Below you will find example sentences with "few thousand". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Few Thousand in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: thousand
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 27.8 words

Words in this phrase

few thousand

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • few can mean: An indefinite, but usually small, number of. Common word
  • thousand can mean: A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10³ (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation.) Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 2 start, 14 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

a few thousand miles on 1× allowing a few thousand hippies fucked 1× and a few thousand other crew 1× be a few thousand email lists 1× caliphates a few thousand kilometres from 1× clear a few thousand cases this 1× finding a few thousand dollars here 1× from a few thousand to a 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a few thousand 1× a lot has 1× although the adl 1× an acreage spokesperson 1× and now they 1× church records showed 1×

Common sentence endings:

2019 or 2020 1× a few thousand 1× and copycat groups 1× cases this year 1× chemical fly control 1× ever precise diction 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

dollars 7× year 5× years 5× hundred 3× now 3× pay 3× members 2× next 2× submitted 2× funds 2× new 2× lot 2×

Related phrases

few hundred few years few weeks few months few days last few thousand dollars few quarters past few few examples

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around thousand:

thousand people 13× ten thousand 12× thousand years 11× five thousand 9×

Just before it in the phrase index:

few tens few quarters few months few moments few hundred few highlights

Just after it in the phrase index:

few weeks few years fewer people fiction main fiction stories field goal

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

few hundred few years few weeks few months few days few quarters

Same ending:

hundred thousand ten thousand five thousand

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "few thousand" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a few thousand miles on, allowing a few thousand hippies fucked, dollars, year and years stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with few hundred, few years, few weeks, thousand people, ten thousand and thousand years, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with few thousand

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Just a few thousand dollars. (5 words)

It was noting short of finding a few thousand dollars here, a few thousand dollars there. (16 words)

Although the ADL receives a few thousand reports a year, many antisemitic interactions occur daily that go unreported. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

An Acreage spokesperson declined to comment on the firm’s executive pay policies, but such positions typically pay a few thousand bucks per meeting for a few meetings a year — sometimes in cash, but often in the flightier currency of stock options. (42 words)

It is a thoroughly lowering and unsparing exposition of the plight we now find ourselves in. “What happens now and in these next few years will profoundly affect the next few thousand years,” Attenborough says with that ever precise diction. (40 words)

Tax experts are of the opinion that the refund amounts this year could shrink by a few hundred to a few thousand dollars depending on a taxpayer’s situation, something similar to the refunds seen in 2019 or 2020. (39 words)

Example sentences (20)

It was noting short of finding a few thousand dollars here, a few thousand dollars there.

On the ocean liner, it could be you and several thousand other guests and a few thousand other crew members going along for the ride.

Kits to wind back odometers on cars can be bought easily online, with prices ranging from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand.

Tax experts are of the opinion that the refund amounts this year could shrink by a few hundred to a few thousand dollars depending on a taxpayer’s situation, something similar to the refunds seen in 2019 or 2020.

But in a time of diminishing research budgets, as scientists squabble over grants of a few thousand dollars here or there, he argues, there are few avenues of public funding for projects of this scale.

It is a thoroughly lowering and unsparing exposition of the plight we now find ourselves in. “What happens now and in these next few years will profoundly affect the next few thousand years,” Attenborough says with that ever precise diction.

An Acreage spokesperson declined to comment on the firm’s executive pay policies, but such positions typically pay a few thousand bucks per meeting for a few meetings a year — sometimes in cash, but often in the flightier currency of stock options.

Church records showed that the treasurer was elected in January 1994, the year that the submitted missionary funds dropped from a few thousand to a few hundred dollars some years, and with several years showing zero funds submitted.

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The main wedding shaming group has over 20,000 members (a few thousand of these are brand new), as well as a few splinter and copycat groups.

A few thousand miles on foot later and Russ is in a much better place, with a mission to complete, and a lot of walking ahead.

A lot has changed since 2000, with more than $1 billion in construction and renovation work in downtown and the Riverfront, along with a few thousand new residents.

Although the ADL receives a few thousand reports a year, many antisemitic interactions occur daily that go unreported.

And now they have really appointed a large number of committees to go into the missing persons and they are hoping to clear a few thousand cases this year.

Especially, not so that a few thousand wealthy plutocrats could exercise a putative “right” to wallow in luxury while knowingly cruising into harm’s way.

He said African states had requested the French operations which successfully prevented the formation of caliphates a few thousand kilometres from France’s borders.

If you’re anything like me, you are on what seems to be a few thousand email lists for conservative and/or GOP legislators.

It created a theory that because all Jewish people around the world are descendants of ancient Hebrews a few thousand years ago, they have a right to return.

Just a few thousand dollars.

Speaking of rules, I just can't imagine why they stopped allowing a few thousand hippies fucked out of their minds on booze and drugs to continue shooting full auto weapons and blow up whatever they wanted.

Stacked up against those losses, the cost of a few thousand parasitic wasps can be a small price to pay for a non-chemical fly control.

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