hundred

Converse of object

• advertize: The CEMS Placement team has close links with the business community and advertize hundreds of work placements every year.
• kill: Protesters who escaped say government troops fired into the crowd, killing hundreds of people.
• save: By reducing the number of diapers going to landfill, local authorities can save hundreds of thousands of pounds on disposal costs.
• attract: Every February the adjacent River Nene is host to the Head of the River Race which again attracts hundreds of entries.
• contain: The Bible contains hundreds of prophecies which have come to pass.
• receive: But Time has received hundreds of complaints from readers and Web users.

Converse of subject

• surround: At once, the patrol was surrounded by hundreds of other young people, all offering their cards for checking.
• join: They were joined by hundreds of Leeds families, including current members of 442 and potential new recruits.

Adjective modifier

• many: Cheers for your many hundreds of emails, sorry I couldn't use them all.
• Many: Many hundreds of thousands of pounds have been poured into research attempting unsuccessfully to demonstrate that BSE occurs naturally in sheep.
• several: The total number of members which it regrouped reached several hundreds.
• back: Would you like to travel back hundreds of years to explore local history?

Modifies a noun

• year: There are enough world phosphate and potash stocks to last over two hundreds years.

Noun used with modifier

• year: HSBC Firework Safety Each year hundreds of people are injured by fireworks.

Preposition: of

• thousand: There were hundreds of thousands of Scots sold into slavery during Colonial America.
• million: What has happened to the hundreds of millions raised by the Asian Tsunami Appeal?
• pound: Benevolent Fund raises hundreds of pounds to help members in times of personal crisis.
• mile: In Europe there are hundreds of miles of rivers to explore.
• kilometer: Typically, they are a few tens of kilometers across at their source, expanding to hundreds of kilometers across downstream.
• dollar: Can they afford hundreds of dollars or more in bills?