Example sentences of "a hundred [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name . |
| 2 | Even if only one peg in a hundred pegger is good enough to give them that chance . |
| 3 | The LM 1 liquid is then poured onto some poppy-seed granules of which a hundred weigh 1 grain ( 0.06gm ) . |
| 4 | Indeed it probably encouraged them , though it must never be forgotten that for every nursemaid or gardener who lived out their lives in the service of one family there were a hundred country girls who passed briefly through the household to pregnancy , marriage or another job , being treated merely as yet another instance of that ‘ servant problem ’ which filled the conversations of their mistresses . |
| 5 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 6 | the trouble is not having enough modern catalogues of , of things that you can actually buy today because when they manufacturer them now they do n't erm make catalogues as often as they used to do er , it costs so much money in it I 'd er , I , I think that probably the next trend is going to be in lighting fittings er which will take in er you er , low energy lamps er , at the erm , the new fluorescent lamps er where erm , well there 's one in the hall which takes eight watts and it 's given us as much light out as a hundred watt lamp , er and |
| 7 | forty , twenty five watts or less , forty watts nominal the ones I 'm running not through a hundred watt channel , er |
| 8 | Around Ashton-under-Lyne , for example , where it was reckoned there were nearly a hundred cotton mills within a ten-mile radius — all on the river Tame or its tributaries — we find hamlets in the 1790s with the significant names of Boston , Charlestown and Botany Bay . |
| 9 | An entire town centre has been put under surveillance by nearly a hundred video cameras , in the battle against crime . |
| 10 | — — — The programme described faulty workmanship in a number of new timber-frame homes following a survey of more than a hundred building sites . |
| 11 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 12 | Mhm , so that 's a hundred year ago and more . |
| 13 | A hundred year before yourself ? |
| 14 | A hundred year before myself yes . |
| 15 | There 's a hundred year secrecy on them you know . |
| 16 | That 's a hundred year project . |
| 17 | These large white fuel ‘ flasks ’ are themselves considered enough of a danger for a hundred mile an hour full-scale train crush to have been tested in 1984 . |
| 18 | An inquest 's underway on a man who crashed a motorbike into a wall after a hundred mile an hour police chase . |
| 19 | Well my other car is a nineteen twenty nine V six Bentley , which will do a hundred mile an hour , so if I drive them alternately it cuts me down to size . |
| 20 | And er rock er dropped use that expression , they used they were both right at the at the foot of the quarry face or precipice or whatever somewhere around a hundred foot high and then th they blasted the top see and dropped a whole fall . |
| 21 | On a typical P C you might have a hundred megabyte disk . |
| 22 | I said I would make them a hundred butterfly cakes , and they either they 'll eat them or they 'll sell them , and I 'll hav I 'll try and have them ready for when rings up at half past one and if they sell them and she brings me any I would n't mind knocking a few more up for tomorrow , but I 'm not gon na give them all |
| 23 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 24 | And one in a hundred say they have to use their ‘ feminine charms ’ to get their own way . |
| 25 | He had , he said , advised the Shah to erect a hundred scaffold in Teheran and to hang on them a hundred people , starting with his former prime minister . |
| 26 | I ca n't do it all in this wool , with that many different colours to do , if they did it in , if they made ounce balls if they made it , did ounce balls it wo n't be so bad , but that 's a hundred gramme that , so |
| 27 | Herein lies the problem : the wood needs to be of a species for which there is a ‘ master chronology ’ ( see p. 125 ) and there must normally be at least a hundred tree rings in the sample to be dated to ensure a unique match with the master pattern . |
| 28 | Given the last two terms , the government had over a hundred majority , a by-election was n't important . |
| 29 | Although about a hundred rugby balls went into the sea on game days none were ever seen floating on the water for long . |
| 30 | Often he sang a Livornese song with the words : ‘ I work for a hundred lire a month . |