Sentence examples for were not thousands from inspiring English sources
"But it is the truth that those [attacks before Sept. 11] were happening overseas and while there were Americans who died, there were not thousands and it did not happen on U.S. soil". The day after the Taliban seized Kabul in September 1996, State Department spokesman Glyn Davies encountered tough questions from U.S. reporters.
At least one was for a place, which could be confusing if the place recognized by the renamed were not thousands of miles away: Tiananmen Square Corner (42nd Street at 12th Avenue).
"We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again," Clinton said, as if there were not thousands of them already there.
There were not thousands at Fiumicino Airport to greet him as there were when he made his first journey to join Lazio when a high court judge asked if he was more famous than the Duke of Wellington after Waterloo.
"This is not 42nd Street".
But hundreds of millions is not billions.
The prize money is not millions.
"Asia Games are Not Zero Sum," Project Syndicate, April 23 , 2015
War and diplomacy are not zero-sum games.
"I'm not seventy," the actor, Frank Colardo, snapped.
