thousand or thousands of - WordReference Forums It would be "a thousand" or "thousands of", but not "thousand of" The same is true for other numbered groupings: a dozen dozens of a score scores of a hundred hundreds of a milllion millions of The "thousand" here is a single group "Thousands" are multiple instances of a thousand
two thousands OR two thousand | WordReference Forums Talking about pure numbers, we can also use plurals: 'the total is somewhere in the two thousands' = it's somewhere between 2000 and 2999, but I'm not sure where We talk about 'the low two thousands' (2000 to perhaps about 2300) and 'the low thousands' (somewhere over 1000 to about 3000, but not a larger number of thousands)
hundreds of thousands - WordReference Forums I searched the meaning of "thousands" and "hundreds" hundredsThe numbers from 100 to 999 (Lexico Dictionary) thousands The numbers from one thousand to 9,999 so I got to wonder in "hundreds of thousands", what if it's 999(hundreds) of 9,999(thousands) then it becomes approximately 10million
hundreds of thousands of | WordReference Forums Unlike Julian I think "hundreds of thousands" are often used even when the "hundreds" amount to 12 or 15 or a bit more For me, "hundreds of thousands" could exceed one million, but not approach two million at which point people would naturally say "millions"
$0,000s and $0,000s - WordReference Forums In financial reports, I often see (,000s) written at the top of a column indicating that you should add "000" to any figure displayed ", I wondered if "$0,000s" means, for example, $30,000" or "$50,000" or whatever adding 1-9 numbers before the first "0", hence, "tens of thousands of dollars" not "thousands of dollars "
many thousands of VS millions of | WordReference Forums No "Many thousands" usually means 10,000 or 18,000 A million is a thousand thousands: far more than "many thousands" I often run into the problem in English: how to express a vague range of numbers There are "dozens", "hundreds", "thousands" and "millions" but there is nothing in between
100 thousand or 100,000? - WordReference Forums single number of thousands and tens of thousands, 8 thousand, 80 thousand - 8,000, 80,000 But do use it for hundreds of thousands where the number ends in zero or five - 100 thousand, 125 thousand but not commonly for other numbers: 782 thousand 782,000
tens of thousands of - WordReference Forums If you mean the exact number, use these: a thousand people = one thousand people = 1000 people ten thousand people = 10 000 people
hundred or hundreds? - WordReference Forums That is correct In compound numerals, 'hundred' and 'thousand' stay invariable: three hundred, two thousand nine hundred etc The plural is only used to show a large but approximate quantity: hundreds of people, thousands of cars, hundreds of thousands of ants etc