Example sentences of "[adv] a thousand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopkins advised against sending reclaimed prostitutes into domestic service because of the danger to middle-class sons : ‘ better a thousand times that this fearful social evil should be localized in certain spots , which we call dens , than by our hasty and injudicious benevolence it should be struck into the very bosom of our families . ’ |
| 2 | could use the same report cover by printing a s perhaps a thousand of those . |
| 3 | Perhaps a thousand times more evil . |
| 4 | So a thousand twelve hundred quid is the sort of is the sort of minimum figure you |
| 5 | Only a thousand pounds a week , yacht included . |
| 6 | Through one window he saw a bathroom , just like his own at home only a thousand times smaller . |
| 7 | I got to the printers with my Boy George piece and it was finally time to say , ‘ Look , this is only a thousand words long and I still have n't got to the interview . |
| 8 | Only a thousand people a year use it ; but it 's useful if she 's really decamped and you do n't know where she is . |
| 9 | By the middle of nineteen twenty five only a thousand members . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Of course we should n't have expected anything , but Mary and I would have felt rich with only a thousand pounds each , and St John would have been able to help so many more poor people ! ’ |
| 12 | There are three million companies in Britain of Which only a thousand employ more than a thousand employees . |
| 13 | It 's only a thousand pound . |
| 14 | That 's only a thousand ! |
| 15 | Anyway , I 've already cobbled together a thousand words on horror classics . |
| 16 | At first the Palace asked for just a thousand exclusive ties to be made . |
| 17 | I 'm in the Flying Fox and I 've just spent some time hovering at just a thousand feet over Bicester and the town centre looking good there . |
| 18 | Zack shrugged , picked one in the middle — approximately a thousand stones out of the 25,000 on the table . |
| 19 | There were approximately a thousand in each type of provision . |
| 20 | It 's approximately a thousand . |
| 21 | There are always a thousand things to do . |
| 22 | Just under a thousand of vines — but it 's some of the best land there is . |
| 23 | He gazed in unwilling fascination at the blazing , smoking plane , now directly abeam and at an altitude of under a thousand feet . |
| 24 | As Professor Duckham has pointed out , the combined mileage was not great until after 1790 ( up to then it was well under a thousand miles ) but in terms of strategic linking they were already beginning to turn the " golden key … to unlock the riches of the inland coalfields " . |
| 25 | ‘ It was for the end-title sequence , and Michael Mills liked to have too much film rather than not enough , so the camera was still turning over when Michael got to just under a thousand feet ! ’ |
| 26 | If it 's under a thousand pounds , you ca n't get the money back through funding , and the policy is void . |
| 27 | The path , here still a thousand feet below the top , becomes very rough as the gradient increases , the final scramble through a breach in the summit cliffs over the debris of erosion being sufficiently arduous to justify a prolonged rest when the flat top is at last reached . |
| 28 | adoption , and possibly a thousand people wanting those four babies ! |
| 29 | At the departmental level we might have ten a hundred possibly a thousand users but when we go enterprise-wide there may be thousands or many tens of thousands of users . |
| 30 | Last September I visited a garden which was nearly a thousand feet up , and I could see that the gladioli , planted as dormant corms in early May , were n't going to flower . |