Example sentences of "be a hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're under attack and we 're a hundred metres up . ’ |
| 2 | Let's say erm we forget about all that ten pound early and you owed me a hundred pounds , right , and I say erm forget that , just , just take it away , forget it it 's gone , you 're a hundred pounds better off . |
| 3 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 4 | And there must have been a hundred copies of a pamphlet on the campaign against street trading in animals . |
| 5 | She must have been a hundred miles away , she realised , trying to get her thoughts together . |
| 6 | Churchill had been a hundred miles from London , weekending in the country . |
| 7 | What , then , of life and death in a typical Victorian family , compared with the way things had been a hundred years previously ? |
| 8 | And the same thing applies posts are a hundred metres apart . |
| 9 | ‘ There are a hundred assassins lurking in the bushes , Prime Minister . |
| 10 | Mentally , they are a hundred times stronger . |
| 11 | You must remember that to every ten real connoisseurs there are a hundred ignoramuses . |
| 12 | ‘ There are a hundred ways a firm can get rid of pollution into the river , ’ said an experienced officer , ‘ so long as they do it at the right time . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But there are a hundred referees that take panel games , and two thirds of those are assessed regularly . |
| 14 | ‘ Is n't it possible , though , that the other girl could be a hundred kilometres from here and that this one was dumped here to put you off the scent ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I cried because I knew when I walked out on Ramsay Street , it would be a hundred times more difficult to see my friends , ’ she confessed . |
| 16 | He called it a down-payment and said there could be a hundred times that sum on offer for the right kind of information about Alan Dysart . |
| 17 | Back at the boats , I reflect that if the Grand Canyon dam is ever built , most of what I can see will be a hundred feet under water . |
| 18 | On my first visit to a venue I take photographs , get hold of the plans , make extensive notes — and there will still be a hundred things I 'll miss . |
| 19 | It 's not difficult with small creatures , but with the large ones it 's possible to be a hundred pounds or so out , and an overdose could be dangerous for the animal . |
| 20 | But even that can be a hundred pounds a week — still too much for many . |
| 21 | You 're going to get charged for the amount going through will be a hundred electrons per second times sixty seconds . |
| 22 | However , environments are usually so variable that even if the conditions are good where the animal is now , they probably will not be in a month 's time ; it may then be better to be a hundred miles south . |
| 23 | In this way she lived to be a hundred years old , more or less . |
| 24 | When we , the hearers and readers of the narrative , and Abraham , are told by God that he will have a son by Sarah , we learn that Abraham will be a hundred years old when the child is born and Sarah is already ninety ( 17.17 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Really , ’ sighed Mr Punch when he had got it all off his chest , ‘ from the outrages which have been late perpetrated , one might think that one was living now in London as it used to be a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 26 | It might be a hundred years from now for all I know . ’ |
| 27 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 28 | It 's going to be a hundred limes worse next year when we have to move the whole army . ’ |
| 29 | Do n't you remember look if there were a hundred minutes in an hour that would be two point one two , but there 's not a hundred minutes in an hour are there ? |
| 30 | 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 . |