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

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1 A year ago they would have replied in kind ; now from a hundred throats came the new cry : ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ with if anything even greater fervour .
2 To cut a long short story ( ‘ yes , please ’ from a hundred throats ! ) , just before 11.30pm , victory was ours .
3 Perspiration poured from a hundred brows — though it was snowing steadily outside — as an official declared : ‘ We ask you to tell the world about Petr Uhl .
4 From a hundred feet he raked it from side to side and back again .
5 Heseltine was able to announce that he already had assurances of support from a hundred MPs when he formally declared his intention to contest the leadership .
6 Miss Dunstable surveyed this evidence of — to her mind — most proper domestic industry , from a hundred yards away , on the footpath to her favourite walk , and made up her mind on the side of tolerance .
7 I presently see a figure approaching from a hundred yards off , up the middle of the street : a tall young woman , in a close white cap , and a short frock of lilac cotton , and coarse sack-cloth apron , and strong boots .
8 The sounds had come from a hundred yards east of the dell .
9 Crooked stove-pipe chimneys sprouted from a hundred roofs , and families could be seen talking animatedly in rows of caravan windows .
10 Melanie opened her eyes and saw thorns among roses , as if she woke from a hundred years ' night , la belle au bois dormante , imprisoned in a century 's steadily burgeoning garden .
11 Again the densities that I was getting back from them varied considerably , from a hundred workers per hectare on some
12 Lambert glimpsed a flickering of muzzle-flames from a hundred machine-guns , and heard the deft tug of bullets speckling his machine , with sometimes a spang ! as a round struck metal .
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