Example sentences of "hundred [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At zero four hundred hours they fixed bayonets and at zero four twenty-one the Verey pistol shot a red flame into the sky somewhere behind the lines and the air was filled with whistles blowing . |
| 2 | ‘ Enjoyed our first day serving King and country , ‘ ave we ? ’ asked the duty corporal of his charges , when at twenty-one hundred hours he turned down the gas lights in the barrack room . |
| 3 | On the lower deck in the babel of two hundred voices he would forget himself , and beforehand live in his mind the sea-life of light literature . |
| 4 | She 'll weigh er er I bet she weighs a hundred weight she 'll weigh a hundred weight . |
| 5 | Lot number one three three one three three is the sword rack there 's the sword rack showing for two hundred pounds at two hun two twenty , two forty , two sixty , two eighty , three hundred bid I 'm offered three hundred pounds and ta I shall take it at three hundred pounds , anybody else ? |
| 6 | So he stopped and then it fell , and it fell short of the hundred pound they wanted . |
| 7 | It is a long way , yeah , yeah , but still , I mean if you do n't have a win for a few weeks then you have a hundred pound it 's ha |
| 8 | had a yard there and an old building , that 's where he had , that 's where he operated from and he used to get all this second hand timber demolition timber from Liverpool and Berkenhead and all that and he reckoned then that for every hundred pound he spent on demolition he had a thousand pound back |
| 9 | It is and wherever you quote nine hundred pound you quote them nine hundred pound per year |
| 10 | Every hundred pound you spend you just put spend a quid over the top . |
| 11 | I know you get nothing for a tenner but if you spend hundred pound you can |
| 12 | So I 've been onto the bastards today and I said like twenty one days is up and I 've I 've got like twelve hundred pound you know . |
| 13 | John 's told me to tell you to go and get it , right I said I said Richard coming , for four hundred pound I you 're not coming for it so that 's it oh you think it was pub machine or |
| 14 | But very often I think tabloid journalism is interesting in terms of language because it 's very punchy it 's succinct because i i in some of our terms you might find people into a three minute reader and a thirty minute reader because in attention span and intellectual capacity are quite different but to actually condense something into meaningful short bursts , even if they are politically biased actually requires a certain amount of skill I would suspect the clarity index which I ca n't find is the process that I mentioned the other night where you take erm some people call it the fog index a correct me if I 'm wrong in my figures , but I think it 's a piece of something like two hundred or three hundred words you count the number of suc erm colons and full stops or is it only full stops ? |
| 15 | It 's a couple of hundred acres you want to replant ? " |
| 16 | Out of every hundred drivers they stopped , they had no business to stop 97 . |
| 17 | At four hundred feet he had n't enough altitude from which he could recover if he went into a spin . |
| 18 | At five hundred feet he banked hard and headed for the balloons . |
| 19 | From a hundred feet he raked it from side to side and back again . |
| 20 | At two hundred feet he began firing . |
| 21 | er it 's always been er guaranteed i.e. if a customer was not satisfied , then one hundred percent we will rectify whatever it is they 're not satisfied with . |
| 22 | I agree with you a hundred percent we should try to overcome the problem of lending of that overcome the problems overcome the problems that evolve |
| 23 | Incidentally I was glad that although I did n't feel one hundred percent I was glad that I wandered round Liberties . |
| 24 | When it happens with a train it 's it 's one hundred percent you 're absolutely stuck with the thing . |
| 25 | But erm I du n no there 's some of them were n't prepared to carry on with it , you know these youngsters , there was a lot of 'em they would n't , anyway everybody 's not hundred percent you 're not going to get anywhere with anything . |
| 26 | There 's your hundred percent it 's got to go up by one point seven to a hundred and seventeen percent . |
| 27 | Nine hundred years they were enchanted thus , outcast and fleeing between the land , the sea and the sky ; but at last they found rest . |
| 28 | There Roman time they , well as you know yourself a few hundred years they hope to find er nearly half of the world |
| 29 | So by taking a trip back nearly three hundred years we could say that we have covered the pre-modern world thoroughly enough . |
| 30 | So you could say for exactly a hundred years we 've had a basic law designed to give us rights every time we go shopping . |