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Hundreds Refer Things People Emphasizing Quantifier Tree Species

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quantifier
If you refer to h_______ of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them.If you refer to hundreds of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them.
Hundreds of tree species face extinction.
Today you can buy hundreds of flavours of ice-cream.
Hundreds have been killed in the fighting and thousands made homeless.
word hundred
full-definition
other
number
A hundred or one hundred is the number 100.
According to one official more than a hundred people have been arrested.
quantifier
If you refer to hundreds of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them.
Hundreds of tree species face extinction.
Today you can buy hundreds of flavours of ice-cream.
Hundreds have been killed in the fighting and thousands made homeless.
inflections hundreds
cefr-level A1

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