Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [art] hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Julius had been right , but only for just over a hundred years . |
| 2 | Well you have to think , International Women 's Day has been going for just about a hundred years . |
| 3 | He was speaking after one of his planes with just over a hundred Britons on board left Jordan with more half the seats empty because of diplomatic red tape . |
| 4 | A few months after I joined the Department of Transport in 1979 I was presented with an issue which had baffled governments for well over a hundred years . |
| 5 | Its vineyards , which have grown both black and white grapes for well over a hundred years , form a horseshoe around the Montagne d'Avize , starting with south-west-facing slopes south-west of the village , bending into a bank of north-facing vines at the back of the village and curving round into north-east-facing slopes close to the village of Cramant . |
| 6 | In London successive generations of the Hertslet family served in the foreign office continuously for well over a hundred years from 1795 onwards . |
| 7 | Her cache amounted to just over a hundred pounds . |
| 8 | The main bone of contention is undoubtedly Klemperer 's predilection for extremely slow tempi throughout the work , stretching the Symphony 's duration to well over a hundred minutes ! |