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Bookmark or Share- two thousands/two thousands of | WordReference ForumsJul 3, 2017. #2. Only (A) is correct there. Version (C) might work as "The volunteers sent more than two thousand of the crayons to Guangming Junior High School", where they're sending some of the crayons to the school but not all of them. But where you have a definite number such as two thousand (or, say, five hundred) then the word "thousand ...
- two thousands OR two thousand | WordReference ForumsEnglish - South-East England. Jun 1, 2012. #13. We don't say that with 'years'. We do use the plural when we talk about past centuries: the 1800s = the eighteen-hundreds = the years 1800 to 1899. So I suppose we might talk about the 2000s = the two thousands = the years 2000 to 2099. But I have never heard this.
- hundreds of thousands of | WordReference ForumsYes, that is the literal meaning. In practice, we don't always mean it literally when we use these expressions. We use them for exaggeration. 673 could be described as "thousands". "Hundreds of thousands" can mean "hundreds and thousands", which could be anything from more than a hundred to almost a million.
- thousand or thousands of - WordReference ForumsApr 7, 2009. #2. It would be "a thousand" or "thousands of", but not "thousand of". The same is true for other numbered groupings: a dozen / dozens of. a score / scores of. a hundred / hundreds of. a milllion / millions of. The "thousand" here is a single group.
- thousand or thousands | WordReference ForumsSenior Member. Spanish, Argentina. Dec 9, 2007. #5. Singular and plural forms of the number words: dozen, hundred, thousand, million, billion. When one of these words follows a word showing number or amount, it is not put in the plural and does not have of after it: ten million people; a few dozen eggs; about fifty thousand miles.
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