un millier

a thousand

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phrase Rare #26,018

a thousand Used to talk about an approximate quantity of 1,000. Often followed by de + noun.

FR: Un millier de personnes sont venues au concert.

EN: A thousand people came to the concert.

I have treated more than a thousand patients.

— Don Juan DeMarco (1994)

I don't have more than a thousand yen.

I've made this journey a thousand times.

There is a bright spirit here, filled with a thousand colorful dreams.

— Des étoiles sur la terre (2007)

A thousand?

— भाग मिल्खा भाग (2013)

You would need a thousand of these pieces.

— Paddington 2 (2017)

But that one managed to sleep underground for a thousand years.

— Nausicaä de la vallée du vent (1984)

I've done this a thousand times.

I've lived a thousand lives.

There could have been a thousand people.

We have a thousand places like this.

— Dune : Deuxième partie (2024)

There were about a thousand people.

There may have been as many as a thousand people there.