Example sentences of "over a thousand [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With over a thousand delegates from thirty three countries to choose from her impact must have been pretty powerful . |
| 2 | I had over a thousand letters of congratulation . |
| 3 | There have been over a thousand acts of piracy in the past ten years . |
| 4 | The sums of money allocated on the basis of these unreliable estimates are large : each additional child aged 5–17 in a lone-parent family attracts just over a thousand pounds in GRE . |
| 5 | But when the make do and mend clubs were told that even worn out soft collars and shirt cuffs would make maps for tank commanders , they responded well and over a thousand tons of rag was collected between nineteen forty two and nineteen forty three . |
| 6 | Now of course , ‘ Racehorses of 1990 ’ is the bible of the racing man , it 's over a thousand pages in total , there are pen portraits of all the eight thousand horses that ran on the flat in England in 1990 , and lot 's more as well . |
| 7 | In this project over a thousand flints from across southern Britain , including unworked flint nodules collected from the known mines , were analysed . |
| 8 | One of four Pakistan batsmen to hit over a thousand runs on this tour , he finished second in the averages with just under 60 . |
| 9 | Two-up and with half fuel , we briefly was over a thousand feet per minute of the VSI before I had to throttle back to slide into position behind the struggling Cessna 150 camera ship . |
| 10 | They had been at it for over two and a half hours before the searchlight finally picked out the slumped body in the yard of an abandoned farm at over a thousand metres on the slopes of Mount Guffone . |
| 11 | He talked to over a thousand sheikhs in Mesopotamia and — ’ |
| 12 | The view of Dmitri Obolensky , a leading authority on the Bogomils , is that they are the first European manifestation of a tradition which extends for over a thousand years from the teachings of Mani in third-century Mesopotamia to the Albigensian heresy , which appeared in southern France in the thirteenth century . |
| 13 | There was over a thousand lads on the camp |
| 14 | Thomas Telford ( q.v. ) built over a thousand bridges in his native country when he was commissioned to improve communications throughout the Highlands . |
| 15 | Mr Chairman , I , would like to slightly and trying not to be parochial , but having looked at the erm , figures , I , I just can not believe that those are honest figures , I mean there are eleven hundred and sixty nine people unemployed in Craven Arms or something like that , and they 've lost over a thousand jobs over the last few years , and erm , very few of those have been replaced . |
| 16 | Well Mr was over a thousand pound for the gall bladder operation |