Example sentences of "[prep] a hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a hundred lines of the coarsest prose the final juxtaposition shows a gap of ethos as wide as that between Troilus and Pandarus , but more threatening : Her intended customer is the nobleman Lysimachus , and to begin with Marina speaks a docile prose with the bawds ( IV.vi.51ff. ) , continuing with aggressive word-play in order to shame Lysimachus into naming the vice he is engaged upon ( 66–91 ) . |
| 2 | So there 's there we are , and these are ten metres each time , so ten , twenty , thirty and let's say after after a hundred metres fifty forty . |
| 3 | After a hundred metres you 've got The Chair , that 's where The Chair is . |
| 4 | He had no clues to its mystery but those contained in Chant 's letter , and after a hundred readings they were exhausted . |
| 5 | After a hundred years of true blue Conservative control , the electors decided they wanted a change . |
| 6 | Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin . |
| 7 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 8 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 9 | But I think I 'd actually like to support that idea , I think we ought to er er write back to them and say it 's a splendid idea , erm let's have more of it and and thank you to the local government commission for s er seeing to this after a hundred years . |
| 10 | After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean . |
| 11 | After a hundred miles or so , she came off the motorway to pick up fuel and drink a cup of coffee . |
| 12 | After a hundred yards , I ask , ‘ Different ? |
| 13 | A mock ‘ Petition of the Pawnbrokers ’ said the petitioners who were in the business of lending small sums on pledges were not legally justified in charging more than five pounds for the loan of a hundred pounds for a year . |
| 14 | A bursary of a hundred pounds , yes . |
| 15 | Lot number thirty two Lot thirty two , the lacquer brushes there we are , there 's the lacquer brushes , I 've got two offers of a hundred pounds for them one hundred pounds in two places , at one hundred and ten , one twenty , thirty , forty going on ? |
| 16 | But it 'll cost something in the region of a hundred pounds to replace a set of tyres . |
| 17 | Though he was an adequate mariner , he was by no means an expert fisherman , being the sort of man who makes more conversation than profit from his catches ; but after a trip across to Plymouth early in the new year , he returned looking exceedingly pleased with himself , dressed in finer clothes than were often seen on the Polruan side of the Fowey , and full of the news that he intended to commission John Knollys to build him a bark of a hundred tons . |
| 18 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 19 | The only artist I know that brings to mind that I think is absolutely brilliant is David Sheppard , You got a print on his works and its only one of a hundred prints , and even his prints are worth about a thousand pounds . |
| 20 | The view from the summit is far reaching , extending over half of Scotland and a confused jumble of a hundred peaks to the islands of the Hebrides . |
| 21 | All the time we were assailed by the noise of a hundred bells and the screams of hawkers and traders who sold everything from a piece of iron to hot chestnuts . |
| 22 | Particularly when when the City Council themselves are promoting in the region of a hundred hectares of of development adjacent to the A one well well outside the city . |
| 23 | But we 're looking for something well in excess of a hundred hectares outside the city boundaries and essentially in the greenbelt . |
| 24 | And a report that a Polish plane has conducted the first ever direct evacuation from Kuwait of a hundred refugees , have further raised hopes here . |
| 25 | The reason we are reminded of these historical episodes , rather than any of a hundred others , comes clear only with the surprising and congested line that closes the quatrains about the Wars of the Roses : ‘ But oblivion , not thy forgiveness , FRANCE ’ . |
| 26 | Eight years later , to be precise , she was greeted by screaming crowds and the flash of a hundred photographers ' cameras . |
| 27 | Unchanged , however , are the environs of the great waterfall at the head of the valley , a scene of awesome natural grandeur where , in a surround of towering limestone cliffs , Hardraw Beck plunges over the lip of a crag in a graceful unbroken leap of a hundred feet . |
| 28 | At the depth of a hundred feet , which is what we will be at , we could easily remain underwater for an hour without any risk of either oxygen poisoning or decompression illness . |
| 29 | of a hundred committees |
| 30 | Also , at the Gala Night of a Hundred Stars evening at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton , a mime artist came on stage and found himself struggling with a sticky audience . |