Example sentences of "[prep] a hundred [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a hundred lines of the coarsest prose the final juxtaposition shows a gap of ethos as wide as that between Troilus and Pandarus , but more threatening : Her intended customer is the nobleman Lysimachus , and to begin with Marina speaks a docile prose with the bawds ( IV.vi.51ff. ) , continuing with aggressive word-play in order to shame Lysimachus into naming the vice he is engaged upon ( 66–91 ) . |
| 2 | The view from the summit is far reaching , extending over half of Scotland and a confused jumble of a hundred peaks to the islands of the Hebrides . |
| 3 | But we 're looking for something well in excess of a hundred hectares outside the city boundaries and essentially in the greenbelt . |
| 4 | He reckoned that the population of the day numbered somewhere between six and nine hundred people , but he based this on the fact that the laird pressed together an army of a hundred men for the ‘ 45 , and according to Johnson ‘ the sixth part of a people is supposed capable of bearing arms ’ . |
| 5 | Whitechurch wrote : ‘ The immense timber yard is enough to make one imagine that material had been laid in for building a fleet of a hundred arks after the pattern of Noah 's . |
| 6 | Erm that might , might interest you to know that during the past ten years I have personally entertained something like a hundred visitors from the States who are with their families er , of course , er returned here for a look , look round . |
| 7 | The hearings ran for a hundred days during the summer and autumn of 1977 . |
| 8 | This absence of news made me all the more careful , and an hour after leaving camp I arrived without mishap at an open glade near the top of the hill , within a hundred yards of the forest road . |
| 9 | It was hours before the first students managed to permeate through the streets and come to within a hundred yards of the Mar Girgis . |
| 10 | Others who made it to within a hundred yards of the bridge … count themselves lucky to have survived … |
| 11 | Its guidlines state that the bypass would have to be within a hundred yards of the road or the conditions intolerable before the property would be bought , though the Judge Mr Justice Latham said that in his view those guidelines were a shambles . |
| 12 | Closely similar creatures called sea pens grow in the sea within a hundred miles of the Flinders Ranges . |
| 13 | Within a hundred years of the missionaries ' arrival many English men and women had enthusiastically adopted the monasticism which was considered the purest form of the Christian life and the surest way to salvation , and which had spread throughout western Europe in the fifth and sixth centuries . |
| 14 | Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times . |
| 15 | It 's based on my experience of presenting thousands of them in close to a hundred countries around the world , under a wide variety of conditions . |
| 16 | ‘ We made him agree to a hundred pounds for the child 's family . |
| 17 | In the garden of his old home , he recorded noise up to a hundred decibels from the motorway . |