . |
| 4 | Videos worth around forty thousand pounds were seized from a mobile home rental business and a number of vehicles . |
| 5 | In that month , forty thousand pounds was paid into Andrew Livesey 's capital account , and the loan repaid out of it . ’ |
| 6 | Equipment worth forty thousand pounds was stolen last year and car theft is once again a major problem . |
| 7 | Import figures for radio sets showed that the audience was growing very rapidly : during 1954 and 1955 forty thousand sets were imported . |
| 8 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 9 | In nineteen ninety one , six thousand workplaces were found to be underpaying one or more workers . |
| 10 | Six thousand civilians are reported to have fled Zvornik . |
| 11 | One hundred and ninety thousand people are injured in accidents at work every year — a figure that appalls health and safety campaigners . |
| 12 | Three thousand members were added in a year . |
| 13 | For the previous ten months London and provincial cities had been bombed night after night ( on 10 May , three thousand Londoners were killed in the raids ) ; although the worst of the blitz was now over , no one knew it then , and at this perilous juncture in the war Eliot had been anxiously writing against time . |
| 14 | More than three thousand bottles were sold , including ( 772 ) seven hundred and seventy-two magnums . |
| 15 | It does n't supersede that in any way , and obviously if people do run into problems I mean normally a major problem in the first three months or three thousand miles is taken back to the dealer anyway . |
| 16 | His library of three thousand volumes was dispersed in 1675 and the whereabouts of some 350 are known . |
| 17 | I think there is a tendency erm for local authority planners to have horizons set by the end date of the current plan period , and work , try and work in that , sort of around the real world I think , where nothing happens , or nothing is conceivable , beyond that time period , erm , this particular approach , er does not work in the case of new settlements , there is no need when having established your design size for a new settlement that it necessarily all has to be built within current plan period , and I think this sort of approach is recognized in Cambridgeshire where , in case of the A forty five new settlement , a view was taken at an early stage that a new settlement of three thousand dwellings was needed to meet long term development needs in Cambridgeshire , an area where the planning issues and problems where very similar to those of York , and the approved structure plan in policy proposed that new settlement to be designated as three thousand , of which two thousand portion would be built within the current plan period , so it seems to me that the the question of size need not be an impediment to erm designation of a new settlement if the existing requirement and need are adjudged not to require the sort of new settlement size that we are creating . |
| 18 | THREE thousand Moslems were massacred in two Bosnian concentration camps , US officials revealed yesterday . |
| 19 | Sales continued to rise , its price being held down so that by 1953 , fifty thousand copies were sold each month . |
| 20 | As I understand it , nearly a hundred and fifty thousand pound is allocated each year to the G M B. |
| 21 | An armada of small private boats and a flotilla of naval vessels sailed to the rescue ; more than three hundred and fifty thousand men were saved , men who were able to return to the battle against Hitler 's armies in Europe and Africa . |
| 22 | A hundred and fifty thousand people are expected to attend a spectacular music festival over the weekend . |
| 23 | The estate agent , Stephanie Slater , has been released by her kidnapper after a ransom of one hundred and seventy-five thousand pounds was paid . |
| 24 | Bowlby 's report was abridged and published as a paperback ( 1953 ) , thus becoming widely available to the lay public ; in the year of publication and the five years following , more than seventy-five thousand copies were sold , and nearly as many in the next five years : an exceptional sale in Britain for a book not intended as a baby book for parents . |
| 25 | Cash , postal orders and documents worth more eight thousand pounds were stolen . |
| 26 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 27 | Eight thousand miners were known to be in Yanomami territory in 1989 , when they constructed a hundred airstrips to ferry in fuel , food and mining equipment . |
| 28 | In the 1960s , a continuous tree-ring sequence stretching back some eight thousand years was established by Wesley Ferguson , an American dendrochronologist . |
| 29 | It 's part of his British tour in May and sixty thousand fans are expected to cram in to watch him . |
| 30 | erm first of all we have had a post-War baby boom , a small one , and then a big one in the late fifties to the late seventies , peaking in nineteen sixty four , when in nineteen sixty four — I forget the figure — about nine hundred and sixty thousand babies were born in Great Britain . |