Example sentences of "[prep] a hundred [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a hundred miles or so , she came off the motorway to pick up fuel and drink a cup of coffee . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Their work has withstood the storms of a hundred years and more . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | There was a farm and plantation of a hundred acres and a hospital with fifty beds for in-patients , plus outpatient facilities . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He walked up the main street for a hundred yards and came to a road off on his right labelled Buller 's Hill . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Scientific and technological advances will help the world deal with greenhouse gases , but not for a hundred years or so . |
| 13 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |
| 14 | For a hundred years or so before the birth of Jesus , Palestine had been under the rule of the Romans . |
| 15 | The wild boar had been hiding behind a large and actually rather unconvincing bush for a hundred years or so . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | This lasted on and off , for a hundred years and gave the Korean church over 10,000 martyrs . |
| 20 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 21 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
| 22 | The next stretch northward for a hundred miles or more showed the variety of the Romanian countryside . |
| 23 | Well , for a hundred miles or an hour , but you did a tenth of a mile in a , a thousandth of an hour . |
| 24 | I ca n't help thinking about a hundred films and plays , where the couple smoke afterwards . |
| 25 | Employees were awarded sums of money between a hundred pounds and fifteen thousand pounds to tackle projects in partnership with national or local voluntary organisations . |
| 26 | Employees were awarded sums of money between a hundred pounds and fifteen thousand pounds to tackle projects in partnership with national or local voluntary organisations . |
| 27 | Start off with a hundred pounds and add thirty five percent on . |
| 28 | Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca . |
| 29 | The media are aware of this fact , and photographs of Hannah side by side with Her Ladyship featured in a hundred newspapers and more |
| 30 | ‘ If each of them can just improve a little bit in 10 ways , the team will improve in a hundred ways and that 's not asking a lot of them . ’ |