Example sentences of "[verb] [num] hundred [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The campaign waged by both public and hospital staff was one of the biggest in east London 's political history : over seven hundred people at the York Hall , the old boxing venue , twenty thousand signed petitions , a two-hour protest strike and the first-ever hospital work-in , which kept the hospital running for a month and treated eleven hundred emergencies after its official date of closure . |
2 | With this gadget a skilled man could make eight hundred chair legs a week , which he delivered to factories in London and other centres where the complete chairs were assembled , until the rise of High Wycombe itself as the centre of furniture making , early in the nineteenth century . |
3 | A dog breeder has been fined eight hundred pounds for causing a noise nuisance . |
4 | A United Nations relief convoy has evacuated eight hundred refugees from the besieged Moslem town of Srebrenica . |
5 | Every year , female free-tailed bats in Mexico leave their mates and fly eight hundred miles up to the southern United States . |
6 | Right , the production cost is say six hundred pounds , right ? |
7 | Now , clearly if you were paid say six hundred pounds for that and you only did twelve hundred miles , you 're getting fifty P a mile anyway ! |
8 | We want three hundred people by the end of this year because the business we 've already got just waiting to be done in phenomenal . |
9 | Wearing the suit , she weighed three hundred kilos and felt as graceful as a rhinoceros ; as soon as she was outside she 'd feel almost weightless , and the suit 's systems would give her the strength of a robot while hardly affecting the speed and ease of her movements . |
10 | Although the rotational speed of a helicopter is low , say three hundred rpm , the tip speed in forward flight of the up-wind blade becomes supersonic . |
11 | He 's been fined three hundred pounds and banned from the dugout for a year for verbally abusing referee Sandy Roy during a recent match . |
12 | Meanwhile , the Bishop has been fined three hundred pounds by Forest of Dean Magistrates for a speeding offence . |
13 | Roger Pike , who trains point-to-point racehorses , was fined three hundred pounds for permitting unneccessary suffering to a horse from his stables . |
14 | A second defendent , Anthony Gallagher found NOT guilty of the same charge and was fined three hundred pounds for driving without due care and attention . |
15 | Altogether it has three hundred buildings listed as being of architectural and historical interest . |
16 | The prison service is overstretched and to stop the cycle of reoffending and being sent back , the more help , counselling and comfort the betterThe Trust has fourteen hundred prisoners practicing Yoga or meditation . |
17 | Police have interviewed sixteen hundred people — some of them fellow walkers -in their search for the killers . |
18 | I wonder what it is like , living in a building built five hundred years ago ? ’ |
19 | A former vice chairman of governors at a school for disturbed children has been fined nine hundred pounds for importing pornographic material . |
20 | The only Japanese car-maker in Britain which does n't recognise unions has been accused of denying twelve hundred workers their rights . |
21 | If a message can be compressed one hundred times , it can be transmitted in one hundredth of the time , or transmitted at the same speed through a channel with one hundredth of the band width , and it can be stored in one hundredth of the volume of the original . |
22 | why should this person need five hundred pound a month more . |
23 | Erm a thousand poster sites at say five hundred pounds per site would cost half a million . |
24 | But if it 's a reasonable amount , say five hundred pounds , he would merely look at it and say fair enough . |
25 | One po er positions one to four are nearly five hun well say five hundred pound each . |
26 | approximately , you 've got four hundred pound really to play with , approximately four hundred pound left over , say five hundred pound , six hundred for electrical goods . |
27 | Dowty 's already shed fifteen hundred jobs . |
28 | Pigeons taken from their home loft to some place , say one hundred miles to the east , which the pigeons have never visited before , and then released , are capable of finding their way home . |
29 | This man here has one hundred fighting birds … ’ |
30 | Janice proposed five hundred pounds . |