The phrase "astonishing thousands" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or event that impressively affects or involves a large number of people.
Example: "The concert attracted astonishing thousands of fans, filling the stadium to capacity."
Alternatives: "amazing thousands" or "incredible thousands".
(Cotter) ★ Museum of Biblical Arts: 'The Adoration of the Magi by Bartolo di Fredi: A Masterpiece Reconstructed' (through Sept. 9) An astonishing 14th-century Italian painting has, if by miracle, left its home in Siena for the first time and landed at the Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan as the main attraction of this tiny, perfect exhibition, where it is reunited with two other small paintings.
Emilia Fox – who would be one of my personal dreamboats (lucky girl) but for having come across a twitch too jolly-hockey (actually, a twitch too annexing-the-Sudetenland) in one of those forgettable Bear Grylls things last year – still nails her singular mix of unstable intensity as Silent Witness continues into an astonishing 19th season.
An astonishing 48% of 9th-graders got the same news.
Really, though, it's astonishing that the 13th Floor Elevators are here at all.
Nearby in the Romanesque church of St Martin in the village of Nohant-Vic, is an astonishing collection of 12th century frescoes, which were saved following the intervention of George Sand.
This astonishing leviathan, a 19th-century French chateau soaring out of the County Durham countryside, combined an outstanding French and Spanish fine art collection with substantial storage space.
At one end of Djurgarden, just outside the gates to Skansen, is the Vasamuseet, a peaked, asymmetrical building designed to house its astonishing contents: the 17th-century royal warship Vasa.
"That Australian governments believe they can manipulate and discriminate against Aboriginal communities in a manner that has been described in the UN as 'permissively racist' is astonishing in the 21st century.
It is astonishing, in the 21st century, that people are still allowed to burn mountainsides – destroying their vegetation, roasting their wildlife, vaporising their carbon, creating a telluric eczema of sepia and grey blotches – for any purpose, let alone blasting highland chickens out of the air.
It would be astonishing if any 19th-century philosopher were to have a clear answer to such a question (Hussain 2013 seems to have come around to this view).
