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Example sentences for "three thousand"

  • He had gone off with the extra three thousand in his pocket, to be sure; but he didn't intend to appropriate it outright to his own uses.

  • What more likely, indeed, seeing he had made off with Guy's three thousand pounds?

  • Nevitt hadn't three thousand pounds in the world to pay.

  • But I haven't three thousand pounds in the world to meet it with," Guy exclaimed in despair.

  • This is probably the only instance on record where common family flour brought three thousand dollars a pound in the public market.

  • The city has a population of one hundred and thirty-three thousand, and is growing faster than any other small city out of America.

  • They have braved the storms and sieges of three thousand years, and have been shaken by many an earthquake, but still they stand.

  • This species of stone is so hard that figures cut in it remain sharp and unmarred after exposure to the weather for two or three thousand years.

  • A new Opposition journal is just starting, under the auspices of the deputies of the Left; you shall be the cashier, with a salary of three thousand francs.

  • As for me, I am to be cashier of a newspaper, with a salary of three thousand francs, and there you are, out of all your anxieties on my account.

  • During the past eleven years, Madame Descoings, by giving up three thousand francs a year, had paid her debt twice over, but she still continued to sacrifice her grandson's interests to those of the Bridau family.

  • My total force was then about thirty-three thousand men.

  • I have already said that General Taylor's whole command on the Rio Grande numbered less than three thousand men.

  • The Union force that had crossed the Mississippi River up to this time was less than forty-three thousand men.

  • India, which is second on the Asiatic list, has no more than nine thousand telephones--one to every thirty-three thousand of her population!

  • You will give me then two hundred francs; and if I promise to cure the patient you will give me three thousand.

  • Three thousand francs in copper were rejected; but a sum in other coin of one hundred and three thousand francs was safely carried off on the four horses.

  • The minister of justice has awarded me a pension of twelve hundred francs as the daughter of a former judge; my father has his retiring pension of three thousand, and his professorship will give him five thousand more.

  • Three thousand a year when her uncle dies.

  • To Ali, however, this defection brought no despondency; and with unabated courage he prepared to defend himself to the last, in three castles, with a garrison of three thousand men.

  • Three thousand years, at the least, have passed away since that riddle was propounded; and it seems odd enough that the proper solution should not present itself till November of 1849.

  • I have fifteen years' lease still to run; it will, moreover, cost me three thousand francs a year to get other buildings.

  • That is three thousand francs a year," said du Tillet.

  • With a force of from two to three thousand cavalry, he entered the State through Pound Gap in the latter part of May.

  • This will give Butler thirty-three thousand men to operate with, W.

  • Out of three thousand men in the Canadian 8th Brigade their casualties were twenty-two hundred.

  • The first attack on the Bluff and its recapture cost us three thousand casualties, and that was only the beginning of a daily toll of life and limbs in that neighborhood of hell.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    social questions; three acres; three bays; three brothers; three cupfuls; three equal vertical bands; three gallons; three great; three hundred and fifty; three hundred and sixty; three hundred and twenty; three judges; three knots; three more; three pounds; three ranks; three regiments; three sections; three ships; three sides; three sorts; three teaspoonfuls; three weeks; three wheels; three women; three years