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Rule "Numeral (dozen, hundred, thousand, million) without a determiner or a number"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: Numeral (dozen, hundred, thousand, million) without a determiner or a number
Message: Use <suggestion>a \1</suggestion>, or use a number before '\1'.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • There are about thousand oaks in this park.
    Correction suggestion: a thousand
  • They say that one look is worth more than thousand words.
    Correction suggestion: a thousand
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • You need almost a hundred examples.
  • The U.S. government gave USD250 million to UNITA between 1986 to 1991.
  • It was selected as the first of Life magazine's 'hundred photos that changed the world'.
  • a couple dozen
  • At a peak of 6 million.
  • ... which inspired the television series The Six Million Dollar Man.
  • In U.S. bakeries, a baker's dozen is 13, not 12.
  • Mark Palmer and Vance Meyer would like your approval of the attached press release for the EnronOnline Million Trades milestone.
  • Maybe you’ve read hundred of books on a certain topic and know more about it than most.
ID: NODT_DOZEN [1]
Version: 6.8-SNAPSHOT (2025-10-24 22:33:07 +0200)