Examples of use of (a) thousand and one
1. The GNP stained with (a) thousand and one crimes and blood will face a stern punishment by the people‘s mindset.
2. Why not think our way out of debt, conjuring up (a) thousand and one more nights of guilt–free profligacy?
3. In this spirit did they change the "Arduous March" into a cheerful march and open a broad avenue for the building of a great prosperous powerful nation, overcoming (a) thousand and one trials.
4. The British aide Colonel Stirling wrote of that weekend that "(a) thousand and one things had to be thought of, but never once was Lawrence at a loss". He met any breaches of order with a bullet.
5. In a roundabout once known as Ali Baba Square, water occasionally flows from a bronze fountain portraying Kahramana, the slave girl who outwitted the 40 thieves of "A Thousand and One Nights." Boys play pool on tables lining the lazy Tigris River.