Not "less than a thousand", but, to quote Rolf on 27th July this year:
the 1,027 examples of YIQTOL with past reference
Also on 9th June 2004 he mentioned:
more than 2,000 YIQTOLs with present reference
I don't have Tanakhic statistics at hand (some was at the end of Even-Shoshan), but 3,000 verbs do not sound like a major number. That is about 100 irregular verbs per book, a few per chapter. That is a tiny percentage, indeed. Besides, I expect Rolf's figures to be vastly inflated to reflect his exegetical needs.
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