Example sentences of "after a hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a hundred lines of the coarsest prose the final juxtaposition shows a gap of ethos as wide as that between Troilus and Pandarus , but more threatening : Her intended customer is the nobleman Lysimachus , and to begin with Marina speaks a docile prose with the bawds ( IV.vi.51ff. ) , continuing with aggressive word-play in order to shame Lysimachus into naming the vice he is engaged upon ( 66–91 ) . |
| 2 | So there 's there we are , and these are ten metres each time , so ten , twenty , thirty and let's say after after a hundred metres fifty forty . |
| 3 | After a hundred metres you 've got The Chair , that 's where The Chair is . |
| 4 | He had no clues to its mystery but those contained in Chant 's letter , and after a hundred readings they were exhausted . |
| 5 | After a hundred years of true blue Conservative control , the electors decided they wanted a change . |
| 6 | Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin . |
| 7 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 8 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 9 | But I think I 'd actually like to support that idea , I think we ought to er er write back to them and say it 's a splendid idea , erm let's have more of it and and thank you to the local government commission for s er seeing to this after a hundred years . |
| 10 | After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean . |
| 11 | After a hundred miles or so , she came off the motorway to pick up fuel and drink a cup of coffee . |
| 12 | After a hundred yards , I ask , ‘ Different ? |