Example sentences of "in a hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Training hurt and it was always a battle to force myself out , but after six months I was managing sixty miles a week and sometimes doing fifteen miles non-stop in a hundred minutes . |
| 2 | Beneath the monument , in a hundred urns , lie the victims of the battle . |
| 3 | Has everything to be drummed in a hundred times ? |
| 4 | More areas are included in the map where the user is willing to be wrong 10 times out of 100 , but far fewer in that which they are willing to run the risk of being wrong once in a hundred times ; a comparison of the 90 and 99 per cent maps will make this clear ( figs 6.5a and f ) . |
| 5 | The media are aware of this fact , and photographs of Hannah side by side with Her Ladyship featured in a hundred newspapers and more |
| 6 | Indeed , this was a very rare opportunity for all delegates and visitors , as I said , to meet to listen yes , and to hear it first hand about the life and witness of more than three hundred member churches throughout the world in a hundred countries ! |
| 7 | However , the use of a tranquilliser is a last resort , and is most unlikely to be necessary for more than one in a hundred horses . |
| 8 | The British Medical Association says one in a hundred schoolgirls under sixteen is becoming pregnant . |
| 9 | The British Medical Association says one in a hundred schoolgirls under sixteen is becoming pregnant . |
| 10 | No one can be quite I happy in an ill-planned house any more than in ill-fitting clothes , and although the ‘ cut' ’ and ‘ ‘ style , ’ are much , they count for nothing in a garment which pinches and annoys the wearer in a hundred ways … |
| 11 | Hardly anyone over 40 does , though they will have absorbed its influence in a hundred ways , from the design of their daily paper to the styling of the latest television lager ad and the clothes and music their children consume . |
| 12 | ‘ If each of them can just improve a little bit in 10 ways , the team will improve in a hundred ways and that 's not asking a lot of them . ’ |
| 13 | About half of the emigrants and all of the heavy cargo went by sea and by then numerous clippers were prepared to beat regularly from New York to San Francisco in a hundred days . |
| 14 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 15 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 16 | The additional shine will make the nameplate that much easier for your grandchildren to recognise when they see the piece on Antiques Roadshow in a hundred years or so ! |
| 17 | In the winter , locals sit round fireside bars which have scarcely changed in a hundred years . |
| 18 | In a hundred years ' time a solitary figure might well be seen on a lonely road gazing down into the valley , wondering about ‘ Little Hintock ’ . |
| 19 | They now have equipment to make locating whales and chasing them more efficient , but otherwise the method has changed little in a hundred years . |
| 20 | If this package had had to go through national parliaments , it would not have been achieved in a hundred years ! ’ |
| 21 | Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times . |
| 22 | The hatred of science among educated people might , in a hundred years , fade into history : a quaint phenomenon of the 20th century . |
| 23 | ‘ Not in a hundred years , ’ Gloria said . |
| 24 | She would , not in a hundred years , have ever thought for Tom . |
| 25 | The courage the British captain had shown on numerous dangerous patrols into enemy waters and the havoc he had wrought against shipping there was something I could never match in a hundred years . |
| 26 | In A Hundred Years of Solitude we even sense that the writer wants to take us back into childhood , into the time when ‘ the world was … recent . ’ |
| 27 | She knew that these sort of wonders do pop up in the world from time to time , but only once or twice in a hundred years . |
| 28 | In a hundred years ' time your Fuselis will look as old as they are , not as old as they should be . |
| 29 | On the assumption that they would continue to fall at the same rate as in the first half of the decade , it was estimated that the population would be only one tenth of its size in a hundred years time . |
| 30 | The result was to leave London without an elected representative body for the first time in a hundred years , and all the metropolitan areas without an authority responsible for producing an overall strategic plan . |