Example sentences of "a hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hundred lecturers , members of the Manufacturing Science and Finance Union , are being asked for their support . |
| 2 | A hundred grams , for one bar , costs you twenty eight pence , right , and then another one that 's two hundred grams and it 'll cost you fifty pence . |
| 3 | we 've got a hundred grams divided by twenty eight pennies , the answer is whatever it comes to grams per divided by pennies , grams per penny , so that 's a good check that you 've got it the right way up , before you go and calculate it you just have a little look , what have I got here ? |
| 4 | Cadbury 's Roses verdict neat box but too much packaging and they cost a hundred and one P for a hundred grams . |
| 5 | A professional cavalier , who enjoyed excelling at the game of soldiering , who gave his orders with the perfect authority of a corps whose drills have been tempered by a score of successful wars , a hundred victories , a million unsung deaths . |
| 6 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 7 | ‘ But what is countable may not be what counts , ’ lamented one executive who had himself supervised a hundred engineers . |
| 8 | In October 1990 a network of Baptist Church planters was officially formed gathering around a hundred ministers and aiming to hold a first residential conference in 1991 . |
| 9 | A hundred divisions pouring across the frontier . |
| 10 | ‘ Somebody seems to have scored a hundred runs and been the hero of the school . ’ |
| 11 | More than a hundred scientists from around the world have gathered at St John 's College , Oxford , for a major conference . |
| 12 | Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca . |
| 13 | For a group of young nuns to challenge the full authority of the Chinese state , visibly expressed by the tin-hatted martial-law troops standing guard only a hundred metres away , is an act of calculated defiance . |
| 14 | The rate of propagation varies from one to a hundred metres per second , depending on the diameter of the axon . |
| 15 | Before raising the anchor , he had punched the rendezvous into the Loran 's computer ; now the radio navigation system gave Golden Girl 's position in relation to the rendezvous to within a hundred metres . |
| 16 | Eventually , in November 1944 , a plug of incandescent lava poked up through the middle of the elevated dome , and this gradually rose during the course of the next year until it was over a hundred metres above the top of the dome , and nearly 300 metres above normal ground level . |
| 17 | The ground heaved for about a hundred metres , more turf broke through and the smell increased . |
| 18 | But this strip of superior vines is very thin , just a hundred metres in parts , as the communal boundary of Cramant hives off most of the vineyards . |
| 19 | True , Brian Robinson did get over from a maul on the All Black 's line before the worst happened — although the Australian referee , Sandy McNeill , was unfortunately the only individual within a hundred metres who failed to note the touchdown . |
| 20 | The animals ' daily movements become much more restricted — covering an area of no more than a hundred metres square . |
| 21 | Would his lungs bake , and his eyes poach , and his skin crisp to crackling before he had even fallen or slid a hundred metres ? |
| 22 | It is a brief walk , no more than a hundred metres , but it is a sliver of freedom . |
| 23 | A hundred metres of the emptiness-that-was-not still yawned , separating their ship from a ragged hole large enough to admit several armoured Terminator Marines abreast . |
| 24 | It was less than a hundred metres away , and gave us a long hard look as we stood there . |
| 25 | It was one of those typical Arctic mornings , with the sun shining through a veil of sea-mist which limited visibility at sea level to a hundred metres or so . |
| 26 | A hundred metres further there was a barrier across the road with flashing lights , cars parked along the verges , police with guns . |
| 27 | The smooth metal slid away from in front of her box-like boots to reveal the surface of the space station , now only a hundred metres below the shuttle . |
| 28 | Some , from lower viewpoints , gave glimpses of the faceted dome that covered the expanse of space ; others looked down and revealed the four tiny figures balanced a hundred metres above a vast , circular , grey plain . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're under attack and we 're a hundred metres up . ’ |
| 30 | The kite string is making an angle of forty degrees there and it 's got a hundred metres of the line payed out . |