Example sentences of "only a hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It responded slowly , now only a hundred feet below the Ilyushin . |
| 2 | The pilots in the airliner above were unaware of the drama being enacted only a hundred feet below them . |
| 3 | ‘ I buy two ounces and I save only a hundred pounds . |
| 4 | As we look in closer to the centre , we expect the stars to be more closely packed together , and in this central pan of IRS 16 the infrared radiation comes from thousands of ordinary stars packed into a region only a hundred times larger than the Solar System . |
| 5 | That 's harmless when it 's first passed on , but which , in only a hundred generations , evolves into a deadly virus . |
| 6 | For a group of young nuns to challenge the full authority of the Chinese state , visibly expressed by the tin-hatted martial-law troops standing guard only a hundred metres away , is an act of calculated defiance . |
| 7 | The smooth metal slid away from in front of her box-like boots to reveal the surface of the space station , now only a hundred metres below the shuttle . |
| 8 | The ship 's gun BOOMED ! and the shot fell only a hundred metres away . |
| 9 | The wood was only a hundred paces away , but the sweat-streaked mare was blown and slowing . |
| 10 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 11 | They were only a hundred yards away now , still as a cobra before it strikes . |
| 12 | The top of Bugmore Lane was only a hundred yards from the Church , so gardeners carefully timed their own comings and goings not to coincide with the comings and goings of the congregation . |
| 13 | The river 's only a hundred yards wide there . ’ |
| 14 | They did not go into the forest or , at the most , only a hundred yards or so . |
| 15 | Lesser Bayonne is bourgeois and compact , and contains the town 's two unexpectedly good museums , the Musée Bonn at and the Musée Basque , which are only a hundred yards apart . |
| 16 | The German trenches were less than two hundred yards ahead , with our front trench only a hundred yards from theirs . |
| 17 | Her whole idea of the world 's work was derived from what she observed there and had little in common with the circulation of the great city which toiled on only a hundred yards away . |
| 18 | And you 're only a hundred yards from her . |
| 19 | Only a hundred years ago , costmary could be found in almost any cottage garden , in fact in most gardens throughout Britain . |