Fragen über die Beispielsätze mit, und die Definition und Benutzung von "Dozens"

A: There are dozens of us! means there is lots of us

A: dozen =12 of something.
'dozens and dozens' = a lot of something.

A: It means to have looked at dozens of memos. It usually refers to looking for something specific. For example, you scoured dozens of memos to find the one about the meeting last week.

A: A dozen is 12 of something, for example "a dozen eggs" is 12 eggs. "Dozens" just means "lots of" something.

A: just to keep a loooot of cats :)

A: Dozen: 12 of anything

There are dozens of birds in my backyard.

Dozens of people call my office every day.

A: One dozen = 12 of something. So we use "dozen" to talk about multiples of 12 with Eggs, donuts, etc.

"I think we're going to need dozens of eggs to feed this family of monsters."
"Dunkin' Donuts throws away dozens of perfectly good donuts a day."

A: He has a big aquarium with dozens of tropical fish.
Dozens of people gave their opinion at the public forum.

A: dozens means 12, great number of people means a lot of people (no specific amount), thousands of people means the amount of people are in the thousands (eg. 2000 people, 4000 people, 20 000 people, etc)

A: It is the same phrase. The only difference is that the writer had a specific subject connected to it, which is "edible spices". So don't worry too much about it. The meaning is still the same.

Also I apologize if my explanation is confusing I'm not really sure how to word it.

A: Hi

A natural expression could be ‘it was a thousand times scarier ‘…

Of course it’s not literarily a thousand times scarier, but it gives the impression of how much scarier the slide / slope is.

A: it would be better to say "it could be dozens or even hundreds of dollars."

A:
"there were dozens of fruit in a ratio of 3 to 1 of oranges to *apples*"

A: The second one is correct

A: "There must be dozens!" Sounds more natural