Sentence examples for about thousand from inspiring English sources

The phrase "about thousand" is not correct in standard written English.
It can be used when approximating a quantity, but it typically requires a unit of measurement or a modifier, such as "about a thousand" or "about one thousand."
Example: "The event attracted about a thousand attendees, making it a great success."
Alternatives: "approximately a thousand" or "roughly one thousand."

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One is MFE, the classical minimum free energy folding approach, based on a thermodynamic nearest-neighbour model with about thousand parameters.

For each energy and at each initial position, about thousand (typically 1350) trajectories are launched with different initial directions (angles in velocity space).

If you've never been to one of our Hackathons, here's the gist of it: take around about thousand coders and designers, give them a pretty much endless stream of pizza, and tell them they've got 24 hours to build the craziest thing they can think of.

Database searches with the updated CC-LRR generalized profiles were able to detect such domains in heterogeneous group of about thousand proteins.

This is justifiable because the number of molecules in the water-phase is about thousand times less than the number of bound molecules.

For example, a well mutagenized population of rice has one base change every 250 kb of diploid DNA [ 14], which is about thousand time less frequent than the natural SNP density between japonica and indica rice [ 15].

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He is about forty.

"He looked about ninety.

That took about two weeks.

[laughs] We did about four.

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