Example sentences of "[art] hundred [noun] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From experience , I know it is better to walk the hundred yards or so to the rank outside Westminster Abbey . ’ |
| 2 | I wished I had a boat as we walked down the steps , through the gate and the hundred yards or so to her door . |
| 3 | During the hundred years or so after Constantine Christianity could be a passport to office , power , and wealth . |
| 4 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 5 | Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca . |
| 6 | It was one of those typical Arctic mornings , with the sun shining through a veil of sea-mist which limited visibility at sea level to a hundred metres or so . |
| 7 | Minor movements of less than a hundred metres or so are probably best regarded as interruptions in one main cycle . |
| 8 | Previously , each initiative — on advanced materials , manufacturing technology , biotechnology , high performance computing , global climate change and science education — was described in a pamphlet of a hundred pages or more that included detailed budgets of what each agency planned to spend . |
| 9 | Woolly monkeys live very largely on leaves and they spend hours every day sitting high in the canopy , a hundred feet or more above the ground , plucking leaves and cramming them into their mouths . |
| 10 | It was a house I 'd passed by twice a day a hundred times or more . |
| 11 | It 's not difficult with small creatures , but with the large ones it 's possible to be a hundred pounds or so out , and an overdose could be dangerous for the animal . |
| 12 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |
| 13 | The additional shine will make the nameplate that much easier for your grandchildren to recognise when they see the piece on Antiques Roadshow in a hundred years or so ! |
| 14 | Scientific and technological advances will help the world deal with greenhouse gases , but not for a hundred years or so . |
| 15 | He came to Baldersdale a hundred years or so ago to help construct the Hury Reservoir — I think Low Birk Hatt was built around the same time . |
| 16 | For a hundred years or so before the birth of Jesus , Palestine had been under the rule of the Romans . |
| 17 | Step into this old fashioned , galleried , very reasonably priced general bookshop , and you step back a hundred years or so . |
| 18 | The wild boar had been hiding behind a large and actually rather unconvincing bush for a hundred years or so . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The next stretch northward for a hundred miles or more showed the variety of the Romanian countryside . |
| 22 | The surface of the Earth was a hundred miles or so away . |
| 23 | After a hundred miles or so , she came off the motorway to pick up fuel and drink a cup of coffee . |
| 24 | We only make it a hundred miles or so before evening falls . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They did not go into the forest or , at the most , only a hundred yards or so . |
| 27 | After it has travelled a hundred yards or so , it bivouacs . |
| 28 | After a hundred yards or so I could see behind me the whole cliffed extent of the headland , and the house . |
| 29 | The ground rose slightly , then dipped ; after a hundred yards or so a shallow outcrop of rocks hid the house . |
| 30 | A hundred yards or so beyond the house there were steps down to the shore and , curious , he went down to look more closely . |