Example sentences of "a hundred [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | Eight years later , to be precise , she was greeted by screaming crowds and the flash of a hundred photographers ' cameras . |
2 | I then proceeded to vandalise nearly a hundred pounds ' worth of golf club . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
6 | 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 ’ . |
7 | In a hundred years ' time your Fuselis will look as old as they are , not as old as they should be . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |
10 | And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time . |
11 | Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts . |
12 | Tell him to build a tower out of a hundred elephants ' tusks . " |