Example sentences of "[adj] hundred [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inspired by the martyrdom of Joan of Arc and backed by the forces of Burgundy , the French expelled the English from all their former possessions except Calais , bringing the so-called Hundred Years War to a successful conclusion in 1453 . |
| 2 | Where have historians sought the causes of the so-called Hundred Years War ? |
| 3 | After receiving the evidence , the insurance company offered Susan a few hundred pounds compensation . |
| 4 | Some of them not as high as the non-metals but most of have got to get to a few hundred degrees C before they start . |
| 5 | My mother and I were evacuees in Cumberland , a few hundred miles north . |
| 6 | From the A4067 , a few hundred yards north of the Dan yr Ogof show caves , you make your way , initially quite steeply , to a clear path on the rim of Fan Hir . |
| 7 | ‘ The Gaiety is a few hundred yards west and when I was 10 and I met Brendan Behan there , he suggested I become a writer . |
| 8 | Every few hundred yards teams of Baluchistan workers were sweeping it away , sweeping it back towards the desert which suddenly seemed everywhere . |
| 9 | The Tournament arena was laid out on a flat piece of land in a loop of the Lugton Water , a few hundred yards east of the castle . |
| 10 | So in the past few hundred years Europe has been , as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has suggested , constituted and consolidated as ‘ sovereign subject , indeed sovereign and subject ’ . |
| 11 | He said she 's gon na give you six hundred pounds worth of tickets , you give her six hundred pound cheque . |
| 12 | six hundred bearings pairs . |
| 13 | It calculates that for every 100 hundred trees cut done only nine are planted , and concludes that in some countries fuelwood supplies will soon be exhausted unless massive replanting is undertaken . |
| 14 | Brady was awarded nineteen hundred pounds damages — a reduced sum because he had been , the Judge said , a thoroughly awkward tenant — and because he had to pay Mr Shan his outstanding rent . |
| 15 | We made two hundred and forty five pounds on Thriller of the Year one hundred and nineteen pounds on Tea for Two but that is after we 've made the three hundred pounds donation to Whiston Hospital we made a thousand and eighteen pounds on the panto Wuthering Heights we lost four hundred and nine pounds , but that was basically that we do costume plays and have to hire the erm fixtures and set pieces from Wrightsons or wherever we 're always going to be in this position and I think it 's the tradition of the Garrick that we continue to do them , and I think we have to accept that we may have losses in future on those particular erm things . |
| 16 | All of us , including the critics , have got to sit down and read three hundred pages line by line , to make final judgments , but we 're looking at a programme there of the next decade . |
| 17 | We landed at Tromsø , which is over three hundred kilometres north of the Arctic Circle , in a heatwave . |
| 18 | The consultant 's have put forward proposals which they believe could halve the amount of police time spent on these administrative tasks and which could put the equivalent of up to two thousand three hundred police officers back on the streets . |
| 19 | This was on the north coast of New South Wales , in a place called Kempsey , three hundred miles north of Sydney . |
| 20 | As a result of this misunderstanding , for three hundred years sufferers from gonorrhoea were treated with mercury with all the risks that that entailed . |
| 21 | For fourteen hundred years Hagia Sophia had been a place of worship : it was now debased into an ancient monument , open to the public for a fee . |
| 22 | He spent his five hundred pounds life savings on a deposit and advance rent on a bungalow . |
| 23 | first year of business or your first year of assessment , you made five hundred pounds profit from your business , is that what you 've got in mind ? |
| 24 | We thought we had enough expertise with our our in-house training , without having to go on a separate one thousand five hundred pounds project management course . |
| 25 | Suddenly I say one of the ‘ Stop Checkpoint ’ signs that are ubiquitous in Ulster , but it was outside the Leggykelly , a pub just five hundred yards south of the border . |
| 26 | Five hundred sports grounds would be built in 18 months ; young people would be offered training courses with the army , fire brigades and charities and would be encouraged to join the police . |
| 27 | She was near the east bank of the River , five hundred paces south of the town , lying on a flat white rock where the crocodiles could not get her , though by the time she was discovered by a Medjay patrol at the sixth hour of day when the sun was at its highest , the vultures had eaten her eyes and part of her face , and the flies were so glutted that they could not leave the feast unless they were picked off . |
| 28 | These were strictly extras ; he did n't even trust the IP people not to make a demonstration of some kind ; these were non-Danuese from a couple of malai islands one hundred kilometres north-east . |
| 29 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 30 | In thirteen weeks Alwyn has earned seven thousand one hundred pounds worth of overtime . |