Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] than [art] hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unofficial sanctuary has been running for four years and is now looking after more than a hundred animals . |
| 2 | After more than a hundred years of the recognition of industrial picketing as a democratic mechanism the official Code of Practice issued by the Department of Employment says : ‘ There is no legal ‘ right to picket ’ as such but peaceful picketing has long been recognised as lawful . ’ |
| 3 | Minor movements of less than a hundred metres or so are probably best regarded as interruptions in one main cycle . |
| 4 | The post-void study revealed a , a residual volume of more than a hundred mils in about a third of patients , . |
| 5 | This new anthology should disturb many literary preconceptions with its forceful and charming discoveries , taken from the work of more than a hundred women . |
| 6 | A dossier containing details of more than a hundred prisoners who may have been wrongfully convicted has been presented to the Home Office . |
| 7 | The nine-mile-long Crinan Canal was cut through the Kintyre peninsula from Crinan Lock to Loch Fyne to create a passage for shipping that saved a journey of more than a hundred miles . |
| 8 | In the summer of our second year in Rye my four grandchildren came to stay — Mark , Elizabeth , Emma , Charlotte — and I realised that for more than a hundred years there had not been a child at Lamb House . |
| 9 | That has been a keenly disputed question in Britain for more than a hundred years . |
| 10 | In the fuel crisis of February 1947 , an already overstretched system had been brought to breaking point : electricity supplies to many users had been periodically interrupted for weeks on end and other supplies had been restricted , in the severest winter for more than a hundred years . |
| 11 | For more than a hundred years thousands of children have dug in the firm sand and paddled in the sea on the safe Swanage beach . |
| 12 | For more than a hundred years throughout the Dales of Yorkshire , the pivot of community life , the one platform for self-expression open to everyone was the chapel It had a virtual monopoly on social life , organizing the annual outings , sports days , tea parties and concerts which were the highlights of the year in an era which was starved of communication and leisure and wearied by the constant treadmill of work on the land . |
| 13 | And while Britain accepted the rise of Ibn Saud in the new country of Saudi Arabia , she also kept faith with the tiny emirates along the western flank of Arabia from Kuwait to Oman , over which she had exercised protection for more than a hundred years . |
| 14 | And finally , a family-run clothes shop that 's been open for more than a hundred years is closing down because there 's no one left to look after it . |
| 15 | A country pub that 's been in the same family for more than a hundred years is about to be sold off . |
| 16 | It was used as a public convenience for more than a hundred years . |
| 17 | The Horton General Hospital has treated the people of Banbury for more than a hundred years . |
| 18 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 19 | The Tirpitz book , Menace , also did well , and was illustrated with more than a hundred photographs and copies of relevant Ultra signals decrypted from the Enigma machines and now in the Public Records Office at Kew : to my surprise it has brought in more royalties from the Public Lending Right scheme than any other book I have written , including 10 Rillington Place . |
| 20 | Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts . |
| 21 | A Lufthansa jet with more than a hundred passengers on board hijacked by a gunman in Frankfurt has flown to New York . |
| 22 | With the rain cutting visibiity to less than a hundred feet , it was as if they were trapped inside a glass tumbler the sides of which held at bay the blackness of the storm . |
| 23 | But in each instance the value of their haul amounted to less than a hundred pounds . |
| 24 | The mist still limited visibility to less than a hundred yards and the fog-horn continued to blare at regular intervals . |
| 25 | Barbel fishing in the early days , and I am talking to more than a hundred years ago , was very popular amongst the gentry , who used to employ a man to bait a swim with thousands of lobworms over a period of days , sometimes weeks . |
| 26 | A motorcyclist died when he hit a wall after being chased by police at more than a hundred miles an hour . |
| 27 | But before it arrived , the residence had been captured and the chancery was under assault by more than a hundred militants . |
| 28 | The authorities decided to take the orangs by force , and on 31 October 1991 , armed soldiers carried out a dawn raid on the house and garage — where they were met by more than a hundred students . |