Example sentences of "[art] hundred [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm not enduring any more of it ; you can keep the hundred pounds a year , I can earn it dressmaking and trimming millinery . ’
2 The All Wheel Drive Club was started for jeeps and landrovers … now the machines come in all shapes and sizes … there are over a hundred meetings a year … there 's 10 rounds of the British Safari Championship …
3 Junior doctors across the region are to ballot on industrial action in protest at working up to a hundred hours a week .
4 He 'd had to work well over a hundred hours a week for weeks on end .
5 It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year .
6 My brother does a paper round and delivers a hundred newspapers every morning
7 Suddenly there was Anna doing a hundred things a day : the house wide open , parties and picnics and streams of presents .
8 There we walked through the Green Dragon to the force , at a hundred feet the longest unbroken waterfall in England , and known to freeze into a massive ice tube in winter — Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy visited the spot and were impressed by its grandeur , so much so that William , ever the florid poet , wrote ebulliently to Coleridge , describing the visit :
9 It 's no good preaching sermons to young people about the value of labour if all they do is to guide a piece of metal into a press and tread on a pedal a hundred times a day …
10 They voted the local taxes for the governors ' salaries which might be as high as £2,000 a year ( a hundred times a labourer 's wage , and 40 per cent of the prime Minister 's salary ) , and sometimes they felt governors should earn their salaries by letting the assembly have its own way .
11 And this it may do more than a hundred times a second in perfect synchrony with the clicks of the calls .
12 He had taught the bird to pronounce the name of his lost love , and this name was repeated a hundred times a day .
13 Now you 'll want to look at your watch a hundred times a day .
14 It 'll be a hundred to the pow erm a hundred times a half of itself so fifty .
15 They also had to survive the effect of a highly corrosive atmosphere at red heat and a hundred times the atmospheric pressure on Earth , and of course they had to be transparent to infrared radiation .
16 The seed planted in the good soil produced thirty , sixty and even a hundred times the original sowing .
17 Erm put it over a hundred times the eight .
18 Weight is equal to a hundred times the number of engines .
19 The weight in kilograms is a hundred times the number of engines we 've got .
20 The weight of the lorry , see the lorry weighs something itself so its total weight when it 's got its load on is eight hundred plus a hundred times the number of engines on it .
21 A hundred times the diameter of the Earth , and you do n't call that huge ? ’
22 Something to do with a hundred times the amount is n't it .
23 Pay alimony a hundred times the roll of both dice , return to lower class !
24 I ca n't think how many megatons it is but I mean , compared to wh compared to the bombs that the super powers have today they 're literally like erm firing a catapult against a cannon , now , because the they 're so many hundreds of megatons these bombs , these sophisticated bombs that the super powers have now , one bomb is capable of blowing up a city a hundred times the size of Nagasaki now , Hiroshima
25 As for Selene , she was left a hundred pounds a year so long as she continued under her sister 's direction .
26 So South West is is a hundred pounds a year more than ours .
27 Full fees were a hundred pounds a year and erm the Education Department ha had assessed my father 's contribution towards the fees at six shillings a week which was about fifteen pounds a year .
28 Even if we did something like jumble sale clearance , and get people 's old clothes , you could sell that for about a hundred pounds a ton .
29 But even that can be a hundred pounds a week — still too much for many .
30 Now the Child Support Agency says he 'll have to pay a hundred pounds a week .
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