Example sentences of "[prep] about [art] hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | radiation has a range of about a hundred metres in air and is stopped by about five centimetres of lead or concrete . |
| 2 | To see reindeer in a natural setting visit the Cairngorms where there 's a herd of about a hundred animals . |
| 3 | Now he was criticising the discipline of the men of Tulagai 's personal guard : a force of about a hundred men which was maintained by every one of the Kha-Khan 's grandsons . |
| 4 | We were to mount a dummy attack on the R.A.F. airfield at Heliopolis , just outside Cairo , a distance of about a hundred miles across open desert … . |
| 5 | It had appeared in Caxton 's edition of Voragine 's The Golden Legend ( 1483 ) and in Wycliffe 's translation of about a hundred years before ; but the sobriquet is reserved for the Geneva version of the Bible , first printed there by Rouland Hall in 1560 . |
| 6 | So it was a , a , a firm of about a hundred years standing at that time . |
| 7 | Erm we have twenty people in , in a group and we go around and ask then how much post school technical and professional training they 've had , we would come out with an average group of a total of about a hundred years of post school professional and technical training . |
| 8 | Er no we do n't not really because at this stage now as you said there 's so many good standards out there you we would every year we would start off with about a hundred titles , work our way down to maybe fifty down to thirty and we 'd end up recording about in fact this year we recorded thirty six songs and out of that we picked twenty two for the |
| 9 | The survey will be carried out using a questionnaire in interviews with about a hundred MPs , chosen to represent the main grouping within parties , and ten Peers who have shown interest in welfare issues . |
| 10 | The ground heaved for about a hundred metres , more turf broke through and the smell increased . |
| 11 | Even if we did something like jumble sale clearance , and get people 's old clothes , you could sell that for about a hundred pounds a ton . |
| 12 | These coins give no immediate clues as to their place of minting or indeed their date , for similar coinage in the name of Alexander continued to be made on a large scale for about a hundred years after his death . |
| 13 | For about a hundred years following the publication of Lamarck 's book , the common dog-whelk was known as Purpura lapillus ( L. ) -the brackets to show that Linnaeus had described his type under a different generic name . |
| 14 | It 's only worth about a hundred pounds . |
| 15 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 16 | As I was picked from about a hundred applicants I think I did quite well . |
| 17 | Erm , the consequence of that is that at conception the sex ratio in the white U S population is about a hundred and twenty males to about a hundred females . |
| 18 | Now it 's down to about a hundred words . ’ |
| 19 | That was the position taken by pretty nearly all men of intelligence from the earliest historical times down to about a hundred bears ago . |
| 20 | At about a hundred yards , the car came to a halt . |