What is "thousands"

Usage examples of "thousands".

Well-heeled Greys and meritocrats traveled from thousands of kilometers some, thousands of light yearsjust to spend several days browsing among the myriad of shops in each area.

He had thousands of problems to deal with daily, most of which he fed to his selected councilors and their assistants, but he was taking a personal interest in the response to a supernova explosion near four relatively loyal Imperial worlds, including beautiful and productive Sarossa.

The ship's crew, carefully selected from the citizen class, had stocked up on such entertainments by the thousands before launching on their missions, which might take them away from civilized ports for months.

It was because of their considerable skill and intuition borne of thousands of years of experience that the Palacethat is, Chen and his fellow Commissionerscould keep a kind of balance with just the minimal, boiled-down stock from the vast Galactic stew.

His people, from the small southern hemisphere Lavrenti Sector, had worked as servants to the Imperial courts for thousands of years.

He had seen to it that tens of thousands were tried and sent to the Rikerian Prison, or put to hard labor in the worst depths of the heatsinks themselves.

He was far more content to operate in the background and let his thousands of cohorts act out public roles.

Here, in a vast hall designed to hold tens of thousands, they stood alone.

The main room of the house contained two chairs, and in the walls, there were niches for three tiktoks, but to Lodovik, they looked like the niches once reserved for robots on Aurora, tens of thousands of years ago.

The two stars orbited a common center, actually several tens of thousands of kilometers below the surface of the larger deep red star, a dwarf little more massive than Tranter's own sun, yet a thousand times more diffuse.

Yet no passengers other than robots had traveled on this ship for thousands of years.

We have thousands of little diseased patches, scrubby growth, general decaya very unhealthy situation.

Running it from behind the scenes like puppet mastersfor thousands of years!

He had been waiting for the arrival of a commodities freighter, one of the ten or so ships that arrived on Madder Loss every week, down from the thousands of past decades.

Accustomed as he was to dealing with time periods of thousands of years, Daneel's phrasing gave him a sudden view of possible futures in which Hari Seldon had not succeeded, in which Daneel would start all over again with another bright young mathist, another long plan to alleviate human suffering.