Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] a hundred " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in 1967 E. R. Leach made exactly the same point on the BBC , there was a national uproar with bishops and pundits of all kinds fulminating in the newspapers against the impiety of the idea , in much the same way that they had done against Engels almost a hundred years before . |
| 2 | A Frenchman , E.A. Martel , made the first descent of Gaping Gill nearly a hundred years ago in 23 minutes using caving ladders ; the petrol-driven winch drops visitors in less than 90 seconds ! |
| 3 | It is moored here in the middle of the Thames about a hundred yards inside the Barrier . |
| 4 | It accelerated more than anticipated with the result that the capsule landed in the Atlantic over a hundred miles away from the target area . |
| 5 | It took the industrious Lowndes nearly a hundred lines to explain it all . |
| 6 | The minibus passed Rose about a hundred yards from the crematorium . |
| 7 | Bears became extinct in the Austrian Alps over a hundred years , but in the 1970s a male bear from Yugoslavia wandered across the border to take up residence in the southeast province of Styria . |
| 8 | Well I wo n't lose much money on this Sierra about a hundred quid |
| 9 | In Northern Iraq over a hundred thousand Kurdish children are still unable to return to their homes after being forced to flee Saddam Hussein 's army . |
| 10 | Caught down the leg side , he was n't going to walk , he waited for umpire Bird , and that 's the Lawrence delighted with England of course too , DaSilva , caught down the leg side , a good catch there by Russell and Sri Lanka now a hundred and nineteen for four and DaSilva is out caught Russell , bowled Lawrence for eighteen . |
| 11 | The firm began production in Abingdon over a hundred years ago . |
| 12 | But it so happens that we can compare the situation during the years 1070 to 1123 with a similar train of events at Canterbury just a hundred years later . |