I found in some dictionaries that tens of is actually not correct. The difference is that hundreds of thousands of means at least 200,000, but probably more. Which word choice is correct?
The phrase hundreds more of (red line) was frequent in the 1800's, more hundreds of (blue line) in the early 1900's, and few hundred more (green line) at the moment. Hundreds doesn't have to refer to even multiples of 100 (as in 300, 400, etc); In the same way, if you wanted to generally describe,.
I also found that hundreds of coul. The question title refers to expressing thousands using multiples of hundreds, like saying twelve hundred instead of one thousand two hundred this is somehow new to me. They won hundreds of dollars; Hundreds?为什么一个要加s 一个不需要。 是因为有of吗? several hundred million wokers hundreds of millions of people 显示全部 关注者 6
As the sources below state, the author—technically—should use hundred in this case. Five hundreds to be precise! Or the company saved several hundreds of thousands of dollars. People use it for amounts such as 472.
It's vague but huge (relatively), but hundreds and thousands of is illogical and semantically. I did no prior research.