Example sentences of "[prep] a hundred [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a hundred metres you 've got The Chair , that 's where The Chair is . |
| 2 | He had no clues to its mystery but those contained in Chant 's letter , and after a hundred readings they were exhausted . |
| 3 | They knew that in every list of a hundred subscribers there were one or two with real money , and on them they descended in their raucous , black-gowned hordes . |
| 4 | Because at no metres there 's one post and at the end of a hundred metres you 've got two posts so you got one post more |
| 5 | The Zosers rubbed shoulders with men with a hundred times their income . |
| 6 | How would you have felt if someone with a hundred times your experience had tried to buy into one of your early ventures ? ’ |
| 7 | If we had to send you and it 's a big if , we had to send you another hundred mil further sorry another hundred miles , above a hundred miles we will pay you another five percent . |
| 8 | True , Brian Robinson did get over from a maul on the All Black 's line before the worst happened — although the Australian referee , Sandy McNeill , was unfortunately the only individual within a hundred metres who failed to note the touchdown . |
| 9 | Within a hundred metres he came across the first tank paths , ghost-like trails that appeared to be overgrown now , ever since the Russians had pulled out and taken their exhaust-belching tanks home on low-loader trains . |
| 10 | Other nomads erupted from the deserts of Arabia in the seventh century ; within a hundred years their armies had reached the shores of the Atlantic and the borders of China but , in fascinating contrast to the Huns and Mongols , the Arabs created a new and enduring civilization and founded a faith which today numbers six hundred million adherents . |
| 11 | From a hundred feet he raked it from side to side and back again . |
| 12 | On a hundred occasions I have idled similarly in a deserted croft in the Highlands of Scotland and wondered about the lives that had been lived in it . |