Example sentences of "a [adj] hundred [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try placing the unit under load ( a current of a few hundred mA would be useful ) and see if the voltage drop across R13 increases . |
| 2 | Consequently , the surface is peppered with impact craters , many of which date back to within a few hundred Ma of the Moon 's formation . |
| 3 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 4 | But anyway , the whole problem we face now is how to do more samples because we 're only looking at intercourse in the cores of , say , a thousand or two thousand year spacing , we 've got to get down to a few hundred year spacing to really see some of the changes in climate that we know have gone on . |
| 5 | A sample of a few hundred census records is often just as useful as a database of several thousands . |
| 6 | Telomere function seems to be fully defined within a few hundred base pairs in ciliates or yeasts and thousands base pairs in vertebrates . |
| 7 | Pure beef cattle are rare : there is a handful of Aberdeen Angus , about 2,000 Hereford , 3,000 Charolais , 800 Simmental and a few hundred Limousin , Scottish Highland and Blonde d'Aquitaine . |
| 8 | The finished string of a few hundred amino acids will , in a suitable liquid medium at a suitable temperature , fold up to form a three-dimensional globular structure , the active protein . |
| 9 | when people are sitting there and thinking oh yes I 'll have a storage heater , you keep lovely and warm you get your bill at the end , a few hundred pound er |
| 10 | Although the finding of typical , oval , thin-shelled strongyle eggs on faecal examination may be a useful aid to diagnosis , it is important to remember that substantial worm burdens may be associated with faecal egg counts of only a few hundred epg , due either to low fecundity of adult worms or to the presence of many immature parasites . |
| 11 | When I got elected I got elected because the erm roads in this county were in a six hundred year repair cycle . |
| 12 | Welcome back : Still to come on Central South … the problems encountered by a group of abseilers when they tackled a six hundred foot power station chimney . |
| 13 | Eight daredevils have conquered a six hundred foot power station chimney , by abseiling down it for charity . |
| 14 | Well British Steel adopted a somewhat more subtler tactic er they make a strong point of the fact that no money has ever been removed from the scheme despite the presence of a six hundred surplus . |
| 15 | When you 've got a six hundred weight bell going over and over it could pull the steeple down . |
| 16 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 17 | Now it was a three hundred page document er have , have many of the delegates been able to have time to digest it at all ? |
| 18 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 19 | Let's face it a war is the , the biggest single event that can increase technology in the electronics and radars two men on a fucking single budget , two men on something like a three hundred pound a year budget or something silly . |
| 20 | I mean obviously erm a thousand pounds parts and labour is obviously a lot more expensive than a three hundred pound parts and labour . |
| 21 | A gnarled hundred commander named Jenjin produced a snort of disagreement . |
| 22 | And I do n't think there is any realistic way in which it could cope with the flows of a fourteen hundred dwelling new settlement . |
| 23 | Erm , Mr Brighton was was critical of the County Council in just using the residual method to determine the size of the new settlement , er and then in in backing up that justification erm referred to work that is included in in Barton Willmore 's proof , I 've I have read this survey work quite carefully , and my understanding of it is is that erm by un undertaking a survey of settlements in the county , they have established , albeit f f f for information purposes only , a population threshold for a particular type of service , erm , in in the North Yorkshire context , erm the implication I I understand from that is is that that is being used to justify a fourteen hundred figure or or whatever it is to achieve the level of services that would would be required for a a balanced integrated community to use the words for the guidance . |
| 24 | Yeah you can get a sixteen hundred diesel Matt |
| 25 | And a five hundred pound fine for the well off . |
| 26 | It 's a five hundred pound cut ? |
| 27 | So far it 's inspired a five hundred signature petition , infuriated a councillor , and there 's still no solution in sight . |
| 28 | Here , it 's a little bit different , you 've got a five hundred acre holding . |
| 29 | Half a century later , he 's joining a team to follow a fifteen hundred mile wartime escape route from Holland to Gibraltar . |
| 30 | Half a century later , he 's joining a team to follow a fifteen hundred mile wartime escape route from Holland to Gibraltar . |