The phrase "a thousand or however" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to express an approximation or a range of numbers, but it lacks clarity and completeness.
Example: "I can run a thousand or however many miles I need to complete the marathon."
Alternatives: "a thousand or so" or "around a thousand".
Armstrong says he never expected to then win "a second one or a third one, or however many".
For sevens to be at Rio in front of a billion people or however many people will watch it, it's just phenomenal".
"If I have to play a team four, six, or however many times, it is something I have to get on with".
At a party aboard a millionaire's yacht, blasted on coke and with this gorgeous creature on his arm, Jeff experiences a joyous epiphany: "The last six or however many hours it was were like a concentrated version of everything he had ever wanted from his life".
So instead of dallying in magical thinking and coming up with teams that could beat them this year, let's try to forecast the teams that could be ready for a title in three or five or however many years it takes for the Warriors dynasty to wane.
I said, "No, no, that's not how we did it with organized crime families". So I suggested that a thousand FBI agents be hired with a supplemental budget and then a thousand people with terrorist training and backgrounds, specialists, would go to this new task force and a like number, you know, two hundred or however many prosecutors were required.
After a year or two or three (or however long your arrangement works for), you may want to tweak what you're doing and give more to your charity.
However, a three or four-year-old tree should easily carry 20 fruits.
Beginning April 30, NAN will start a recruiting drive urging people to volunteer a day, a week, three weeks, or however long they can to address voter suppression.
A young, unknown writer could take a taxi fifty blocks, or however many it was, to Rockefeller Center.
