Example sentences of "a hundred or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The League had already declared that it would boycott the investiture and , when he stood up to speak , a hundred or so extremists began shouting and jeering , and dozens had to be dragged off by the police before he could be heard . |
| 2 | Lineages also contributed to the expenses of funerals : members made a collection toward the cost of feeding the guests ; if the dead person was a well known and respected man , the household might have to provide two meals a day and continual tea for up to a week for a hundred or so visitors ( who sometimes brought a contribution of a sheep or tea or sugar ) . |
| 3 | In chemical terms , though , the situation is much simpler , since all matter is composed of only a hundred or so elements . |
| 4 | The shoals could still number a hundred or so . |
| 5 | Routine administrative functions were sited in the free-standing towns and cities within a hundred or so miles of London . |
| 6 | It had a shelter for a hundred or so , and I spent the rest of the night there . |
| 7 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 8 | He thought people still enjoyed the simple retelling of the key mysteries of the faith , stories they knew and loved , and seeing a hundred or so Christians joining together in such a project could only commend the Church . |
| 9 | In skirmishes on the rugged Norwegian mountains made dangerous by an early thaw , these companies screened the Allied operations a hundred or so miles to the north around Narvik . |
| 10 | But as they checked their tiny forces — a hundred or so ashore — the first German Stosstruppen , Thrust Troops , were moving into the docks over the bridges of the submarines ' basin 's southern lock ( 'D' ) at 0150 hours . |
| 11 | Pete is actually prepared to import a hundred or so himself if necessary . |
| 12 | Thus , while a hundred or so European species have been recorded as hosts , only a handful are used regularly . |
| 13 | In contrast , residual vision in humans is usually tested with relatively fine stimuli presented for a hundred or so milliseconds . |
| 14 | Later , when E.L.T. Mesens offered them his fabulous collection , which included a hundred or so works by Magritte , thirty by Max Ernst and twenty Dalís , asking only that the exhibition areas should bear his name , the directors were equally negative . |
| 15 | Firstly let me say that I do n't climb much these days — about a hundred or so routes a year , mostly soloed and always in trainers . |
| 16 | Again and again this arching leap is performed until a hundred or so eggs are fixed in an even carpet on the female 's back . |
| 17 | erm you know the each , I mean , basically we are , we are a world of a hundred or so independent sovereign states and each sovereign state can do what it wishes within its territory with the exception of Iraq of course |
| 18 | So were as many as a hundred or so other females and now he lies surrounded by them , on guard and ready to do battle with any other male that tries to raid his harem . |
| 19 | But if the gazelle grazes in a herd of a hundred or so , its chances of survival are dramatically better . |
| 20 | Valladolid , Salamanca , Toledo , and Segovia were administrative and ecclesiastical capitals , glorified market towns with hat and soap factories , a hundred or so looms , flour mills , and brickyards . |
| 21 | I think he bowled a hundred or so deliveries for me before I got the images right . |
| 22 | On other , more inclusive counts there were not a hundred or so nationalities in the USSR ( the 1989 census recorded 128 ) but as many as 400 , or even 800 . |
| 23 | Except to say that women 's entry into education generally was conceded reluctantly and belatedly a hundred or so years ago , long after the rules had been established and the parameters had been set . |
| 24 | The field of study is a local community ; perhaps just a hundred or so individuals , seldom many more than 2000 . |
| 25 | Down on Eagle Creek a hundred or so lit craft bob decoratively like candles in a Japanese water bowl . |
| 26 | A hundred or so houses sit on log stilts . |
| 27 | You 're going to stand up in front of a hundred or so of your closest friends and tell them your deepest , most private thoughts . ’ |
| 28 | It was only when I was actually up there and the music had stopped , and I found myself looking down at a hundred or so expectant faces , that I remembered the magnitude of the task in front of me . |
| 29 | What all this amounts to is a proviso that research based on samples of five hundred , a thousand , or more individuals should not be uncritically accepted as ‘ good ’ research while surveys using small samples , say a hundred or less , are dismissed as invalid . |
| 30 | These fish in the 1lb to 2lb class can be a hundred or more strong in a shoal , and if you begin catching this size of barbel it is likely they will remain in the swim , feeding off and on , for as long as you have bait to keep them interested . |