Example sentences of "have [verb] a hundred [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 2 | Though it was holding weekly meetings in the 1920s it was no new group , having started a hundred years previously in a London coffee house where members met to discuss debtors and exchange information about how best to deal with bad payers . |
| 3 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 4 | The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 . |
| 5 | He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before . |
| 6 | and it 's on more I 've used a hundred units more . |
| 7 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 8 | His behaviour , as the Victorian constitutionalist Walter Bagehot had noted a hundred years earlier , was the prerogative of princes . |
| 9 | On the west , they said , the waves had ranged a hundred feet high up the cliffs , scouring the bird-ledges clean and breaking through bridges and tunnels of rock where no gap had existed before . |
| 10 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 11 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 12 | We have to think a hundred years ahead , not just for the next year or two . |