Example sentences of "[prep] a hundred [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | After a hundred metres you 've got The Chair , that 's where The Chair is . |
2 | He had no clues to its mystery but those contained in Chant 's letter , and after a hundred readings they were exhausted . |
3 | Because at no metres there 's one post and at the end of a hundred metres you 've got two posts so you got one post more |
4 | If we had to send you and it 's a big if , we had to send you another hundred mil further sorry another hundred miles , above a hundred miles we will pay you another five percent . |
5 | Within a hundred metres he came across the first tank paths , ghost-like trails that appeared to be overgrown now , ever since the Russians had pulled out and taken their exhaust-belching tanks home on low-loader trains . |
6 | From a hundred feet he raked it from side to side and back again . |
7 | On a hundred occasions I have idled similarly in a deserted croft in the Highlands of Scotland and wondered about the lives that had been lived in it . |