Example sentences of "hundred [noun pl] [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 | 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 ? |
| 5 | It 's a couple of hundred acres you want to replant ? " |
| 6 | Out of every hundred drivers they stopped , they had no business to stop 97 . |
| 7 | At four hundred feet he had n't enough altitude from which he could recover if he went into a spin . |
| 8 | At five hundred feet he banked hard and headed for the balloons . |
| 9 | From a hundred feet he raked it from side to side and back again . |
| 10 | At two hundred feet he began firing . |
| 11 | Nine hundred years they were enchanted thus , outcast and fleeing between the land , the sea and the sky ; but at last they found rest . |
| 12 | There Roman time they , well as you know yourself a few hundred years they hope to find er nearly half of the world |
| 13 | So by taking a trip back nearly three hundred years we could say that we have covered the pre-modern world thoroughly enough . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ There was a silly damned bird called the phoenix back before Christ : every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up . |
| 16 | In about two hundred years I 'd be the richest man in Luggnagg . |
| 17 | I think it 'll come but , well , we 're rather impatient I think when you look back over the past hundred years you see some massive erm changes which are quite unprecedented . |
| 18 | And in the last hundred years you 've done nothing but rob , fight , and murder ! |
| 19 | Two hundred years it 's stood there . |
| 20 | And for the next two or three hundred years it was very slow progress in terms of technical development although the industrial revolution came along as we all know . |
| 21 | Of course , the hundred years is only just up for Darwin and not yet up for Freud , depending on when you start the hundred years it makes a . |
| 22 | For four hundred years it was owned by a succession of wealthy aristocrats … the valley , woodland and lakes seen as private possessions for their eyes only . |
| 23 | Built in the year nine O nine , for six hundred years it was the largest enclosed building in the world . |
| 24 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 25 | Well er they 've got erm a hundred places I think . |
| 26 | As I was picked from about a hundred applicants I think I did quite well . |
| 27 | He had no clues to its mystery but those contained in Chant 's letter , and after a hundred readings they were exhausted . |
| 28 | Though I had small scale maps at three inches to a mile for some areas they are not produced for all the Sahara , nor could I have afforded the hundred pounds they would have cost if they had been . |
| 29 | No because we would n't have got that fifteen hundred pounds they had n't agreed to do us a service . |
| 30 | The men stole three hundred pounds he kept in a tin . |