Example sentences of "[art] [adj] hundred [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | She let out her pent-up breath in a loud gasp of relief ; then she bent over the handlebars and sent the bike whizzing as fast as she could pedal it across the remaining hundred yards or so of field . |
2 | The troubles had deep roots in the previous hundred years and represented a breakdown in much of the aristocratic social order which the classical forms of houses and estates concealed rather than coerced . |
3 | that , that is included on the other side in the three hundred pounds that went out . |
4 | Why were n't they off photographing the three hundred bodies that the Americans were digging up and dumping into a mass grave ? |
5 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
6 | Well it was the first hundred houses that were built in the New Town and it housed a lot of building trade workers , a lot of engineers and a lot of archi well a lot , a few architects and a few engineers and the rest were building trade workers or of some sort or another , and a few British Hydro |
7 | The first hundred yards or so of the level were stone dressed and arched over our heads in a well-made curve . |
8 | This morning it was starts from the state boat ; many a race has been won in the first hundred yards or so , and Oxford , as always , are coached and prepared for everything . |
9 | That 's the five hundred pounds that 's in our budget as opposed to in the the the personnel budget . |
10 | Oh , they just do the two hundred pounds and then these people add forty five per cent in on the the because |
11 | Even when the foremost ranks reached the ford-end and without pause turned in , to splash across the two hundred yards or so of shallows , there was no immediate change , the enemy obviously taken by surprise . |
12 | Just after nine she would join the throng of the prominenti and walk the two hundred yards or so to the conference centre . |
13 | Over the two hundred years that they owned the house their fortunes dwindled until the house was sold to the Hutchings family in 1736 . |
14 | While such concerns are admirable in their no-nonsense practicality , they represent a significant decline in ambition when compared with the other criminologies that have appeared during the two hundred years that have passed since Beccaria wrote . |
15 | By this date there must have been a very fine library at Islay House collected over the two hundred years since it was built ; one can not imagine that Eallabus which produced Dr. John Crawford who wrote " A History of the Indian Archipelago " and " A Grammar & Dictionary of the Malay Language , " and the distinguished surgeon Professor Cheine , was without a library . |
16 | It is upon these sorts of documents that historians frequently draw , especially for the writing of very recent history ( i.e. within the past hundred years or so ) and it is commonplace to find the historian referring to ‘ other views ’ on a particular matter , as expressed by some political opponent in his memoirs . |
17 | He was the most self-conscious countryman amongst British Prime Ministers of the past hundred years or more . |
18 | It is easiest to understand the modern methods for measuring electrical activity from the brain by looking at the development of these methods over the past hundred years or so . |
19 | It is only in the last hundred years that the West has taken a serious interest in exactly where the different Anatolian rugs were made . |
20 | Pahl ( 1984 ) asserts that it is the last hundred years that have been the aberration compared with the greater flexibility of both earlier periods and the present time . |
21 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
22 | The way in which wealthy Englishmen have dealt with their capital has changed greatly in the last hundred years or so . |
23 | Until the last hundred years or so , the purchasing value of coins was closely related to the intrinsic value of the metal they were made from . |
24 | He does n't correspond to any of the multiple fictions produced over the last hundred years or so by a long line of social reformers and slum missionaries of what the working class should be . |
25 | It is merely the application of some basic rules of human behaviour that researchers have uncovered over the last hundred years or so . |
26 | Perhaps the tremendous upsurge of female creativity over the last hundred years or so , particularly in the fields of literature and art , may be connected with the increasing desire of women to use for themselves ‘ the light principle ’ . |
27 | But to those for whom such patterns are becoming real , and for whom some rational explanation of the shift is required , then it can fairly be argued that the spreading ethic of Confucianism — exported in the last hundred years or so to every nation on and within the Pacific coastline by the tens of millions of overseas Chinese who have acted as its accidental evangelists — is crucial . |
28 | The damaging feature of oralism in the last hundred years or so in Great Britain has been its total rejection of any other method of educating deaf children . |
29 | During the course of the last hundred years or so educationists have progressively sold out to those who have imposed upon the education system the responsibility for attesting attainment and selecting suitable candidates . |
30 | It is evident that over the last hundred years or so mid realizations have been spreading at the expense of low realizations . |