Example sentences of "[prep] a hundred [noun pl] and " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Their work has withstood the storms of a hundred years and more .
3 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 ) .
4 There was a farm and plantation of a hundred acres and a hospital with fifty beds for in-patients , plus outpatient facilities .
5 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 ?
6 He walked up the main street for a hundred yards and came to a road off on his right labelled Buller 's Hill .
7 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 . ’
8 This lasted on and off , for a hundred years and gave the Korean church over 10,000 martyrs .
9 I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust .
10 This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over .
11 I ca n't help thinking about a hundred films and plays , where the couple smoke afterwards .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Start off with a hundred pounds and add thirty five percent on .
15 The media are aware of this fact , and photographs of Hannah side by side with Her Ladyship featured in a hundred newspapers and more
16 ‘ 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 . ’
17 One can look back in eighty seven when we had that terrible storm and they said well once in a hundred years and then we had a storm very similar I think it is essential we look
18 Lot number twenty eight Lot twenty eight er the white jade bottle there 's the bottle showing a hundred pounds for it , at one hundred pounds at a hundred pounds and ten , twenty one thirty one thirty offered and selling for one hundred and thirty , one forty one forty against you now one forty to my left and selling for one hundred and forty pounds second row , thank you , one forty and the next number is number two one eight , thank you .
19 Lot number seventy four Lot seventy four , the censer there 's the Ming censer showing Lot number seventy four , a hundred for this , at one hundred pounds at a hundred pounds and ten , one twenty , one thirty , at one hundred and thirty I 'm offered and selling for one thirty , all done ?
20 Thank you , Lot number seventy six Lot number seventy six Peking er dishes there 's the Peking dishes , there 's seven of them , we 've got one of them showing seven in the for a hundred pounds one hundred pounds at a hundred pounds and ten , at one hundred and ten pounds , any more at one hundred and ten , twenty , thirty one forty in front , one fifty one sixty , seventy yes ? one eighty , thank you one eighty in front , at a hundred and eighty pounds and selling for one hundred and eighty .
21 Lot number one three four , one three four is the pipe there 's Lot number one three four at eighty pounds , at eighty , eighty five , ninety five at a hundred pounds and ten one ten one twenty , thirty one thirty , forty , fifty one fifty , one sixty offered I 'm offered a
22 Killion opened fire at a hundred yards and emptied his drum in a series of probing bursts that brought a bloom of flames to the aircraft just as he skimmed over it .
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