Example sentences of "[art] hundred or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 2 | Different numbers and arrangements of these particles form the hundred or so elements which occur on our planet . |
| 3 | Moving swiftly on he coined the phrase ‘ objectware ’ to refer to the hundred or so third-party objects that can be bought off the shelf to run in the NeXT environment . |
| 4 | I tried to restore my word processor program and the hundred or so files , but after restoring the first disk , the program stopped , giving the error message , ‘ Unable to find path ’ . |
| 5 | Such approaches , of course , were ordinarily difficult to resist , for a house never knew when royal gratitude might be of value to it in some application of its own or in some lawsuit ; a number of larger houses , like Bury St Edmunds in 1303 , even found themselves accommodating more than one royal corrodian ; furthermore , the recipients of these requests ranged far outside the hundred or so houses of which the king was patron . |
| 6 | This particularly applied in the hundred or so religious houses of royal foundation but by the early fourteenth century the king was extending the custom to the newly elect of other institutions ; not less frequently he requested a corrody ( or board and lodging ) for an ageing royal clerk or household servant . |
| 7 | Half of all personal income is exempted from taxation as a result of the hundred or so tax allowances , or , more accurately , tax benefits . |
| 8 | Most of the hundred or so men who were waiting with Burun had dismounted , but their st'lyan stood heads up , waiting patiently . |
| 9 | Ace opened the first cabinet , scanned the hundred or so labels quickly , selected the most recent crystal and fed it into a reader . |
| 10 | The hundred or so graduate biologists within the Rentokil pest control service represent an investment for future promotion . |
| 11 | The spectators were all either lining the 18th hole or watching the drama on one of the hundred or so TV sets in the Hospitality Units . |
| 12 | The Front Line peace camp was not difficult to find , mainly because of the hundred or so handwritten signs ( most on the back of crisp boxes ) saying ‘ Front Line ’ with a badly drawn arrow , which had been threaded into the wire perimeter fence . |
| 13 | On the success or failure of this part of the operation would depend the lives of the hundred or more ordinary inmates of the building , because whether or not Control was successfully captured , phase three , an all-out assault by the remainder of Springfield 's troops would be launched . |
| 14 | The League had already declared that it would boycott the investiture and , when he stood up to speak , a hundred or so extremists began shouting and jeering , and dozens had to be dragged off by the police before he could be heard . |
| 15 | Lineages also contributed to the expenses of funerals : members made a collection toward the cost of feeding the guests ; if the dead person was a well known and respected man , the household might have to provide two meals a day and continual tea for up to a week for a hundred or so visitors ( who sometimes brought a contribution of a sheep or tea or sugar ) . |
| 16 | In chemical terms , though , the situation is much simpler , since all matter is composed of only a hundred or so elements . |
| 17 | The shoals could still number a hundred or so . |
| 18 | Routine administrative functions were sited in the free-standing towns and cities within a hundred or so miles of London . |
| 19 | It had a shelter for a hundred or so , and I spent the rest of the night there . |
| 20 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 21 | He thought people still enjoyed the simple retelling of the key mysteries of the faith , stories they knew and loved , and seeing a hundred or so Christians joining together in such a project could only commend the Church . |
| 22 | In skirmishes on the rugged Norwegian mountains made dangerous by an early thaw , these companies screened the Allied operations a hundred or so miles to the north around Narvik . |
| 23 | But as they checked their tiny forces — a hundred or so ashore — the first German Stosstruppen , Thrust Troops , were moving into the docks over the bridges of the submarines ' basin 's southern lock ( 'D' ) at 0150 hours . |
| 24 | Pete is actually prepared to import a hundred or so himself if necessary . |
| 25 | Thus , while a hundred or so European species have been recorded as hosts , only a handful are used regularly . |
| 26 | In contrast , residual vision in humans is usually tested with relatively fine stimuli presented for a hundred or so milliseconds . |
| 27 | Later , when E.L.T. Mesens offered them his fabulous collection , which included a hundred or so works by Magritte , thirty by Max Ernst and twenty Dalís , asking only that the exhibition areas should bear his name , the directors were equally negative . |
| 28 | Firstly let me say that I do n't climb much these days — about a hundred or so routes a year , mostly soloed and always in trainers . |
| 29 | Again and again this arching leap is performed until a hundred or so eggs are fixed in an even carpet on the female 's back . |
| 30 | erm you know the each , I mean , basically we are , we are a world of a hundred or so independent sovereign states and each sovereign state can do what it wishes within its territory with the exception of Iraq of course |