Example sentences of "a hundred [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Erm a hundred metres we want to find the height .
2 Within a hundred metres he came across the first tank paths , ghost-like trails that appeared to be overgrown now , ever since the Russians had pulled out and taken their exhaust-belching tanks home on low-loader trains .
3 After a hundred metres you 've got The Chair , that 's where The Chair is .
4 Because at no metres there 's one post and at the end of a hundred metres you 've got two posts so you got one post more
5 And one in a hundred say they have to use their ‘ feminine charms ’ to get their own way .
6 On my first visit to a venue I take photographs , get hold of the plans , make extensive notes — and there will still be a hundred things I 'll miss .
7 From a hundred feet he raked it from side to side and back again .
8 He had no clues to its mystery but those contained in Chant 's letter , and after a hundred readings they were exhausted .
9 That only cost sixty pound , I said only , well it 's better than a hundred pounds she said .
10 At odds of 10-1 he bet a hundred pounds he could complete 200 miles in less than nine hours on horseback .
11 It 's more than a hundred pounds I bet .
12 She 'll weigh er er I bet she weighs a hundred weight she 'll weigh a hundred weight .
13 It wor even , providing you have n't got a lot of if you 've only got about a hundred people it 's not too bad that cos it , it also creates a bit more atmosphere .
14 So you could say for exactly a hundred years we 've had a basic law designed to give us rights every time we go shopping .
15 I agree with you a hundred percent we should try to overcome the problem of lending of that overcome the problems overcome the problems that evolve
16 Fate decreed therefore that my very first exposure to this unlikely world was as interpreter for the British representative ( a pleasant dairy farmer used to having a hundred cows he knew by name ) at the milk pasteurization subcommittee of the Central Agricultural Control .
17 On a hundred occasions I have idled similarly in a deserted croft in the Highlands of Scotland and wondered about the lives that had been lived in it .
18 Well er they 've got erm a hundred places I think .
19 It is a long way , yeah , yeah , but still , I mean if you do n't have a win for a few weeks then you have a hundred pound it 's ha
20 As I was picked from about a hundred applicants I think I did quite well .
21 Now if I point out that it 's in bold erm and it preempts a question that generally comes up and that is if we er we will pay thirty percent up to a hundred miles one way away from home and er if we had to send you , and it 's a big if I have to say it 's a big if in especially in the medical practice side , if we had to send you more than a hundred miles we will pay another five percent .
22 If we had to send you and it 's a big if , we had to send you another hundred mil further sorry another hundred miles , above a hundred miles we will pay you another five percent .
23 But , yeah , that 's about a hundred miles you see , that would be about right , yeah .
24 Had to laugh yesterday towards the end of er our round , it was really tipping down , misty , fog , could n't see a hundred yards I had this almighty s I said well I 'll let the six iron , I did this almighty swing the ball went one way and the club went right up the top of a tree .
25 You know , I bet you a hundred dollars you wo n't sleep with me .
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