'thousand' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a very large number, for example: "Due to the high demand, over a thousand tickets were sold within the first hour."
A few mil here and a few mil there may not sound like much, but when state budgets are tight it those costs add up.
Major individual donors to Labour in the new report include the computer tycoon Sir Alan Sugar (£200,000), the steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal (£125,000), Granada Group chairman Gerry Robinson (£20,000) and property mil lionaire Sir Sigmund Sternberg (£100,000).
MIL: You told the Guardian recently that 'Cults of Authenticity' should be abolished.
MIL: How do you decide to experiment with such a character?
MIL: "Away We Go", a critically successful film directed by Sam Mendes, was based on a screenplay you wrote with your husband, Dave Eggers.
MIL: You've said that all contemporary literature must worry through the avant-garde.
But the PLA often suspends "mil-mil" relations as a "punishment" whenever tension rises with America over Taiwan.
Emulating their southern neighbours, whose massed, rhythmic chants of "Yush-chen-ko" helped Viktor Yushchenko to Ukraine's presidency last winter, the Minsk protesters yelled "Mil-in-ke-vic" and "Freedom".
The scarcity of "mil-mil" contacts makes it harder for America and China to communicate in times of crisis.Secondly, the PLA fosters a paranoid fear within its ranks that America is bent on China's destruction.
Take road-side bombs, "improvised explosive devices" or IEDs in mil-speak, the commonest type of attack.
How far do other, similar relationships between military establishments provide a back-channel when conventional diplomacy is not enough?The cornerstone of America's "mil-mil" relationship with Egypt is the $1.3 billion in annual foreign military financing that it has handed over since 1979 as "untouchable compensation" for Egypt's peace with Israel.
