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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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Dozens of timesTen dozens timesTen dozens of timesA dozen of timesI don't know, I have dreamt of being someone else : I could be an explorer visiting three hundreds countriesthree hundred countriesthree hundred of countriesthree hundreds of countriesI don't know a year, I'd meet thousand of strangersthousand strangersthousands of strangersthousands strangersI don't know, would visit five hundreds sitesfive hundred sitesfive hundreds of sitesfive hundred of sitesI don't know, taking notes, would walk up several hundred stairsseveral hundreds stairsseveral hundreds of stairsseveral hundred of stairsI don't know and admire thousands of landscapesthousand landscapesthousand of landscapesthousands landscapesI don't know, all of them wonderful !
I could also be an intellectual ! (couldn't I?) I'd read hundreds bookshundred of bookshundred bookshundreds of booksI don't know, study a few thousands of articlesa few thousand of articlesa few thousands articlesa few thousand articlesI don't know about Quantum Physics ! Between my ten of lecturemy tens lecturesmy tens of lecturesmy ten lecturesI don't know and conference calls, I'd go to my office and take four dozens escalatorsfour dozen escalatorsfour dozen of escalatorsfour dozens of escalatorsI don't know and as many elevators, meet ten of colleaguestens colleaguestens of colleaguesten colleguesI don't know, drink two dozen coffeestwo dozens of coffeetwo dozens of coffeestwo dozens of coffeesI don't know a day communicate with hundreds of peoplehundreds peoplehundred peoplehundred of peopleI don't know living in the far away jungle and then, write five thousand of pagesFive thousands of pagesfive thousands 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 million menfifteen million of menfifteen millions 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-page reportfive hundred-page reportfive hundreds pages reportI don't know for the following morning meetings..
A rat race ? Millions of ratsMillions ratsMillion ratsMillion of ratsI don't know running the same race, just hoping they'll meet thousands of friendsthousand friendsthousand of friendsthousands friendsI don't know and smiles doing so !!!!

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