hundreds of thousand(s)

[Randy Alexander]

In Brett Reynolds' response (
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/teachersatwork/2433/) to Ben Zimmer's OL
piece on chunking and collocations (
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/magazine/19FOB-OnLanguage-Zimmer.html?_r=1),
he used the term "hundreds of thousand" which I thought might be a typo.
Googling it, I find that it's probably not.  I also find significant numbers
of "hundred of thousands" and "hundred of thousand".

Does anyone have any ideas about their distribution?

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