Example sentences of "[prep] nearly [art] hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 2 | Er approximately eight hundred hectares I think , and I suppose the cynical amongst us might might say what has the allocation of of nearly a hundred hectares of land adjacent to the A one , some of which is in in greenbelt , what has that got anything to do with the er vitality of of Leeds commercial centre or urban regeneration , but we accept that 's a that 's a matter for Leeds , we not objecting to their proposals . |
| 3 | Base surges spread out radially in all directions from the base of the rising ash column , rolling down the volcano at speeds of nearly a hundred kilometres per hour and covering an area of more than 230 square kilometres . |
| 4 | ‘ See here , ’ said the doctor doubtfully , ‘ it is n't usual for a man to walk into an empty house at four in the morning and come out with another man 's cheque for nearly a hundred pounds . ’ |
| 5 | She has welcomed the oppressed and disowned of the world to this paranoiac dreamscape for nearly a hundred years . |
| 6 | At the north end of the aqueduct is the Leawood Pumping Station , where a beam engine installed in 1849 pumped water from the river to the canal for nearly a hundred years . |
| 7 | This was folded and stored in a paper envelope for nearly a hundred years , and the creases make it very unlikely we shall ever be able to play it on an original machine . |
| 8 | He built a prototype which for nearly a hundred years lay in the Smithsonian Institution , Washington DC . |
| 9 | Assuming there is no change in the relevant law , the data on which the aggregated tables is based will not be available for nearly a hundred years , and we have to keep this timescale in mind when planning for the future . |
| 10 | In early April 1946 U Sein Ywet and I did a seven-days tour in the Delta in which we visited two towns and ten villages , listening to government officers , elders , headmen , and representatives from nearly a hundred villages , which convinced me that much more needed to be done for the towns and villages outside Rangoon . |
| 11 | Quite apart from nearly a hundred years of intensive research having failed to demonstrate such a cause of functional psychosis , there is another important reason why it is totally inappropriate to draw on analogy with the neurological diseases proper . |
| 12 | Owned and bred in Ireland by Major Eustace Loder ( she was foaled only two years after Sceptre ( see pages 18–19 ) ) and trained at Newmarket by Peter Purcell Gilpin , she made her racecourse debut in the British Dominion Two-Year-Old Plate at Sandown Park in June 1903 and turned in an electrifying performance to win by an official margin of ten lengths — though some put the correct distance at nearly a hundred yards ! |