Example sentences of "a hundred [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I 'm saying is some schools they might be here seventy five days out of a hundred but for twenty of those |
| 2 | Mrs Healy looked a hundred but apparently she was twenty-seven . |
| 3 | The number of books was usually about a hundred but sometimes much larger . |
| 4 | He was expecting to take his evening meal with five or six others in one corner of a dining-room designed to seat a hundred but , in fact , all the tables were occupied by delegates to some conference and he was asked to share with two of them . |
| 5 | It 's very good to compare how people see you , because if for example , your score came out we 'll say at a hundred but you work mainly with adapters , the innovators who were up here , they 're going to think that you 're an adapter . |
| 6 | I was gon na ask you to pay a hundred but I 'll talk about that . |
| 7 | So er we 're still hovering around a hundred but instead of being four over the hundred the present total is ninety six by my reckoning . |
| 8 | I thought it 's a hundred but it it 's getting on . |
| 9 | Erm well actually what I wanted was a repeat of my prescription , but I wondered why the last time I had one I got sixty instead of a hundred that I got before ? |
| 10 | Evidently Hatton got a hundred when he was personally involved , fifty when it was someone else to be knocked on the head and left in a ditch . |
| 11 | It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The number of visits was strongly related to the number of visitors : of those with less than five visitors , a quarter had a hundred or more visits , but this proportion was three-quarters for those with five or more visitors . |
| 15 | In chemical terms , though , the situation is much simpler , since all matter is composed of only a hundred or so elements . |
| 16 | These fish in the 1lb to 2lb class can be a hundred or more strong in a shoal , and if you begin catching this size of barbel it is likely they will remain in the swim , feeding off and on , for as long as you have bait to keep them interested . |
| 17 | The shoals could still number a hundred or so . |
| 18 | Since 1961 , the expansion of towns and cities within a hundred or more miles of London has been enormous . |
| 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 | His knowledge of classical music was very comprehensive — you only had to sing him a snatch of any symphony or concerto and he would be able to identify it immediately , but this is n't sufficient to get you up there in front of a hundred or more qualified musicians and be able to lead them into the opening bars of Beethoven 's 5th , or even the Warsaw Concerto . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This is a great piece of garden machinery but only if your land is already free of perennial weeds such as dandelion , dock and , the worst pest of all , creeping buttercup ; if not , all it will do is to chop them into little pieces , and where you had one when you used it , you 'll have a hundred or more next year . |
| 27 | Pete is actually prepared to import a hundred or so himself if necessary . |
| 28 | Thus , while a hundred or so European species have been recorded as hosts , only a handful are used regularly . |
| 29 | In contrast , residual vision in humans is usually tested with relatively fine stimuli presented for a hundred or so milliseconds . |
| 30 | 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 . |