Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
\"a hundred of\"
English answer:
around a hundred
English term
\"a hundred of\"
The following is an excerpt from the book "The Hard Thing about Hard Things", by Ben Horowitz:
The other day I threw a big barbecue at my house and invited a hundred of my closest friends. These
types of gatherings aren’t unusual. My brother-in-law, Cartheu, and I have been barbecuing for years,
and my skills have earned me the nickname from my African American friends “the Jackie Robinson
of Barbecue.” I crossed the color line.
A colleague of mine and I are discussing the first sentence and cannot agree on the meaning of "a hundred of": One of us thinks the meaning of this expression is literal and it means exactly “100” guests, and the other thinks that it has been used figuratively, and therefore means "many," but definitely fewer than one hundred. She argues that how is it possible for a person to have 100 CLOSE friends. By the way she backs her arguments by evidence from:
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hundred
http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/engl...
Thank you!
| 4 +7 | around a hundred |
Yvonne Gallagher
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| 3 +4 | hundred of |
Bashiqa
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| 3 | a lot of |
Veronica Allievi
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May 9, 2016 12:53: Edith Kelly changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
May 17, 2016 10:18: Yvonne Gallagher Created KOG entry
Non-PRO (3): Tony M, Yasutomo Kanazawa, Edith Kelly
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Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
Native in: English (Variants: UK, US, Canadian, Irish) 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
around a hundred
I mean look at Facebook where some people have thousands of "friends"! So don't take it too literally...
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Glad to have helped
| Dear Gallagy, Thank you for your answer and explanation. All the best |
hundred of
Personally I would count close friends in tens not hundreds, but different people have different ideas of 'close friends'.
| Dear Bashiqa, Thank you for your answer and explanation. All the best |
| agree |
Tony M
27 mins
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Thank you.
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Yasutomo Kanazawa
57 mins
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Thank you.
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LSanders
6 hrs
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acetran
1 day 7 hrs
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university studies in transl disciplines
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
a lot of
| Dear Veronica, Thank you for your answer and explanation. All the best |
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