Example sentences of "about [art] thousand " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It 's about a thousand pounds . ’ |
| 32 | When I talked to him , he was engaged on a project with the Gambian musician Foday Mosa Suso , a man who has ‘ about a thousand years of history memorised in song ’ . |
| 33 | All the finds ( about a thousand ) were illustrated from beautiful drawings by his youngest daughter Agnes , then between thirteen and nineteen . |
| 34 | The paintwork was black , the walls covered in silver foil ; each of a line of doorways blazed with about a thousand watts of brilliance and there was a smell of greasepaint and cleansing cream that she had n't encountered since having a couple of bit parts in school plays . |
| 35 | Er at one time there was just over about a thousand people employed in Brothers . |
| 36 | When I was fifteen we rented a rough shoot of about a thousand acres on Stowe Hill , part of the Stanage estate ; Guy Rogers let us have it for a fiver . |
| 37 | Some thousands of searches were logged automatically , and about a thousand were studied in some detail . |
| 38 | This means it will take about a thousand million million million million years for the earth to run into the sun , so there 's no immediate cause for worry ! |
| 39 | If they were , say , a million times more common than this , then the nearest black hole to us would probably be at a distance of about a thousand million kilometers , or about as far away as Pluto , the farthest known planet . |
| 40 | This is about a thousand times the temperature at the center of the sun , but temperatures as high as this are reached in H-bomb explosions . |
| 41 | In 1974 Joël Scherk from Paris and John Schwarz from the California Institute of Technology published a paper in which they showed that string theory could describe the gravitational force , but only if the tension in the string were very much higher , about a thousand million million million million million million tons ( 1 with thirty-nine zeros after it ) . |
| 42 | It would therefore not be very surprising if the present generation of grand unified theories was wrong in claiming that nothing essentially new will happen between the electroweak unification energy of about 100 GeV and the grand unification energy of about a thousand million million GeV . |
| 43 | By 1790 the European navies numbered in all about 470 ships of the line ( the large vessels which formed the line of battle in important naval conflicts ) together with about a thousand frigates and a thousand smaller ships . |
| 44 | I was reading in the paper this morning , a chap , he 's a director of a big company in Birmingham , who was the world 's number one football fan , he used to spend about a thousand a year watching football , you know . |
| 45 | You are playing with a fire the temperature at the tip when it 's burning is approaching about a thousand degrees centigrade . |
| 46 | ‘ All this happened about a thousand years ago , ’ she said . |
| 47 | About a thousand feet , it says here . |
| 48 | From the late seventies , to the nineteen eighties or rather from the from the seventies , not just late seventies , to the nineteen eighties , it 's come down about a thousand broad terms , a thousand dwellings a year fewer being built . |
| 49 | Again , when I spoke to you during the interims , I was expecting redundancies during the year of , of er , about a thousand . |
| 50 | The public have written thirty letters , representing about a thousand people , living in all corners of have written and recommended refusal . |
| 51 | On the island of Luzon , the Agta people in the 1980s were down from about a thousand in 1936 to 609 . |
| 52 | But to a geologist it is about a thousand times shorter than he can ordinarily measure ! |
| 53 | Well I mean it 's going to sort of s start shooting up to round about a thousand pound then you 'll have to have a word with Tom . |
| 54 | About a thousand N.A.S.U.W.T members are due to walk out next Wednesday . |
| 55 | ‘ What I must do next season is get really , really fit and prove everybody wrong , which I have done about a thousand times . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ My mother was a very careful owner and only did about a thousand miles a year between the end of the war and 1962 . |
| 57 | No it 's four hundred gallons , it 's , it 's , it 's , they do n't like to take any more than that because of the , the weight of water , it 's quite heavy er although they have one special equipment here again one of these roll-on roll-off ones , which is a water tank equipment , and er it carries about a thousand gallons or two thousand gallons of water , er in a tank , water tank and that if you are very short of water will be sent on as well to boost up water supplies in a particular area , so erm that was another one of these pods that we , we designed and , and put on the run . |
| 58 | There would be about a thousand to do in a day . |
| 59 | Then there there was about a thousand rounds of tonnite in the gun room in the magazine . |
| 60 | The Sian area is an absolute treasure house of archaeological and historical relics — the seat of Chinese imperial government for about a thousand years up to 9th c . |