"some thousand" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to generalize a large number, e.g. "He earned some thousand dollars last year."
How could you be so happy, now some thousand years.
With some thousand employees, the combined ministries are the fourth-largest private employer in town.
The film used some thousand models: five hundred dogs and five hundred humans.
In no time at all, in fact within 22 hours, there had been some thousand shares from my Facebook.
I had been hankering for a bowl of torn-up iceberg tossed in some Thousand Island dressing.
"Her back surgery, with the reconstruction and all that, was over three hundred and some thousand dollars," she said.
74,000 had burned in 1975, 60-some thousand in 1979... Since 1919, when the county began keeping records of its fires, some areas have burned eight times.
"But twenty-some thousand of it went to pay off that first mortgage, when she had that forty-six-thousand-dollar mortgage.
"About four hundred forty-some thousand dollars were directed to charity, either direct contributions or honorariums or matching funds from the boards that we sat on," he said.
That the Flyers won it, in overtime, on a gorgeous tic-tac-toe play, sending twenty-some thousand fans into a frenzy and drastically altering the calculus of the series — well, I, like Laviolette, was pretty satisfied by this.
The twenty-some thousand conference goers will deliberate on the theme of "turning the tide" when the future of the AIDS response remains uncertain in the post-2015 development framework.
