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|    Michael Kraemer to All    |
|    Re: SPRs and vmssoftware.com    |
|    08 Aug 25 20:21:56    |
      From: m.kraemer@gsi.de              On 08.08.2025 19:43, Arne Vajhøj wrote:              > And "hundreds of" is undoubtedly correct. As it strictly speaking       > just say more than two hundred.       >       > Some readers may assume that hundreds imply less than thousand. But       > that is reading between the lines.              No need to read between, just stay on line.       In my part of the universe "several hundred" means just that,       "less than thousand".       If it were more, they surely would have bragged about       "more than thousand".              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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