Example sentences of "[prep] a hundred [noun pl] [prep] " 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 | After a hundred years of true blue Conservative control , the electors decided they wanted a change . |
| 3 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 4 | After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean . |
| 5 | Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin . |
| 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 | Lot number thirty two Lot thirty two , the lacquer brushes there we are , there 's the lacquer brushes , I 've got two offers of a hundred pounds for them one hundred pounds in two places , at one hundred and ten , one twenty , thirty , forty going on ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But we 're looking for something well in excess of a hundred hectares outside the city boundaries and essentially in the greenbelt . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There was a photo of a man dangling on the end of a hundred metres of rope , demonstrating SRT — single rope technique . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And the machine did have bowels — she could smell them : a dark , rancid odour comprising the spilled residue of a hundred types of food . |
| 16 | As a personal evaluation of a hundred years of Jewish-Greek contacts this was a remarkable statement . |
| 17 | She never thought that she would look at emptiness and not immediately be able to think of a hundred ways of filling it . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | Lot ten ten , ten is the Burmese Buddha this the Buddha showing for a hundred pounds at one hundred pounds , and ten at a hundred and ten pounds all done ? |
| 22 | Er , Lot , Lot number fifty two I 'm offering which is in front of the rostrum here Lot number fifty two for a hundred pounds at one hundred pounds at one hundred and ten , one twenty , one thirty at a hundred and thirty pounds any more at one hundred and thirty , one forty in the centre one fifty going on sir ? |
| 23 | Lot fifty three again it 's in front of the rostrum here , Lot number fifty three for a hundred pounds at one hundred pounds at one hundred pounds , any more at one hundred only , at one hundred , you all done ? |
| 24 | Lot number sixty six Lot number sixty six is another one there we are , there 's another one showing for a hundred pounds at one hundred and ten , at one hundred and ten pounds any more at one ten , one twenty , thirty , forty , fifty one sixty , seventy one eighty at the back against you near me one eighty at the back and selling for a hundred and eighty pounds , all done at one eighty . |
| 25 | Lot number sixty eight Lot sixty eight is another one there we are that one is showing for a hundred pounds at one ten , one twenty , one thirty bid , and s one forty one fifty sixty one seventy eighty one ninety two hundred two twenty two forty two forty bid at the back and selling for two forty , all done at two hundred and forty . |
| 26 | Thank you , Lot number ninety one Lot number ninety one for a hundred pounds at one hundred pounds any more at one hundred pounds only ? |
| 27 | For a hundred pounds at one hundred and ten I 'm bid , at one twenty , one thirty at one hundred and thirty pounds any more at one thirty , and selling for a hundred and thirty pounds , you all done at one thirty . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The hearings ran for a hundred days during the summer and autumn of 1977 . |
| 30 | This is a cave very accommodating for beginners in speleology and indeed for ordinary walkers with no such aspirations who , aided only by a torch , can penetrate quite easily for a hundred yards without meeting any difficulty . |