The phrase "a thousand manuscripts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a large quantity of written works, typically in the context of literature, research, or historical documents.
Example: "The library houses a collection of a thousand manuscripts, each offering unique insights into ancient cultures."
Alternatives: "one thousand documents" or "a myriad of manuscripts."
The contest model means a poet submitting a manuscript with a fee of around $25, and being part of a pool of anywhere from a few hundred to more than a thousand manuscripts judged "blindly --we'll see soon what that means in poetry contest parlance.
Hersey later recalled that the notice did not bring in many usable manuscripts: "As a result of the notices in the writers' magazines, I received a thousand manuscripts but was able to buy only ten!" The first issue included "Wolf of the Steppes", a werewolf story by Greye La Spina.
When I travelled there nine years ago, the mythical city, home to the shrines of three hundred and thirty-three Sufi saints, left a bleak impression, tempered only by the selected wonders under glass at the Ahmed Baba Centre, an edifice which, until last Friday, housed between sixty and a hundred thousand manuscripts dating back as far as the thirteenth century.
G'Schwind adds: "They [the screeners] each get between a hundred and fifty and two hundred manuscripts.
Like the other five volumes of diaries (boiled down from a hundred and forty-five manuscript notebooks) that Beaton published himself, "The Happy Years" was so aggressively rewritten that the reader sometimes trips over a tangle of contradictory verb tenses, or bumps into what are, in effect, footnotes that have been made to masquerade as part of the main text.
"We explained that this magazine receives about a thousand unsolicited manuscripts a week….
Thanks to a bequest of Bertha Overbury, Barnard 1896, the library has some 1900 books by women - ranging from a 1758 Boston edition of verse by Anne Bradstreet to first editions of Fannie Hurst, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, & Cornelia Otis Skinner - & nearly a thousand related manuscripts.
VIENNA: A WITTGENSTEIN TROVE -- Believed lost for half a century, four manuscripts by the influential Austrian-born British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) have been bought by Austria's National Library.
Very deep, they hold a hundred and seventeen fresh manuscripts, slender but all good to go.
With a fascinating past the two manuscripts are a prominent example for the application of the new Carolingian style.
Griesbach produced a list of nine manuscripts which were to be assigned to the Alexandrian text: C, L, K, 1, 13, 33, 69, 106, and 118.
