Example sentences of "hundred [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll be a hundred to the pow erm a hundred times a half of itself so fifty . |
| 2 | It 's no good preaching sermons to young people about the value of labour if all they do is to guide a piece of metal into a press and tread on a pedal a hundred times a day … |
| 3 | I think about it a couple of hundred times a day and kick myself for not staying right there . |
| 4 | He had taught the bird to pronounce the name of his lost love , and this name was repeated a hundred times a day . |
| 5 | Now you 'll want to look at your watch a hundred times a day . |
| 6 | They voted the local taxes for the governors ' salaries which might be as high as £2,000 a year ( a hundred times a labourer 's wage , and 40 per cent of the prime Minister 's salary ) , and sometimes they felt governors should earn their salaries by letting the assembly have its own way . |
| 7 | And this it may do more than a hundred times a second in perfect synchrony with the clicks of the calls . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's three hundred times a minute . |
| 9 | It 's not something that we do two hundred times a week , but most of us would like to try . |
| 10 | Pay alimony a hundred times the roll of both dice , return to lower class ! |
| 11 | I ca n't think how many megatons it is but I mean , compared to wh compared to the bombs that the super powers have today they 're literally like erm firing a catapult against a cannon , now , because the they 're so many hundreds of megatons these bombs , these sophisticated bombs that the super powers have now , one bomb is capable of blowing up a city a hundred times the size of Nagasaki now , Hiroshima |
| 12 | Distance equals one hundred times the time . |
| 13 | Something to do with a hundred times the amount is n't it . |
| 14 | ‘ A hundred times the diameter of the Earth , and you do n't call that huge ? ’ |
| 15 | Weight is equal to a hundred times the number of engines . |
| 16 | The weight in kilograms is a hundred times the number of engines we 've got . |
| 17 | The weight of the lorry , see the lorry weighs something itself so its total weight when it 's got its load on is eight hundred plus a hundred times the number of engines on it . |
| 18 | Labour Councillors have set up over a hundred new Council Committee meetings , an extra six hundred meetings a year , and the hundreds of thousands of pounds that is gon na cost the people of , not the community charge payers , not the community charge payers , but those people , the elderly and the handicapped who are looking for services from this Authority , which the Labour Group will say , we ca n't afford to provide cos the Government does n't send us enough money . |
| 19 | The All Wheel Drive Club was started for jeeps and landrovers … now the machines come in all shapes and sizes … there are over a hundred meetings a year … there 's 10 rounds of the British Safari Championship … |
| 20 | I , I mean if , we know how much is outstanding on each one , we know when it 's due to be paid , we know it 's gon na be about eight hundred policies a section , is it , ten thousand ? |
| 21 | Junior doctors across the region are to ballot on industrial action in protest at working up to a hundred hours a week . |
| 22 | Junior doctors are tired … tired of working up to one hundred hours a week , and tired of complaining about it . |
| 23 | He 'd had to work well over a hundred hours a week for weeks on end . |
| 24 | A lot of other people in the thirties agreed : in the early years of the decade over two hundred cruises a year left British ports , and there were others leaving Continental and American ports too . |
| 25 | I E it , it , it 's it 's about a quarter so you , you 're on five , six hundred calories a day . |
| 26 | We 've got four hundred four hundred words a day we calculated we 've got ta do |
| 27 | Twelve hundred words a week , week in , week out , at a rate something in excess of £1 per word — well , not too bad a life , actually , would be the most likely response of those facing the 14th , 15th , 16th … years of Conservative rule in rather more straitened circumstances — if , of course , they were to read his column . |
| 28 | And we worked on this contract for two month , to try it out for him but we were thirty pound a week less , and we had over two hundred slates a day more , on the on this contract . |
| 29 | erm And I 'm very much looking forward to that , on Wednesday I 'm coming and we 're having a promotions day when we 'll let everyone know what we 're doing ; when it 's going to be , where it 's going to be held , and erm give two hundred youngsters the opportunity to try erm the various sports , we do n't just do football now either , we do lots of other sports . |
| 30 | And British Gas have asked us in the particular area to utilise the facilities that are in the area erm to the best , and give two hundred youngsters the opportunity that they might never have had . |