Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] thousand " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the signing of the Treaty of Limerick in October 1691 the risk of an invasion via Ireland was slight , but unrest continued in Scotland , with whose problems William III had no sympathy ; he is said to have remarked that he wished it were a thousand miles away . |
| 2 | There were a thousand possible combinations … one-four-six , one-four-seven … in twenty minutes I could perhaps try a hundred and fifty numbers . |
| 3 | In the unblinking black eyes were a thousand upon a thousand years of survival . |
| 4 | Anyway , these curtains were a thousand times better than the ones off the skips ; lovely , real linen or silk or thick velvet , lined and interlined , fringed and tasselled . |
| 5 | A bookmark showed the page : ‘ J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans ’ — ‘ I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old . ’ |
| 6 | There were a thousand uses for Herrick 's implants , but most would be used as they had on Haavikko — to make a man vulnerable by making him believe he had done something when he had n't . |
| 7 | to actually create the right learning environment for them , there were a thousand little details that I had to attend to , like had I planned my lesson right , was I progressing in the right way round the classroom , had I remembered to chase up certain people 's homework , and stuff . |
| 8 | She knew it did n't make any sense , not after she had spent most of the day wishing she were a thousand miles away from Julius , but she suddenly felt rather desperately in need of human company — even Julius 's . |
| 9 | Erm oh there were a thousand and one things I I ca n't really erm you know they they were always they were at it hammer and tongs you know they had er s what would be called something similar to a steam hammer and you know . |
| 10 | ‘ If there were a thousand Departments of Defence in Canada or elsewhere , instead of one , these would still not compete for citizens , because citizens are not their customers ; politicians are ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe 1982 , p. 91 ) . |
| 11 | There were a thousand men out , Charlie ! |
| 12 | He himself had been unsettled to find a note and a feather placed in his room , but this was a thousand times worse . |
| 13 | From his knowledge of ‘ Romances , & Relations of Giants & Magicians , & Genii ’ , his mind was soon ‘ habituated to the Vast ’ , and when , walking home to Ottery one winter evening , his father told him the names of the stars ‘ and how Jupiter was a thousand times larger than our world — and that the other twinkling stars were Suns that had worlds rolling round them ’ , Coleridge listened with profound delight , ‘ but without the least mixture of wonder or incredulity ’ . |
| 14 | It was a thousand pounds . |
| 15 | It was a thousand times better that England should be a Prussian colony . |
| 16 | Bankruptcy was a thousand miles away . |
| 17 | Suppose sometimes in those circumstances , I know I mean my mum and dad died two years ago it was a thousand pound ! |
| 18 | so six months later Terry 's mother died it was a thousand pound gone up ! |
| 19 | Was a thousand last week . |
| 20 | There was a thousand men on that ! |