Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adv] [art] hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | A charming Canadian town nestling in the eternally lush and fertile Orotava Valley , whose beauty and mild climate have attracted visitors for over a hundred years . |
2 | Erm , the consequence of that is that at conception the sex ratio in the white U S population is about a hundred and twenty males to about a hundred females . |
3 | He claimed to have taken the informations of over a hundred witnesses , English and Irish . |
4 | From a height of 90 metres one looks down on an emerging pattern of roads , lakes and gardens , which will shortly be lined with pavilions from over a hundred countries . |
5 | Base surges spread out radially in all directions from the base of the rising ash column , rolling down the volcano at speeds of nearly a hundred kilometres per hour and covering an area of more than 230 square kilometres . |
6 | He says the course is really tight and they reach speeds of over a hundred miles an hour . |
7 | The survey will be carried out using a questionnaire in interviews with about a hundred MPs , chosen to represent the main grouping within parties , and ten Peers who have shown interest in welfare issues . |
8 | In early April 1946 U Sein Ywet and I did a seven-days tour in the Delta in which we visited two towns and ten villages , listening to government officers , elders , headmen , and representatives from nearly a hundred villages , which convinced me that much more needed to be done for the towns and villages outside Rangoon . |