Example sentences of "[conj] a hundred [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are the high-rise towers around the edge of Newcastle with a motorway fifty or a hundred yards from their windows . |
| 2 | More than a hundred scientists from around the world have gathered at St John 's College , Oxford , for a major conference . |
| 3 | For the next three hours the motorbike led them a nightmare chase over more than a hundred kilometres of mountain roads that were often little more than channels covered by scree and loose gravel , furrowed by rain-water and ridged by surfacing strata of rock . |
| 4 | I had fewer than a hundred rounds for the gun which I kept solely as a deterrent for those remote places where cruising yachtsmen are seen as plump victims , ripe for pillaging , and the Webley offered me good protection for , though the gun was over seventy years old , it was massively built and frighteningly powerful . |
| 5 | More than a hundred members of the legislature are simultaneously part of the executive and they provide a large phalanx of obedient support for cabinet initiatives . |
| 6 | Officers investigating the murder say they 've had more than a hundred calls from the public offering information . |
| 7 | Claims lawyer Leslie Perrin is wading through more than a hundred cases of people who say they 've fallen victim to the virulent chryptosporidium bug and he believes that 's just a small percentage of the number who could eventually seek damages . |
| 8 | Before I were yeah , she was on , on war work you see on the hand grenades , that was on the , on the ground floor , of course there were a lot of old cottages er the one at the end , and erm there was something about those oh when , when we did erm er when we did erm locks for the erm hotels there were called , they used to say no they used , there would be about a hundred keys for the guests who clocked in for the er for the hotel and they would each be given a key to the same lock you see , and they used to call those keys to pass , sometimes there was more than a hundred keys to one lock but er wait for the bell or |
| 9 | I will not suppose them guilty of a direct intention of striking us , particularly if they had any idea of the danger of such a proceeding , for the cliff rose much more than a hundred feet above us , and even a very small stone would have fatal effect by striking the head . |
| 10 | The plane , or the source of the dense column of smoke , was now less than a hundred feet above the water . |
| 11 | He swung that way , no more than a hundred feet above a path , watching forward for trees and obstructions . |
| 12 | The men were working on a maintenance gantry suspended beneath the bridge when the gantry collapsed throwing the men more than a hundred feet into the river below . |
| 13 | The sea had become a green-black pool spread with foam less than a hundred feet in circumference in which Trent steered by instinct . |
| 14 | During their stay on the plantation more than a hundred coolies in Village Number Three had died of fever and malnutrition , or had committed suicide but there had never been a death among their immediate neighbours . |
| 15 | We 've got to have more than a hundred lights on the tree otherwise it 's not properly lit . |
| 16 | Well I 've switched my office phone over and , well they actually wrote to me , but I 've switched mine over to this er discount , if you do more than a hundred pounds worth a quarter . |
| 17 | ‘ But Frank , ’ said Bathsheba miserably , ‘ do you realize you 've lost more than a hundred pounds in a month with this awful horse-racing ? |
| 18 | The Authority is permanently closing more than a hundred beds around the county . |
| 19 | Less than a hundred klicks from Spiderglass Southern , out on the ice-desert . |
| 20 | Many rabbits spend all their lives in the same place and never run more than a hundred yards at a stretch . |
| 21 | Then there are some pathetic , weedy looking swots , inadequately equipped and unsuitably dressed , in gaberdine raincoats and Oxford shoes , unwieldy packs all done up with string , who look as if they have never walked farther than a hundred yards at any time in their lives . |
| 22 | Less than a hundred yards from the wall they swerved and re-grouped for a charge as the infantry swarmed up behind them . |
| 23 | He was on the southern side of the narrow spit of Meer 's Point , no more than a hundred yards from the place where he 'd killed Tom Carey . |
| 24 | The carrot-shaped Attic peninsula dangles into the Aegean towards the Cyclades islands ; there are more than a hundred miles of hospitable Attic coastline , with plenty of good harbours from Skala Oropou in the north-east , past Laurion , just mentioned , round Sounion with its dockyards . |
| 25 | There was , he calculated , seldom less than a hundred miles between himself and the people he loved . |
| 26 | They were dismayed when news came that he was as close as Manz , less than a hundred miles from Addis Ababa , harrying the district with a vast army . |
| 27 | Now he faces the prospect of having to go to a school more than a hundred miles from his home . |
| 28 | It 's it 's more than a hundred miles from us . |
| 29 | A Lufthansa jet with more than a hundred passengers on board hijacked by a gunman in Frankfurt has flown to New York . |
| 30 | John Byrne , in The Headhunters , describes the British Steel search in detail : more than a hundred candidates from Europe , North America , South Africa and Australia were interviewed over the course of ten months . |