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 .
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