Example sentences of "[art] hundred [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only he had pushed his advantage home the night the Dorking brothers gave their party ( ‘ The Night of the Hundred Cans ' , as it was still known in Wimbledon ) . |
| 2 | Mention the economic and social sequelae , the effect on the Hundred Years ' War when soldiers , too , fell victim … the weakening of England 's hold on territories in France . |
| 3 | Politically , the road ran via numerous conflicts — the Hundred Years ' War , the English Civil War , the French Revolution and the American War of Independence , for example — to the emergence of modern democracy , and through more recent upheavals to the communist alternative . |
| 4 | This is a fortified church , because during the Hundred Years ' War the walls were raised and a chemin de ronde or covered battlement was added all the way round the building , deducible from outside from the row of arched apertures for the defenders set close together under the roof-line , like large pigeon-holes . |
| 5 | In 1333 he rallied the men of the Cinque ports to defend the country during Edward III 's absence in Scotland and through the early stages of the Hundred Years ' War was inevitably caught up in coastal defence . |
| 6 | In France they were strongly fortified till after 1453 , when the Hundred Years ' War ended and the English retired from the soil of France . |
| 7 | Douce 111 is a fifteenth-century manuscript that seems to have remained in France until being obtained by the nineteenth-century collector , Douce , and it has been deduced that the Middleton manuscript was taken as plunder from the French town of Laval during the later stages of the Hundred Years ' War , between March 1428 and September 1429 . |
| 8 | Erm and the reason we set this is that we are erm er the er , er we believe that this above average er growth in the in the , erm , er , earnings per share of the company is what shareh increases in shareholder value really depend on and er again to give an example erm , if you take the , the , the , the , the , the F T S E a hundred companies erm , and you do analyses of their er , growth rates and earnings per share you will find that the average growth rate was eleven and a half percent and ours er , was er , twenty , twenty percent so it 's above average remuneration erm , er , er , for above av for above average performance . |
| 9 | My Lord the pleadings bundle runs to almost a hundred pages erm , this is due principally to the fact that there are something like four sets of particulars to statement of claim which have been served over the years er where the plaintiffs have set out their claim in er in detail . |
| 10 | Eight years later , to be precise , she was greeted by screaming crowds and the flash of a hundred photographers ' cameras . |
| 11 | Is the real wage over time so at this point let's just say that 's a hundred , a hundred pounds and this is ten say two , well lifespan is thirty , thirty years and a hundred pounds erm today , today is worth er no |
| 12 | I then proceeded to vandalise nearly a hundred pounds ' worth of golf club . |
| 13 | What about the radar , I understand er it takes three hundred days to produce and a hundred days er is believed to be taken up in travelling from one site to another . |
| 14 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 15 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 16 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 17 | In a hundred years ' time a solitary figure might well be seen on a lonely road gazing down into the valley , wondering about ‘ Little Hintock ’ . |
| 18 | In a hundred years ' time your Fuselis will look as old as they are , not as old as they should be . |
| 19 | Melanie opened her eyes and saw thorns among roses , as if she woke from a hundred years ' night , la belle au bois dormante , imprisoned in a century 's steadily burgeoning garden . |
| 20 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |
| 21 | And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time . |
| 22 | Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts . |
| 23 | Tell him to build a tower out of a hundred elephants ' tusks . " |