Preposition: of

• millimeter: A single cell in the human body contains 2 meters of DNA packed into a nucleus only 5 thousandths of a millimeter across.

• gram: A rolled banknote used to sniff cocaine can have a thousandth of a gram of the drug left on it.

• inch: The grooves of a record are a few thousandths of an inch wide.

• second: The time between the two frames below is 20 thousandths of a second.

• degree: Nuclear Cooling: Nuclear cooling is the only cooling method to work successfully below one thousandth of a degree absolute.

• millimeter: The various colors of visible light have wavelengths somewhat less than a thousandth of a millimeter, about the size of bacteria.

Converse of object

• spend: Those of us in Europe spend two ten thousandths of our wages each year on space exploration and related research.

Adjective modifier

• few: The grooves of a record are a few thousandths of an inch wide.

Modifies a noun

• anniversary: The square was laid out in 1896 to mark the thousandth anniversary of the Magyar conquest.

• part: I have not time, room, or expression, to tell a thousandth part of the goodness of God to my soul.

• time: Let me say, for the thousandth time, that you never put your absolute faith in any safety device on the weapon.

• generation: He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation.

• year: We are presently in the five thousandth year of the age of Kali according to astronomical calculation and evidence in the revealed scriptures.

• member: A night of a thousand stars The ABF celebrated its one thousandth member at the association's annual dinner last year.