'Hundred' is the order of magnitude, just as 'twenty'shows the order of magnitude. In the UK 'a hundred, a hundred and one, a hundred and two' etc is a common style when speaking about …

Jun 29, 2015 · I have interviewed more than a hundred politicians, artists … The difference is that in the former you are making the distinction of having interviewed a particular kind of …

May 30, 2017 · If we now turn to counting larger numbers, we can see how the orders of magnitude, ‘hundred’ and ‘thousand’ bear a formal relationship to units such as yards and …

Jun 5, 2019 · I can certainly envisage situations where “one hundred” would be preferred; for example, in response to a question such as: Q. Did Cruella de Ville steal one hundred and one …

Jul 24, 2017 · A hundred and five cows. Two thousand is more than I expected. Forty million, seven hundred thousand and sixty-three accounts have been opened. The second use is as a …

Jan 31, 2024 · Numbers with hundreds are normally spelled out without hyphens; e.g., 250 = “two hundred and fifty”. But when informally spoken as “two fifty”(*), such as in dialogue, should this …

Nov 1, 2015 · For hundred, "an hundred" appears nine times, and "a hundred" thirty-one. So something different seems to be going on with "an hundred" . You can tell from the scansion …

Feb 12, 2012 · 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. Until about …

If, however, the quantities had been 453, 1,100, 2,017, and 5,706, then they should be read as "four hundred fifty-three, one thousand one hundred, two thousand seventeen, and five …

Sep 29, 2010 · The fractional reading of decimal numbers also starts to become a bit ridiculous if there are more than three digits after the decimal point: nobody would say 3.14159265=three …