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; I found in some dictionaries that tens of is actually not correct.
Or the company saved several hundreds of thousands of dollars. People use it for amounts such as 472. In the same way, if you wanted to generally describe,.
Which word choice is correct? 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 I did no prior research. If i'm not mistaken, tens of means 10 to 99 and hundreds of means 100 to 999.
It's vague but huge (relatively), but hundreds and thousands of is illogical and semantically. Hundreds doesn't have to refer to even multiples of 100 (as in 300, 400, etc); I also found that hundreds of coul. As the sources below state, the author—technically—should use hundred in this case.
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. Five hundreds to be precise!