Example sentences of "a hundred [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , at the Gala Night of a Hundred Stars evening at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton , a mime artist came on stage and found himself struggling with a sticky audience . |
| 2 | With its customary fury the northeast monsoon flung its nightly torrent of rain onto the close-packed ranks of rubber trees sprouting from the red-brown jungle soils of the Vi An plantation a hundred kilometres north of Saigon . |
| 3 | A single Troy ounce can be beaten into a sheet a hundred feet square and only of an inch thick . |
| 4 | Five , one , two , three , forty , five , put for winnings a hundred times roll of both dice |
| 5 | But basically a gilt has got a fixed rate of , of value at the end and the beginning , so it 's worth a hundred pounds day one , a hundred pounds day you know whatever , h how many days it 's in force , if it 's a five year gilt , it 's worth a hundred , a hundred pounds then . |
| 6 | But basically a gilt has got a fixed rate of , of value at the end and the beginning , so it 's worth a hundred pounds day one , a hundred pounds day you know whatever , h how many days it 's in force , if it 's a five year gilt , it 's worth a hundred , a hundred pounds then . |
| 7 | Magistrates fined Jamie Blandford a thousand pounds , a hundred pounds prosecution costs and 179 pounds in compensation after he admitted six charges of taking taxis in London without paying . |
| 8 | Three , a hundred pounds worth of premium bonds . |
| 9 | Within a hundred years Islam was " a mighty empire stretched form the Punjab to the Pyrenees and from Samarkand to the Sahara , " In the authority of the Shahs . |
| 10 | You know if it 's a once in a hundred years event , is it worthwhile providing all the backup equipment you 've got , for all the stations that you 've got . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Erm but er I learnt to write a fair hand , erm without too many flourishes , which er because I was always told that somebody might be looking at this in a hundred years time , or more . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I had gone to a town about a hundred miles north of Rangoon and had spent Christmas night in a village seventeen miles away . |
| 15 | The creation of the appellation Alsace Grand Cru for 25 exceptional vineyard sites in 1983 was a dramatic departure from previous Alsace wine policy , but it recognised what everyone in the region already knew : that there were enormous differences in the wines produced from different sites with varying soils and microclimates , and that the best of these sites compared in quality with those of Burgundy or the German Rhine a hundred miles north . |
| 16 | The plan was to use Independent Companies for raids in the Middle East , and a sixth centre , a remote national park , a hundred miles south-east of Melbourne , was set up to train them . |
| 17 | You do n't necessarily get a better job with a performance spec than you would simply by specifying that you had more cuts because in er in a slow growing year , if you like , the contractor actually gains because he does n't need to cut so many times to comply with a maximum of a hundred millimetres length , whereas if you 've got an eleven level cut you would actually have a continuous length of grass , much shorter , so it would look smarter . |
| 18 | Out of the corner of his eye he could see Maisie , who was now about a hundred yards south of the rest of the school . |
| 19 | The waterfall , however , is a hundred yards downriver and is best reached by walking back along the road for fifty yards to the end of a wall , where a step down in the undergrowth discloses a good path high on the river bank above a deep gorge , the waterfall soon being seen through a canopy of foliage . |
| 20 | A hundred yards east , in Jammet 's famous restaurant , my father pointed out Flann O'Brien scribbling with a pencil on the marble counter . ’ |
| 21 | The sounds had come from a hundred yards east of the dell . |
| 22 | That was a great house , four acres , nearly a hundred yards frontage onto the river , super fishing . |
| 23 | We must have a hundred MPs voting for the closure . |