Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a hundred [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employees were awarded sums of money between a hundred pounds and fifteen thousand pounds to tackle projects in partnership with national or local voluntary organisations . |
| 2 | Employees were awarded sums of money between a hundred pounds and fifteen thousand pounds to tackle projects in partnership with national or local voluntary organisations . |
| 3 | ( This evening — as I knew I would and could — I coaxed and bullied him , and he wrote out a cheque for a hundred pounds , which he 's promised to send off tomorrow . |
| 4 | His cottages at Blaize Hamlet blazed a trail for a hundred years . |
| 5 | Mrs Drubb with a wedding-breakfast for a hundred guests to organize had more than enough to do . |
| 6 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 7 | It was the persuasion of the Vice Society that led Lord Chancellor Campbell to push through the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , an Act which was to remain in force for a hundred years , and this was followed by the establishment of the first ( and short-lived ) Obscene Publications police squad in London . |
| 8 | After eight miles of rough driving , we reached the local highland town of Makale , and the only petrol-pump for a hundred miles . |
| 9 | He said he wanted two for a flyer for a hundred pound wages ! |
| 10 | Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth . |
| 11 | speeding is dangerous for teh fact that it 's a very confined area … even at fifty miles an hour … that 's a conbined impact speed of a hundred miles an hour … we 're also thinking of the workmen , who are sometimes working where there 's no central barrier |
| 12 | In 1831 the Rothesay Castle , a passenger-steamship bound from Liverpool to Beaumaris on the Isle of Anglesey foundered with the loss of a hundred men , women and children . |
| 13 | To the sleeping rhythm of a hundred hours , |
| 14 | Previously , each initiative — on advanced materials , manufacturing technology , biotechnology , high performance computing , global climate change and science education — was described in a pamphlet of a hundred pages or more that included detailed budgets of what each agency planned to spend . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A driver who towed another car at a hundred miles an hour on a motorway has admitted reckless driving . |
| 17 | He can pick out a charlatan at a hundred yards . ’ |
| 18 | The Palings was an old building ; it had stood full face to the sea and the prevailing wind for the best part of a hundred years . |
| 19 | 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 ! ’ |
| 20 | Eight years later , to be precise , she was greeted by screaming crowds and the flash of a hundred photographers ' cameras . |
| 21 | All the time we were assailed by the noise of a hundred bells and the screams of hawkers and traders who sold everything from a piece of iron to hot chestnuts . |
| 22 | Though he was an adequate mariner , he was by no means an expert fisherman , being the sort of man who makes more conversation than profit from his catches ; but after a trip across to Plymouth early in the new year , he returned looking exceedingly pleased with himself , dressed in finer clothes than were often seen on the Polruan side of the Fowey , and full of the news that he intended to commission John Knollys to build him a bark of a hundred tons . |
| 23 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 24 | Built in 1820 it ground corn for a hundred years . |
| 25 | The year before , Maxims services had been tried out when the Ministry of the Court commissioned them to provide a banquet in the desert for a hundred people . |
| 26 | Certainly , it was quite a strenuous walk — though I can say it failed to cause me any real difficulty — the path rising in zigzags up the hillside for a hundred yards or so . |
| 27 | Unchanged , however , are the environs of the great waterfall at the head of the valley , a scene of awesome natural grandeur where , in a surround of towering limestone cliffs , Hardraw Beck plunges over the lip of a crag in a graceful unbroken leap of a hundred feet . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | Really detailed molecular records at a spacing of a hundred years or less will be necessary to predict the climate change in the future and we 'll really need that information if we 're going to live safely on this planet . |
| 30 | I tried to keep his words in the front of my mind , particularly during the bad times when we were clearing everything out and the dust and debris of a hundred years was falling into our eyes . |