Sentence examples for thousand trades from inspiring English sources

This "city of a thousand trades" has always been sprawling and granular.

By 1971 "the city of a thousand trades" had become a sort of British Detroit, employing tens of thousands of car workers.

For Birmingham, the City of a Thousand Trades, was booming, the small metalworking shops that had fuelled its earlier growth now joined by bigger mills and factories.

Dating back to medieval times, this has always been a hive of commerce and manufacture, with tanneries and foundries clustered around canals in the city of a thousand trades.

Whereas Birmingham, "the city of a thousand trades", grew much faster than Manchester during the interwar period and was not hit as hard during the post-war decline, its growth since 1981 was propped up by the public sector.

Or that they have to make a thousand trades a day when you really only need one or two good ones".

A thou trades at a teeny.

Four hundred trades at a teeny.

I made two trades last week.

The primary change resulted from two trades.

His first four trades had mixed results.