The phrase "a thousand small ways" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe numerous minor actions or methods that contribute to a larger outcome or effect.
Example: "She showed her love for her family in a thousand small ways, from cooking their favorite meals to leaving sweet notes around the house."
Alternatives: "countless little ways" or "many minor ways".
"It's the micromanagement of land that invades your liberty in a thousand small ways," he said.
He was a faker, just as, in a certain sense, she was, because to be Jewish — or Irish or Italian or African-American or, for that matter, a woman of the fifties caught up in the first faint stirrings of feminism — was to be compelled to fake it in a thousand small ways, to pass as one thing when, deep inside, you were something else.
LVMH's brands are all run independently under the exigent eye of Arnault, but they support each other in a thousand small ways.
Mom's profession is undervalued in a thousand small ways; her unpaid work is taken for granted.
That queue quickly knocks-on to other queues, we silt up in a thousand small ways, and that becomes one big problem.
Then we need to believe that the daily, personal decisions we make are linked, in a million small ways, to those larger prospects – for they surely are.
She did not have children – who drive me mad in a hundred small ways, I think, but also keep me, in the larger sense, sane.
"The man has done nothing but, in a million small ways, good deeds for people," said John Dearie, a former state assemblyman whose district included St. Raymond's and who grew up in the parish.
If "The Radiant Child" embellishes the legend in a hundred small ways, its cleverest maneuver is to keep its subject at enough of a remove to enhance his mystique.
But it's also both a more capable off-roader and a more thoughtfully designed off-road vehicle in a hundred small ways.
If you take big data and turn it into bite-sized nuggets of information that consumers can act on, and if you make it personal, easy, context sensitive and, most of all, actionable, you will change the world in a billion small ways, which lead to the big change that has been so elusive.
