Example sentences of "be a hundred [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 2 | And there must have been a hundred copies of a pamphlet on the campaign against street trading in animals . |
| 3 | Churchill had been a hundred miles from London , weekending in the country . |
| 4 | ‘ Is n't it possible , though , that the other girl could be a hundred kilometres from here and that this one was dumped here to put you off the scent ? ’ |
| 5 | Back at the boats , I reflect that if the Grand Canyon dam is ever built , most of what I can see will be a hundred feet under water . |
| 6 | You 're going to get charged for the amount going through will be a hundred electrons per second times sixty seconds . |
| 7 | It might be a hundred years from now for all I know . ’ |
| 8 | Do n't you remember look if there were a hundred minutes in an hour that would be two point one two , but there 's not a hundred minutes in an hour are there ? |
| 9 | Okay there 's a hundred metres of string out so you know |
| 10 | ‘ And what 's a hundred generations in the life of a bug ? ’ |
| 11 | Erm it 's a hundred years of parish government really , and er I would have thought probably we 'll find out that the National Association of Local Councils will probably be organizing something we can erm erm you know , adhere to . |
| 12 | If some project comes up during the course of the year , I would have thought that it might be appropriate to erm er cobble the name of centenary onto it , but I do n't really think that this year we just commit ourselves to something just because there 's a hundred years of parish government coming up . |
| 13 | Modern communications make the diffusion of ideas in a largely literate population so rapid that Freud was undoubtedly a name more widely known in his own lifetime than was Newton 's a hundred years after his death . |
| 14 | In one revolution , whatever number of cones are on there there 's a feeder for , so if there 's a hundred feeders in one revolution it knits a hundred courses . |
| 15 | three , it means you 've got three for every lane , it 's a hundred yards to your stopping distance , to you come to a junction |
| 16 | Lot number seven Lot seven the rosewater sprinkler Lot number seven there it is a hundred pounds for this one , one hundred pounds and ten , a hundred and ten pounds . |
| 17 | It is a hundred miles from King 's lions |
| 18 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 19 | And erm well let's , let's , let's just say a hundred watts is a hundred electrons per second . |
| 20 | It is a hundred jobs per hundred thousand square feet , that 's right . |
| 21 | It was a hundred years of Open Championships since the Belt was played for at Prestwick . |