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. I found in some dictionaries that tens of is actually not correct. I did no prior research.
I also found that hundreds of coul. They won hundreds of dollars; Hundreds doesn't have to refer to even multiples of 100 (as in 300, 400, etc);
The difference is that hundreds of thousands of means at least 200,000, but probably more. 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. Five hundreds to be precise! If i'm not mistaken, tens of means 10 to 99 and hundreds of means 100 to 999.
Spacex and oneweb, a communications firm, plan to launch satellites in their thousands, not hundreds. what does it mean by in their thousands? Or the company saved several hundreds of thousands of dollars. In the same way, if you wanted to generally describe,. Which word choice is correct?
It's vague but huge (relatively), but hundreds and thousands of is illogical and semantically. 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