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Thousands Refer Things People Emphasizing Day Quantifier Commuters

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quantifier
If you refer to t________ of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them.If you refer to thousands of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them.
Thousands of commuters are packed into over-crowded trains every day.
I must have driven past that place thousands of times.
Hundreds have been killed in the fighting and thousands made homeless.
word thousand
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other
number
A thousand or one thousand is the number 1,000.
...five thousand acres.
Visitors can expect to pay about a thousand pounds a day.
quantifier
If you refer to thousands of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them.
Thousands of commuters are packed into over-crowded trains every day.
I must have driven past that place thousands of times.
Hundreds have been killed in the fighting and thousands made homeless.
inflections thousands
cefr-level A1

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