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in French we have :


  • une poignée (a handfull)
  • une dizaine (around 10)
  • une douzaine, quainzaine, vingtaine, etc... (around 12, 15, 20, etc ... )
  • des centaines (many hundreds)
  • des milles et des cents ( many thousands and hundreds )
  • des millions et des millions (many millions)
  • des centaines de millions (many hundreds of millions)
  • you can change "millions" by milliard (billions) or else...
  • we say also "des tonnes de" like "tons of" but in a broader sense than just weight measurement
  • and probably a lot of other expressions I don't remember right now...

so it seems pretty close to the spanish usage...

in english I like the "gazillion" term, it's so exotic ;)