Example sentences of "a hundred [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | From a hundred feet he raked it from side to side and back again . |
| 7 | He had no clues to its mystery but those contained in Chant 's letter , and after a hundred readings they were exhausted . |
| 8 | That only cost sixty pound , I said only , well it 's better than a hundred pounds she said . |
| 9 | At odds of 10-1 he bet a hundred pounds he could complete 200 miles in less than nine hours on horseback . |
| 10 | It 's more than a hundred pounds I bet . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Well er they 've got erm a hundred places I think . |
| 15 | As I was picked from about a hundred applicants I think I did quite well . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But , yeah , that 's about a hundred miles you see , that would be about right , yeah . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | You know , I bet you a hundred dollars you wo n't sleep with me . |