What is "a thousand"

Usage examples of "a thousand".

That dark rectangular hole an opening which might lead to a cave of safety looked a thousand miles away.

That, and how he ran across the office trailer, right to the pictures of the China Pit on the bulletin board, like he'd been there a thousand times before.

Tak the Magnificent, creature of a thousand voices, most of which came equipped with Western drawls, and one set of ears.

She supposed she was responsible for at least some of that image she had seen Kirstie Carver's Hummel figures (a tiresome hobby if ever there was one, in Audrey's opinion) a thousand times but she understood that whatever she might have added didn't in the least change what Seth was trying to convey.

The pit is almost a thousand feet at its deepest, and cuts through layers of rock that go back all the way to the Paleozoic Era, three hundred and twenty-five million years ago.

But Jeremy's found more than a thousand copies so far, and there still seem to be more.