Example sentences of "[art] hundred or [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such approaches , of course , were ordinarily difficult to resist , for a house never knew when royal gratitude might be of value to it in some application of its own or in some lawsuit ; a number of larger houses , like Bury St Edmunds in 1303 , even found themselves accommodating more than one royal corrodian ; furthermore , the recipients of these requests ranged far outside the hundred or so houses of which the king was patron . |
| 2 | Different numbers and arrangements of these particles form the hundred or so elements which occur on our planet . |
| 3 | The spectators were all either lining the 18th hole or watching the drama on one of the hundred or so TV sets in the Hospitality Units . |
| 4 | I tried to restore my word processor program and the hundred or so files , but after restoring the first disk , the program stopped , giving the error message , ‘ Unable to find path ’ . |
| 5 | Ace opened the first cabinet , scanned the hundred or so labels quickly , selected the most recent crystal and fed it into a reader . |
| 6 | Most of the hundred or so men who were waiting with Burun had dismounted , but their st'lyan stood heads up , waiting patiently . |
| 7 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 8 | A hundred or so houses sit on log stilts . |
| 9 | I think he bowled a hundred or so deliveries for me before I got the images right . |
| 10 | In contrast , residual vision in humans is usually tested with relatively fine stimuli presented for a hundred or so milliseconds . |
| 11 | In chemical terms , though , the situation is much simpler , since all matter is composed of only a hundred or so elements . |
| 12 | Again and again this arching leap is performed until a hundred or so eggs are fixed in an even carpet on the female 's back . |
| 13 | Lineages also contributed to the expenses of funerals : members made a collection toward the cost of feeding the guests ; if the dead person was a well known and respected man , the household might have to provide two meals a day and continual tea for up to a week for a hundred or so visitors ( who sometimes brought a contribution of a sheep or tea or sugar ) . |
| 14 | On other , more inclusive counts there were not a hundred or so nationalities in the USSR ( the 1989 census recorded 128 ) but as many as 400 , or even 800 . |
| 15 | The field of study is a local community ; perhaps just a hundred or so individuals , seldom many more than 2000 . |
| 16 | The League had already declared that it would boycott the investiture and , when he stood up to speak , a hundred or so extremists began shouting and jeering , and dozens had to be dragged off by the police before he could be heard . |
| 17 | He thought people still enjoyed the simple retelling of the key mysteries of the faith , stories they knew and loved , and seeing a hundred or so Christians joining together in such a project could only commend the Church . |
| 18 | Routine administrative functions were sited in the free-standing towns and cities within a hundred or so miles of London . |
| 19 | In skirmishes on the rugged Norwegian mountains made dangerous by an early thaw , these companies screened the Allied operations a hundred or so miles to the north around Narvik . |
| 20 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 21 | Except to say that women 's entry into education generally was conceded reluctantly and belatedly a hundred or so years ago , long after the rules had been established and the parameters had been set . |