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Dozen, Hundred , Thousand, etc.

   More than two dozen roses ...

1) ' a Score' ( = 20, in Old English), 'a Dozen' ( = 12 ), a 'hundred' ( =  100 ), a 'thousand' ( = 1,000 ), a 'million' ( = 1,000,000 ) and 'a billion' remain in the singular when they are multiplied by a precise number or preceded by 'several', 'a few', 'many'. 

Clearly, they are numeric adjectives, and like all adjectives, they always remain in the singular. They are followed by a noun (expressed or not). 

ex : How many demonstrators were there in front of the Capitol this morning ? Oh ! There were at least two thousand ...




ex: There are only six hundred people living in this village.


ex : Do you know that there were three thousand, two hundred and forty-five candidates in this worldwide  competition. 






                         






2) On the contrary, 'ten', 'score', 'dozen', hundred', 'thousand', 'million' , 'billion' must be in the plural, when they are followed by 'of ' and by a noun.
Indeed, they stop being adjectives and become  nouns linked to other nouns by the preposition 'of'.


ex : Dozens of eggs were broken in the collision of the delivery trucks.




ex : Millions of suburbans commute to NYC  every morning.



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A dozen of timesDozens of timesTen dozens of timesTen dozens timesI don't know, I have dreamt of being someone else : I could be an explorer visiting three hundred countriesthree hundred of countriesthree hundreds of countriesthree hundreds countriesI don't know a year, I'd meet thousand of strangersthousand strangersthousands of strangersthousands strangersI don't know, would visit five hundred sitesfive hundreds of sitesfive hundred of sitesfive hundreds sitesI don't know, taking notes, would walk up several hundreds stairsseveral hundred stairsseveral hundred of stairsseveral hundreds of stairsI don't know and admire thousands landscapesthousand of landscapesthousand landscapesthousands of landscapesI don't know, all of them wonderful !
I could also be an intellectual ! (couldn't I?) I'd read hundred of bookshundreds bookshundred bookshundreds of booksI don't know, study a few thousands articlesa few thousand articlesa few thousand of articlesa few thousands of articlesI don't know about Quantum Physics ! Between my tens lecturesmy tens of lecturesmy ten of lecturemy ten lecturesI don't know and conference calls, I'd go to my office and take four dozen of escalatorsfour dozen escalatorsfour dozens of escalatorsfour dozens escalatorsI don't know and as many elevators, meet ten colleguestens of colleaguestens colleaguesten of colleaguesI don't know, drink two dozen coffeestwo dozens of coffeestwo dozens of coffeetwo dozens of coffeesI don't know a day communicate with hundreds of peoplehundred of peoplehundred peoplehundreds peopleI don't know living in the far away jungle and then, write Five thousands of pagesfive thousands pagesfive thousand of pagesfive thousand pagesI don't know about their incredible ways of living.

But I' m afraid I'll be nobody but a normal New Yorker... Like fifteen millions of menfifteen millions menfifteen million menfifteen million of menI don't know and women a day, I'll take the subway, commute back home with million othersmillions othersmillions of othersmillion of othersI don't know, and at home, doze away studying my five hundreds pages reportfive hundreds-page reportfive hundred-page reportI don't know for the following morning meetings..
A rat race ? Million of ratsMillion ratsMillions of ratsMillions ratsI don't know running the same race, just hoping they'll meet thousand friendsthousands friendsthousand of friendsthousands of friendsI don't know and smiles doing so !!!!

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