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Example sentences for "sixteen thousand"

  • On the thirteenth day of March the army was assembled at Caudela, to the number of sixteen thousand men; under the auspices of the marquis das Minas, to whom the earl of Galway was second in command.

  • Make it sixteen thousand, make it sixteen thousand," Klakee-Nah said grandly.

  • El-Soo received them into her hands and said to Tommy, "Let them be reckoned as sixteen thousand.

  • Take, first, the problem of disembarking an army of sixteen thousand men, with the supplies necessary for its maintenance, on an unsheltered coast.

  • There were never half enough mules to equip an adequate supply-train for an army of sixteen thousand men, even if that army never went more than ten or twelve miles from its base.

  • In 1696 the salary of the clergy was fixed at sixteen thousand pounds of tobacco, worth at that time about eighty pounds.

  • The emoluments of the clergy of the established church for a long time had consisted of sixteen thousand pounds of tobacco, contributed by each parish.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another part; colored hair; different cases; double columns; faithful servant; free course; great risk; inch cubes; occurs only; remarkably well; sixteen dollars; sixteen feet; sixteen guns; sixteen hours; sixteen hundred; sixteen inches; sixteen miles; sixteen millions; sixteen shillings; sixteen thousand; sixteen years; sixteenth century; upper surface; wanted very; warm climate; will sleep