Below you will find example sentences with "thousand years". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Thousand Years in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: thousand
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.6 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 2 start, 8 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "thousand years" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 28.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 7 5 thousand years ago, a few thousand years ago they, ago, few and two stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with years ago, two years, five years, thousand people, ten thousand and few thousand, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with thousand years
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Residence times of these metals, such as zinc, are several thousand to one hundred thousand years. (16 words)
About two thousand years ago, emissions of zinc from mining and smelting totaled 10 thousand tonnes a year. (18 words)
In about 40,000 years it will be the closest star for a period of several thousand years. (18 words)
This tradition dates back to over two thousand years. citation Even after the Indian languages were put on paper in the 13th century, palm leaves where considered a preferred medium of writing owing to its longevity (nearly 400 years) compared to paper. (42 words)
It is a thoroughly lowering and unsparing exposition of the plight we now find ourselves in. “What happens now and in these next few years will profoundly affect the next few thousand years,” Attenborough says with that ever precise diction. (40 words)
More recent work suggests that Halley will evaporate, or split in two, within the next few tens of thousands of years, or will be ejected from the Solar System within a few hundred thousand years. (35 words)
Why not say that it is reckoned from the Exodus from Egypt, omitting the first thousand years and giving the years of the next thousand? (25 words)
Example sentences (20)
The domestication of goats and sheep began 10 thousand years ago, while cattle were domesticated about 7.5 thousand years ago.
Why not say that it is reckoned from the Exodus from Egypt, omitting the first thousand years and giving the years of the next thousand?
About two thousand years ago, emissions of zinc from mining and smelting totaled 10 thousand tonnes a year.
Another name that was popular during this period was the term Tausendjähriges Reich ("Thousand-Year Reich"), the millennial connotations of which suggested that Nazi Germany would last for a thousand years.
Residence times of these metals, such as zinc, are several thousand to one hundred thousand years.
But a steady decline started about 5,000 years ago, and it accelerated within the last thousand years, with a sharper drop associated with the period we call the Little Ice age.
It is a thoroughly lowering and unsparing exposition of the plight we now find ourselves in. “What happens now and in these next few years will profoundly affect the next few thousand years,” Attenborough says with that ever precise diction.
At around 41.5 million years ago, stable isotopic analysis of samples from Southern Ocean drilling sites indicated a warming event for 600 thousand years.
Atmospheric variation In the early years of using the technique, it was understood that it depended on the atmospheric mainC / mainC ratio having remained the same over the preceding few thousand years.
In about 40,000 years it will be the closest star for a period of several thousand years.
Indian cattle ( zebu ), although domesticated eight to ten thousand years ago, are related to aurochs that diverged from the Near Eastern ones some 200,000 years ago.
More recent work suggests that Halley will evaporate, or split in two, within the next few tens of thousands of years, or will be ejected from the Solar System within a few hundred thousand years.
The times of these events vary greatly; moreover, the various Mesolithics within the span might be as short as roughly a thousand years or as long as roughly 15,000 years depending on the circumstances.
This tradition dates back to over two thousand years. citation Even after the Indian languages were put on paper in the 13th century, palm leaves where considered a preferred medium of writing owing to its longevity (nearly 400 years) compared to paper.
But this warped perspective also has fueled the flames of the most original sin of all — antisemitism — which dates back to the early history of Jews, several thousand years ago.
Control of oil after WWI drove politics that created troubles between Arabs and Jews who had lived among each other in the Middle East for two thousand years.
Even though our Sunday School children didn’t litter the carpet with the palms(remember, they’re Presbyterians), I reflected upon the time palms were strewn upon Jerusalem’s main thoroughfare two thousand years ago.
Historians guestimate that the first Christmas celebration occurred in ancient Rome around 336 C.E. - over a thousand years ago -. If you count its ties to pagan festivals, the holiday is still older.
In 1793, French King Louis XVI was executed in Paris, ending more than a thousand years of continuous French monarchy.
It created a theory that because all Jewish people around the world are descendants of ancient Hebrews a few thousand years ago, they have a right to return.