number
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
several hundred/thousand etc
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The bill came to several hundred pounds.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cool million/hundred thousand etc
be batting a thousand
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because everyone was in such a good mood, he must have collected several thousand francs.
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How do I decide rationally when I hear a thousand different voices screaming contradictory advice?
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It sold ten thousand copies and was followed by my Hindu View of Art.
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It was the next night after about one hundred and thirty thousand people in Dresden would die.
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It would cost the branch a few thousand dollars to rectify.
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The grand enslavement began in the Middle East, with rye, thirteen thousand years ago.
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The scientists had drilled nearly 600 feet into the ocean bottom in over ten thousand feet of water.
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The second night the marchers showed up, the neighborhood mob grew to almost a thousand .