Example sentences of "[adv] a hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if we did , we have no divers aboard — well , you and myself apart — trained to work at levels below a hundred feet . |
| 2 | The platform was dead black — an ovoid perhaps a hundred metres long by fifty in circumference . |
| 3 | Even among perhaps a hundred girls in their year , they must have known each other quite well . |
| 4 | The hamlet I live in consists of thirty houses and perhaps a hundred souls and sits immediately astride the River Itchen . |
| 5 | After half an hour , flesh-pink dunes , perhaps a hundred feet high , appeared several miles ahead . |
| 6 | Perhaps a hundred skeletons ? |
| 7 | So a hundred times twenty is twenty hundred , a hundred times seven will gives us what ? |
| 8 | It responded slowly , now only a hundred feet below the Ilyushin . |
| 9 | The pilots in the airliner above were unaware of the drama being enacted only a hundred feet below them . |
| 10 | ‘ I buy two ounces and I save only a hundred pounds . |
| 11 | As we look in closer to the centre , we expect the stars to be more closely packed together , and in this central pan of IRS 16 the infrared radiation comes from thousands of ordinary stars packed into a region only a hundred times larger than the Solar System . |
| 12 | That 's harmless when it 's first passed on , but which , in only a hundred generations , evolves into a deadly virus . |
| 13 | For a group of young nuns to challenge the full authority of the Chinese state , visibly expressed by the tin-hatted martial-law troops standing guard only a hundred metres away , is an act of calculated defiance . |
| 14 | The smooth metal slid away from in front of her box-like boots to reveal the surface of the space station , now only a hundred metres below the shuttle . |
| 15 | The ship 's gun BOOMED ! and the shot fell only a hundred metres away . |
| 16 | The wood was only a hundred paces away , but the sweat-streaked mare was blown and slowing . |
| 17 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 18 | They were only a hundred yards away now , still as a cobra before it strikes . |
| 19 | The top of Bugmore Lane was only a hundred yards from the Church , so gardeners carefully timed their own comings and goings not to coincide with the comings and goings of the congregation . |
| 20 | The river 's only a hundred yards wide there . ’ |
| 21 | They did not go into the forest or , at the most , only a hundred yards or so . |
| 22 | Lesser Bayonne is bourgeois and compact , and contains the town 's two unexpectedly good museums , the Musée Bonn at and the Musée Basque , which are only a hundred yards apart . |
| 23 | The German trenches were less than two hundred yards ahead , with our front trench only a hundred yards from theirs . |
| 24 | Her whole idea of the world 's work was derived from what she observed there and had little in common with the circulation of the great city which toiled on only a hundred yards away . |
| 25 | And you 're only a hundred yards from her . |
| 26 | Only a hundred years ago , costmary could be found in almost any cottage garden , in fact in most gardens throughout Britain . |
| 27 | But this strip of superior vines is very thin , just a hundred metres in parts , as the communal boundary of Cramant hives off most of the vineyards . |
| 28 | He 'd tried to stop a truck which was loaded with stolen aluminium scrap worth just a hundred pounds . |
| 29 | He 'd tried to stop a truck which was loaded with stolen aluminium scrap worth just a hundred pounds . |
| 30 | Joe Asnett 's place is just a hundred yards up the road , and do n't open 'til seven . ’ |