If used in a vague, intensifying way, hundred, thousand, million, billion (also lakh, crore etc,) can be used in the plural.
Examples:
Hundreds of men.
Thousands of rupees.
Tens of thousands of dollars.
Millions of people.
Billiions of pounds.
Lakhs of students etc.
But if a modifying agent (such as a, two, ten, seventy etc.) is used before these phrases, they should be singularised.
For example,
A/One hundred men.
Three thousand rupees. (
Ten of thousand dollars. (
Thirty five million people. (
Six billiion pounds. (
Twelve lakh students etc. (
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