Example sentences of "[prep] [art] hundred [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact to judge the book as a whole in determining if it was obscene had generally been the practice in law for the hundred years since the Hicklin case . |
| 2 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 3 | During the hundred years or so after Constantine Christianity could be a passport to office , power , and wealth . |
| 4 | After a hundred miles or so , she came off the motorway to pick up fuel and drink a cup of coffee . |
| 5 | The Museum is on the eastern spit of one of the hundred islands that make up the city of Leningrad , and the spit links two of its six hundred and twenty bridges . |
| 6 | Instead she decided to wander round the house , looking into some of the hundred rooms that Mrs Medlock had told her about . |
| 7 | All the time we were assailed by the noise of a hundred bells and the screams of hawkers and traders who sold everything from a piece of iron to hot chestnuts . |
| 8 | Previously , each initiative — on advanced materials , manufacturing technology , biotechnology , high performance computing , global climate change and science education — was described in a pamphlet of a hundred pages or more that included detailed budgets of what each agency planned to spend . |
| 9 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 10 | Their work has withstood the storms of a hundred years and more . |
| 11 | Really detailed molecular records at a spacing of a hundred years or less will be necessary to predict the climate change in the future and we 'll really need that information if we 're going to live safely on this planet . |
| 12 | No mean bat , he also scored just over 17,000 runs for the county , and did the double of a hundred wickets and a thousand runs seven times ( nine times counting all cricket ) . |
| 13 | There was a farm and plantation of a hundred acres and a hospital with fifty beds for in-patients , plus outpatient facilities . |
| 14 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 15 | Something like ooh nine out of ten maybe more than that perhaps ninety five out of every hundred words that you write down are okay they 're spelt correctly it 's just the awkward ones . |
| 16 | Lot number one O three Lot number one O three for a hundred pounds and ten , twenty one twenty , any more at one hundred and twenty pounds , at one twen anybody else at one hundred and twenty pounds , any more ? |
| 17 | That the cripple lived near the stream there was no doubt because his crutch prints were heavily marked on the path for a hundred paces or so as though he often came there , but beyond that point there were none . |
| 18 | He walked up the main street for a hundred yards and came to a road off on his right labelled Buller 's Hill . |
| 19 | Certainly , it was quite a strenuous walk — though I can say it failed to cause me any real difficulty — the path rising in zigzags up the hillside for a hundred yards or so . |
| 20 | We 've known for a hundred years that there were Roman burials in this area . |
| 21 | Scientific and technological advances will help the world deal with greenhouse gases , but not for a hundred years or so . |
| 22 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |
| 23 | For a hundred years or so before the birth of Jesus , Palestine had been under the rule of the Romans . |
| 24 | The wild boar had been hiding behind a large and actually rather unconvincing bush for a hundred years or so . |
| 25 | As this did not seem adequately to reach them , " In this country , we have only generally had waterborne sewage for a hundred years or so . |
| 26 | ‘ If you 're going to be difficult , ’ Adam said , ‘ I suggest that either you wait for a hundred years or agree to reduce the amount payable , by half . ’ |
| 27 | It is not like Hamburg , where they have had a tournament for a hundred years and people would go out and watch tennis at 7 am , even in the freezing cold . ’ |
| 28 | This lasted on and off , for a hundred years and gave the Korean church over 10,000 martyrs . |
| 29 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 30 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |