Example sentences of "[prep] a hundred [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 2 | There was a photo of a man dangling on the end of a hundred metres of rope , demonstrating SRT — single rope technique . |
| 3 | And the machine did have bowels — she could smell them : a dark , rancid odour comprising the spilled residue of a hundred types of food . |
| 4 | And if it meant the purchase of a hundred acres of timber , I 'd count it cash well spent — especially to get men who can work as I 've seen you lads work this week ! ’ |
| 5 | So if you take a hundred gallons on a day meter , you 're charged for a hundred gallons of water going out as sewage , er the Anglia rate is is is double ours for sewage . |
| 6 | We hit about a hundred miles per hour minimum within seconds and hold it . |
| 7 | He was almost blue with cold , having had to scramble up an iceberg , loaded with a hundred pounds of scuba gear , and then left for long minutes all by himself . |
| 8 | Mind you , with a hundred years of refinement and improvement behind it , you still ca n't afford to ignore good old ‘ Sutton Globe ’ . |
| 9 | He still had I am a Fugitive in mind and he recalled how in that ‘ job ’ ( in itself a revealing word ) ‘ every man and woman within a hundred yards of camera range is acting his head off , figuring that he is a Clark Gable , or a Garbo ! ’ |
| 10 | Again the densities that I was getting back from them varied considerably , from a hundred workers per hectare on some |
| 11 | In A Hundred Years of Solitude we even sense that the writer wants to take us back into childhood , into the time when ‘ the world was … recent . ’ |
| 12 | We had over , over a hundred women in fact , we had a fifty percent success rate , thirty nine , well almost thirty nine of these women stopped smoking and most of them , almost all , showed a tremendous improvement in fitness , in well being , and quite a few , I wo n't say everyone , felt that i , they were much more relaxed |
| 13 | The rate of propagation varies from one to a hundred metres per second , depending on the diameter of the axon . |
| 14 | On the information that I have , densities range quite considerably , from as low as ten workers per hectare up to a hundred workers per hectare , but on average somewhere around thirty four , forty three could be taken if one wished to choose an average . |
| 15 | In fact , only one per cent of plants in the rainforest have been fully analysed ; and yet the forests are being destroyed at the rate of fifty to a hundred acres per minute . |
| 16 | ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’ |
| 17 | Sue 's just gone past at a hundred miles per hour . |