Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poetry alone is worldwide and limitless ; and even through the mangling of translation , the images of beauty come through a hundred tongues unsullied . |
| 2 | And it was not rebuilt for a hundred years . |
| 3 | The sounds had come from a hundred yards east of the dell . |
| 4 | ‘ If the turf had been hard , ’ he said , ‘ we 'd have won by a hundred yards , ’ and then elaborated about Sir Ivor : |
| 5 | The media are aware of this fact , and photographs of Hannah side by side with Her Ladyship featured in a hundred newspapers and more |
| 6 | Well if they 've separated you see you get one on the inside track , one on the outside track and they can be separated by a hundred metres so that there 's one , one side one |
| 7 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
| 8 | Two-thirds of it is about The Beatles , with the last twenty years condensed into a hundred pages , which should give you some idea of how interesting that portion of his life is . |
| 9 | Two-thirds of it is about The Beatles , with the last twenty years condensed into a hundred pages , which should give you some idea of how interesting that portion of his life is . |
| 10 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 11 | Chuckball is a mixture of basketball and handball … invented in Switzerland its now taking a hold in this country … its a non contact sport but is played at a hundred miles an hour … and top dogs are Cheltenham 's Junior Team … they 've just won the European Championship … a big deal … |
| 12 | And towards morning , when the snow turned again to rain , the whole hillside under which they were camped had become furrowed and scoured by a hundred brooks scurrying and leaping downwards into the river valley , till the level of the flood crept up towards their outposts , and its tributaries carried down into it everything movable that came in their way , including some of the hobbled horses , and the wreckage of tents , and drowned men . |
| 13 | Queues stretched for a hundred yards yesterday as season ticket holders lined up for tickets for the Hillsborough semi-final on April 5 . |
| 14 | We 've known for a hundred years that there were Roman burials in this area . |
| 15 | After one hundred polls he started again from one , and the teller marked off the hundred votes . |
| 16 | Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times . |
| 17 | This was printed as a limited edition of seventy-five copies for private circulation in 1876 , and a second edition limited to a hundred copies appeared in 1893 . |
| 18 | So if you take a hundred gallons on a day meter , you 're charged for a hundred gallons of water going out as sewage , er the Anglia rate is is is double ours for sewage . |
| 19 | Has everything to be drummed in a hundred times ? |
| 20 | ‘ It 's told me things that you 'd never have admitted in a hundred years . ’ |
| 21 | The politburo convened on March 9-10 , and on March 12 all official media organs gave prominent coverage to the resultant communiqué which declared unequivocally that economic reform should be " firmly maintained for a hundred years " . |
| 22 | In China the dying Tso Tsung-t'ang 's memorandum of 1885 pointed the way to reform on western lines but nothing important was achieved until the Hundred Days of reform in 1898 . |
| 23 | Perspiration poured from a hundred brows — though it was snowing steadily outside — as an official declared : ‘ We ask you to tell the world about Petr Uhl . |
| 24 | If this package had had to go through national parliaments , it would not have been achieved in a hundred years ! ’ |
| 25 | He was almost blue with cold , having had to scramble up an iceberg , loaded with a hundred pounds of scuba gear , and then left for long minutes all by himself . |
| 26 | In the winter , locals sit round fireside bars which have scarcely changed in a hundred years . |
| 27 | In the eighteenth century Aragon , where agriculture was prospering and olive groves had doubled in a hundred years , had become an industrially depressed region . |
| 28 | times , hold on , forty five divided by a hundred times two hundred |