Example sentences of "by a hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And towards morning , when the snow turned again to rain , the whole hillside under which they were camped had become furrowed and scoured by a hundred brooks scurrying and leaping downwards into the river valley , till the level of the flood crept up towards their outposts , and its tributaries carried down into it everything movable that came in their way , including some of the hobbled horses , and the wreckage of tents , and drowned men . |
| 2 | Eliot goes on to envisage a future in which applied science replaces each theatre by a hundred cinemas , each musical instrument by one hundred gramophones , each horse by one hundred cheap motor cars , with the result that the population of the whole civilized world speedily follows the lot of the Melanesians . |
| 3 | Well if they 've separated you see you get one on the inside track , one on the outside track and they can be separated by a hundred metres so that there 's one , one side one |
| 4 | times , hold on , forty five divided by a hundred times two hundred |
| 5 | ‘ If the turf had been hard , ’ he said , ‘ we 'd have won by a hundred yards , ’ and then elaborated about Sir Ivor : |
| 6 | The net effect of the Acts of 1918 and 1921 was thus to improve the Unionist position by a hundred seats , not just in that parliament but in every succeeding one too . |
| 7 | By a hundred meters further out |