Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] a hundred " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yellow eels have been caught in a Scandinavian estuary , tagged and released in another over a hundred miles away . |
| 2 | The carved balconies , some over a hundred feet high , were lined with disintegrating Tau-Taus which gave the very sinister impression of watchful armies of waking dead . |
| 3 | Oh two forty over a hundred , times four . |
| 4 | So you 're working out what your fractions are so forty over a hundred is four times ten lots of four over ten lots of ten . |
| 5 | Twelve and a half per cent 's going to be twelve and a half over a hundred , er , oh , well , we 're going to cancel , but first of all we could go the opposite way , and multiply , just to get rid of this fraction . |
| 6 | Moreover , not very many of their sculptural portraits have survived ( only a few over a hundred for the three centuries after Alexander ) , partly because they were often made of bronze which was readily melted down for re-use . |
| 7 | Well three percent 's just three over a hundred . |
| 8 | Three over a hundred yeah . |
| 9 | Banbury had a completely new suburb significantly called Newland added to the older town between 1250 and 1285 , only a little over a hundred years after it had been first founded , a mark of its success , while Eynsham , also in Oxfordshire , has a neat rectangular block of properties , bisected by Newland Street which dates from 1215 when a charter was acquired for an extension . |
| 10 | okay and we 've got opposite over a hundred and twenty at the moment and we want we just want opposite . |
| 11 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 12 | There are now well Over a hundred such impact structures claimed on earth . |
| 13 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 14 | We 've got , we do n't know how many over a hundred is equal to one over four . |
| 15 | It 's just sixty over a hundred . |
| 16 | Well it just means sixty over a hundred , |
| 17 | On the 22nd Gracey 's forces assisted the French in what , despite what was claimed at the time and subsequently , was an almost bloodless coup by which they occupied the Town Hall and other central points ; and two nights after that about a hundred and fifty French civilians , including many women and children , were massacred by Vietnamese who burst into the Cite Heraud district past indifferent Japanese guards . |
| 18 | How about the ten over a hundred what will that come to ? |
| 19 | And you could write it out as seventy eighty over a hundred and twenty . |
| 20 | Two hundred and then work out thirty five over a hundred of that , |
| 21 | Twenty five over a hundred . |
| 22 | So twenty five over a hundred , okay ? |
| 23 | Twenty five over a hundred is equal to a quarter . |
| 24 | So if we want to find out , and twenty five over a hundred , we 've got the s , it 's a special fraction , and it used to have a special name for it , and we call these percentages , twenty five per hundred , twenty five hundredths , we just say twenty five per cent . |
| 25 | Is seventy five over a hundred . |
| 26 | Right , that looks like the hundred , that 's the sort of left over of the hundred , so it 's just equal to seventy five over a hundred , and you |
| 27 | So it 'd be forty five over a hundred |
| 28 | Er I done the forty five over a hundred , and timesed it . |
| 29 | Sixty four point nine , well sixty five point nought degrees , so sixty five degrees technically , right , that number is sixty five degrees , now , one pi is one hundred and eighty , pi is the same as one hundred and eighty degrees , so if we 've got sixty five degrees what we 've got is sixty five over a hundred and eighty , pi . |
| 30 | Right , and just , just work out what seventeen per cent , just try seventeen over a hundred times four hundred , just to check , see what it comes to , you would n't normally check it . |