Example sentences of "[adv] for a hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The symbolism was potent enough for a hundred generations to keep the chalk clear |
| 2 | This is a cave very accommodating for beginners in speleology and indeed for ordinary walkers with no such aspirations who , aided only by a torch , can penetrate quite easily for a hundred yards without meeting any difficulty . |
| 3 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 4 | Been there for a hundred years have n't they ? |
| 5 | The next stretch northward for a hundred miles or more showed the variety of the Romanian countryside . |