Example sentences of "[art] hundred or [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such approaches , of course , were ordinarily difficult to resist , for a house never knew when royal gratitude might be of value to it in some application of its own or in some lawsuit ; a number of larger houses , like Bury St Edmunds in 1303 , even found themselves accommodating more than one royal corrodian ; furthermore , the recipients of these requests ranged far outside the hundred or so houses of which the king was patron . |
| 2 | Different numbers and arrangements of these particles form the hundred or so elements which occur on our planet . |
| 3 | I tried to restore my word processor program and the hundred or so files , but after restoring the first disk , the program stopped , giving the error message , ‘ Unable to find path ’ . |
| 4 | Ace opened the first cabinet , scanned the hundred or so labels quickly , selected the most recent crystal and fed it into a reader . |
| 5 | Most of the hundred or so men who were waiting with Burun had dismounted , but their st'lyan stood heads up , waiting patiently . |
| 6 | A hundred or so houses sit on log stilts . |
| 7 | I think he bowled a hundred or so deliveries for me before I got the images right . |
| 8 | In contrast , residual vision in humans is usually tested with relatively fine stimuli presented for a hundred or so milliseconds . |
| 9 | In chemical terms , though , the situation is much simpler , since all matter is composed of only a hundred or so elements . |
| 10 | Again and again this arching leap is performed until a hundred or so eggs are fixed in an even carpet on the female 's back . |
| 11 | Lineages also contributed to the expenses of funerals : members made a collection toward the cost of feeding the guests ; if the dead person was a well known and respected man , the household might have to provide two meals a day and continual tea for up to a week for a hundred or so visitors ( who sometimes brought a contribution of a sheep or tea or sugar ) . |
| 12 | On other , more inclusive counts there were not a hundred or so nationalities in the USSR ( the 1989 census recorded 128 ) but as many as 400 , or even 800 . |
| 13 | The field of study is a local community ; perhaps just a hundred or so individuals , seldom many more than 2000 . |
| 14 | The League had already declared that it would boycott the investiture and , when he stood up to speak , a hundred or so extremists began shouting and jeering , and dozens had to be dragged off by the police before he could be heard . |
| 15 | He thought people still enjoyed the simple retelling of the key mysteries of the faith , stories they knew and loved , and seeing a hundred or so Christians joining together in such a project could only commend the Church . |
| 16 | Routine administrative functions were sited in the free-standing towns and cities within a hundred or so miles of London . |
| 17 | In skirmishes on the rugged Norwegian mountains made dangerous by an early thaw , these companies screened the Allied operations a hundred or so miles to the north around Narvik . |
| 18 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 19 | Except to say that women 's entry into education generally was conceded reluctantly and belatedly a hundred or so years ago , long after the rules had been established and the parameters had been set . |