Example sentences of "hundred or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are lucky enough to be living during a warm period ( interglacial ) of this ice age , but our luck can not last forever ; at some time during the next few thousand , few hundred or even just few years the next cold period ( glacial ) will commence unless humanity 's pollution contributes so much to the greenhouse effect that global warming prevents the glaciers from spreading . |
| 2 | Now also , knowing that there 's only just over five hundred or just six hundred members of the Liberal Democrats , in the eight constituencies that comprise our Euro constituency , there will be many benefits that can come off a Euro campaign in terms of membership , in terms of helpers , in in terms of morale and generally raising our profile , just through press contacts and things like that . |
| 3 | Of course if they can find someone on whose sympathy to play , someone who will pay one hundred or perhaps one hundred and fifty pounds then so much the better for them . |
| 4 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |
| 5 | What all this amounts to is a proviso that research based on samples of five hundred , a thousand , or more individuals should not be uncritically accepted as ‘ good ’ research while surveys using small samples , say a hundred or less , are dismissed as invalid . |
| 6 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Their aim was to visit every one of the eight hundred or so families in the parish every year . |
| 11 | Of the six hundred or so communicants , Baxter said he had good hopes for the sincerity of the faith of all but twelve of them . |
| 12 | Face to face meetings with parents and others is usually the best way to communicate but meeting two hundred or so parents on an individual basis to tell them the date of sports day is n't a practical or worthwhile activity . |
| 13 | The three hundred or so grammar schools which existed in the late Middle Ages were mostly local and small . |
| 14 | Built of honey-coloured Cotswold stone , some hundred or so years ago , it had a beautiful matching tiled roof , mottled with a patina of lichen and moss . |
| 15 | In chemical terms , though , the situation is much simpler , since all matter is composed of only a hundred or so elements . |
| 16 | These are people who are so obsessed with the first decade of this new century that they 're inclined to forget for a moment the nineteen hundred or so years that went before it . |
| 17 | We also know that there are over 3,000 centenarians now in Great Britain , compared with a couple of hundred or so in 1950 . |
| 18 | The shoals could still number a hundred or so . |
| 19 | Routine administrative functions were sited in the free-standing towns and cities within a hundred or so miles of London . |
| 20 | It had a shelter for a hundred or so , and I spent the rest of the night there . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Different numbers and arrangements of these particles form the hundred or so elements which occur on our planet . |
| 24 | In America Dr James Tyler Kent was appalled by such modifications , feeling that many of the practices which Hahnemann had campaigned against had crept into the practice of homoeopathy itself in the one hundred or so years since its rediscovery . |
| 25 | The 1841 census lists five hundred or so inmates , including Elizabeth Titford , who is described as being a needleworker . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But as they checked their tiny forces — a hundred or so ashore — the first German Stosstruppen , Thrust Troops , were moving into the docks over the bridges of the submarines ' basin 's southern lock ( 'D' ) at 0150 hours . |
| 28 | Amongst the couple of hundred or so there , were some twenty or thirty men . |
| 29 | Pete is actually prepared to import a hundred or so himself if necessary . |
| 30 | Thus , while a hundred or so European species have been recorded as hosts , only a handful are used regularly . |