Example sentences of "[noun sg] for a hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . |
| 2 | His cottages at Blaize Hamlet blazed a trail for a hundred years . |
| 3 | Mrs Drubb with a wedding-breakfast for a hundred guests to organize had more than enough to do . |
| 4 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After eight miles of rough driving , we reached the local highland town of Makale , and the only petrol-pump for a hundred miles . |
| 7 | Built in 1820 it ground corn for a hundred years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Face to face with him ( the first time since receiving their inheritance from him ) , they attack his claimed need for a hundred knights . |
| 10 | The track , after leaving the ridge , went steeply down for a few yards and then turned to the right and ran diagonally across the hill for a hundred yards ; the pile of rocks was about midway on the right-hand side of this length of the track . |
| 11 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As this did not seem adequately to reach them , " In this country , we have only generally had waterborne sewage for a hundred years or so . |
| 14 | It is not like Hamburg , where they have had a tournament for a hundred years and people would go out and watch tennis at 7 am , even in the freezing cold . ’ |
| 15 | In the bewildering tracery formed by the work and by the claims and counter-claims that it has provoked , there is matter for a hundred lectures , and what follows is neither and attempt to summarize , nor a rival undertaking . |
| 16 | The wild boar had been hiding behind a large and actually rather unconvincing bush for a hundred years or so . |
| 17 | That the cripple lived near the stream there was no doubt because his crutch prints were heavily marked on the path for a hundred paces or so as though he often came there , but beyond that point there were none . |
| 18 | Or they 're on sale for a hundred pounds each . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The remainder included words such as ‘ oshac ’ and ‘ ae ’ , which have not been used in standard English for a hundred years — nice try snatched the £1O longest word prize with his beautifully simple nine letter word , ‘ refollows ’ . |
| 22 | One day when he had sold a painting for a hundred francs , he spent it all on buying flowers for every woman who passed by in the street in a gesture that Modi much admired . |
| 23 | There 's no sea for a hundred miles , you stupid man ! ’ |
| 24 | No lead had been mined on Vangmoor for a hundred years , but the engine houses and the housing for water wheels , once deemed so hideous , now in ruin had a beauty of their own . |
| 25 | He walked up the main street for a hundred yards and came to a road off on his right labelled Buller 's Hill . |