Like many politicians, Archer knows hundreds of people, but he has relatively few close friends.
And I know hundreds of other players who have taken that position.
I know hundreds of people, via on-line groups, who spend their lives in pain because doctors just don't get it.
You say that your husband knew hundreds of people you have never met.
I know hundreds of them by name, on sight.
Thorby had dozens of friends and knew hundreds by sight.
In fact growing up, he would get to know hundreds of these kids and to him they were all family.
I personally know hundreds of people who would like to go and can't afford to.
Between them, they knew hundreds of executives in the industry.
Almost everyone knows hundreds of recordings that are time machines.