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Example sentences for "fifty thousand"

  • Then come Cebu, Mindanao, Leyte, Samar, and Negros, varying from the above numbers down to fifty thousand.

  • In the year 1590, she raised the customs from fourteen thousand pounds a year to fifty thousand, and obliged Sir Thomas Smith, who had farmed them, to refund some of his former profits.

  • One payment of twenty thousand crowns, and another of fifty thousand, were all she could obtain, by the strongest representations she could make of the difficulties to which the rebellion in Ireland had reduced her.

  • Auguste, Maximilien and Clara; desired a peerage for himself and a minister's daughter for his elder son, who had an income of fifty thousand francs.

  • In France, the remains of liberty are kept alive by the spirit, the honors, and even the prejudices, of fifty thousand nobles.

  • A purer spirit of religion was shown in the relief and deliverance of fifty thousand captives.

  • Yes, all; three packages, each containing one hundred notes of a thousand francs, and one package of fifty thousand.

  • Many people would sacrifice five years of their lives for three hundred and fifty thousand francs.

  • This duchy, which is not worth four thousand pounds a year at best to revenue, is worth forty or fifty thousand to influence.

  • At five o'clock the battle terminated; the Russians retreated on all sides into their woods, and fourteen thousand men had beat fifty thousand.

  • From forty to fifty thousand men, women, and children, glided through this forest as precipitately as their weakness and the slipperiness of the ground, from the frost beginning again to set in, would allow.

  • Fifty thousand pounds a year must have been a magnificent fortune for a Prince of Wales in the earlier part of the last century.

  • The King had hitherto only given him what Frederick called a beggarly allowance of fifty thousand a year, and even that had not been made over to the prince unconditionally and forever.

  • But it is hard indeed to understand how a prince who is to be worth nothing if you give him only fifty thousand a year, will be another Black Prince or Henry the Fifth if you let him have the spending of fifty thousand a year more.

  • At the close of the reign of Charles the Second, the net receipt was little short of fifty thousand pounds; and this was then thought a stupendous sum.

  • He has to dig up fifty thousand dollars to pay on his bonded indebtedness, and he's finding it a difficult job.

  • Say, they pay those chaps as high as fifty thousand dollars a year retainer!

  • Then they named a price of fifty thousand, and he said he didn't want it at all.

  • He makes a little out of everybody, and that little on every two millions brings him in forty to fifty thousand francs a year.

  • The miller of Soulanges, possessing an income of fifty thousand francs, had an only daughter whom Lupin desired for his son Amaury, since he had lost the hope of marrying him to Gaubertin's daughter.

  • In the course of three years, fifty thousand families, industrious and virtuous people, had fled the country.

  • Henry invaded France at the head of fifty thousand men.

  • You would give the girl and her money--fifty thousand--to this old hunks!

  • As to the trust fund of fifty thousand pounds'--the attorney gasped, and his eyes shone as he seized the pen anew.

  • Fifty thousand pounds is not found in the road any day?

  • Fifty thousand,' he said, and looked guiltily round him.

  • That would mean from twenty-five to fifty thousand a year.

  • The gins were still roaring and spitting flames and smoke--fifty thousand of them in town and vale.

  • The half million white farms are owned or controlled by five thousand wholesale merchants and three thousand big landowners, of whom you, Colonel Cresswell, are among the biggest with your fifty thousand acres.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brief interval; calm weather; destroy the; differ much; fifty acres; fifty cents; fifty days; fifty dollars; fifty feet; fifty francs; fifty guns; fifty pounds; fifty tons; fifty years; free grace; high reputation; ils sont; judgment against; know only; metallic lead; pulled back; then were; valid only; what says; white sandstone; will perhaps