Example sentences of "a [adj] hundred " in BNC.
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| 1 | that 's , that seemed like a total hundred percent that was |
| 2 | Witness a paltry hundred thousand pounds for a new village hall , compared with the one million pounds on the Highfields Community Centre . |
| 3 | However , whether it is a full spin or just an incipient one is academic if the glider stalls a few hundred feet up . |
| 4 | Finally , below a few hundred feet , if no definite field has been chosen there can be little or no choice , and an accident is almost certain to happen . |
| 5 | When the weather is showery , there is always a grave risk of the cloud base lowering to only a few hundred feet , and this can happen within minutes of the rain starting to fall . |
| 6 | I 'd have to take a few hundred and we might get one we both agree on . |
| 7 | ‘ Yeah , ’ it said with relish , ‘ you think you 'll forget about your precious Lucy just because you 're a few hundred miles away ? |
| 8 | She left the Tube at Chalk Farm and walked — it was only a few hundred yards . |
| 9 | In 1979 he published a paper showing that the perception evoked by stimulating the skin or the neural pathway between the skin and the cortex was reported by the subject as occurring a few hundred milliseconds before the cortical ERP was sufficiently complete to generate that perception . |
| 10 | I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years . |
| 11 | American helicopters hovered near the Panamanian Defence Forces headquarters , and US soldiers in combat gear took up positions a few hundred yards away to block a road leading to the canal . |
| 12 | And with the Arc such an established part of the racing scene , Paris will be bursting with Britons this weekend , with just a few hundred going on a punting pilgrimage to Dublin . |
| 13 | Chris Davies , a Parkfield director , said the library makes a profit of ‘ a few hundred thousand pounds annually ’ but its potential is ‘ enormous ’ . |
| 14 | In less than a month , LEP has produced more than 11,000 of them , compared to a few hundred detected in California . |
| 15 | The spray from the falls is so dense that you can not peer into it and you must rely on logic to believe that it is the same water that makes the river that snakes along the gorge a few hundred metres away . |
| 16 | After a few hundred metres the pleasure overcame the apprehension . |
| 17 | A few hundred metres off-shore we congregate so that Tor can explain the best way of going ashore . |
| 18 | By the time we meet Odd-Knut coming back to find us we are only a few hundred metres from the camp . |
| 19 | The Platoon Sergeant loads the necessary extinguishers and fire-fighting equipment into the back of a vehicle and they speed off The accident has occurred a few hundred metres from the Turkish depot in which ammunition is stored for the Force . |
| 20 | A few hundred hotheads urged their comrades to break the police roadblock and march on the Kremlin , but were dissuaded by their leaders . |
| 21 | We 'd go out on the town , hit a few cocktail parties , go dancing , and I 'd drop a few hundred quid on a weekend . ’ |
| 22 | Treatment can cost anything from a few hundred pounds to up to £15,000 in exceptional circumstances . |
| 23 | While these constitutional niceties were being debated , a crowd of students gathered in the rain a few hundred yards away in Wenceslas Square to demonstrate support for Mr Havel . |
| 24 | Now the USSR catches only a few hundred belugas each year , not only because of enforced catch limits , but because these impressive creatures just are no longer there to be caught in such numbers . |
| 25 | Iraq is after all only a few hundred miles from the Soviet Union 's own ( Muslim-dominated ) southern border . |
| 26 | No more than a few hundred of these are used with any frequency . |
| 27 | As he had been invited to dine with Members afterwards , his secretary had booked him into The Howard Hotel , a few hundred yards from Parliament Square on the Victoria Embankment , overlooking the Tower of London to the east and the Houses of Parliament to the west . |
| 28 | The novel he was supposed to be working on hardly progressed a few hundred words in a week . |
| 29 | The Valley of the Shadow of Death was the steep lane that dropped between darkly overhanging hedgerows a few hundred yards from his home , a stony track where one walked at night whistling . |
| 30 | The number of neurones in a brain varies from a few hundred in simple invertebrates up to approximately 10 11 in man . |