Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a hundred [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! ’ |
| 3 | This can be done by direct measurements of the maximum dimension of a hundred grains through a calibrated eye piece graticule , or on a screen , followed by calculation of the standard deviation of these dimensions and application of a conversion equation which adjusts this value for the effects of random sectioning ( e.g. Harrell & eriksson , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | They did n't drive around in their fathers ' cast-off Rollers ; they pooled their resources , picked up a MkII escort for a hundred notes at an auction and took it in turns to drive it round a disused airfield practising handbrake turns until the car cried enough . |
| 5 | But we 're looking for something well in excess of a hundred hectares outside the city boundaries and essentially in the greenbelt . |
| 6 | A mock ‘ Petition of the Pawnbrokers ’ said the petitioners who were in the business of lending small sums on pledges were not legally justified in charging more than five pounds for the loan of a hundred pounds for a year . |
| 7 | 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 ! ’ |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | And the machine did have bowels — she could smell them : a dark , rancid odour comprising the spilled residue of a hundred types of food . |
| 10 | There was a photo of a man dangling on the end of a hundred metres of rope , demonstrating SRT — single rope technique . |
| 11 | There was still a good deal to be done : studying the local map , persuading a naval man to lend me his dark blue trousers , and buying a filthy cap for a hundred cigarettes from a Pole working in the washroom . |
| 12 | Further down the gill , on a high bank on the south side and at the base of a low cliff , is the opening of Capnut ( or Katnot ) Cave where a roomy passage can be followed without encountering difficulties other than darkness for a hundred yards before returning to daylight . |
| 13 | As a personal evaluation of a hundred years of Jewish-Greek contacts this was a remarkable statement . |
| 14 | You attach a transmitter to the jesses and keep the receiver with you — this can pinpoint a bird within a hundred yards over a radius of fifteen miles . |
| 15 | Closely similar creatures called sea pens grow in the sea within a hundred miles of the Flinders Ranges . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Particularly when when the City Council themselves are promoting in the region of a hundred hectares of of development adjacent to the A one well well outside the city . |