Example sentences of "a hundred [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate of propagation varies from one to a hundred metres per second , depending on the diameter of the axon . |
| 2 | Erm a hundred metres per second . |
| 3 | There was a photo of a man dangling on the end of a hundred metres of rope , demonstrating SRT — single rope technique . |
| 4 | Okay there 's a hundred metres of string out so you know |
| 5 | radiation has a range of about a hundred metres in air and is stopped by about five centimetres of lead or concrete . |
| 6 | ‘ Just outside the village I discovered a quarry of over a hundred metres in diameter . |
| 7 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 8 | Sir : When it comes to supporting the arts , very little seems to have changed since George Farquhar in his Discourse on Comedy described his audience in 1702 as : a pit full of City gentlemen , a gallery full of cits , a hundred ladies of court education and about 200 footmen of nice morality . |
| 9 | He released a hundred quintols of amyl to remind him of that . |
| 10 | A single pound of uranium , it was claimed , could produce the same energy as a thousand tons of coal , whilst a hundred tons of uranium could provide all the electricity that the country could possibly need . |
| 11 | ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’ |
| 12 | For the next three hours the motorbike led them a nightmare chase over more than a hundred kilometres of mountain roads that were often little more than channels covered by scree and loose gravel , furrowed by rain-water and ridged by surfacing strata of rock . |
| 13 | Base surges spread out radially in all directions from the base of the rising ash column , rolling down the volcano at speeds of nearly a hundred kilometres per hour and covering an area of more than 230 square kilometres . |
| 14 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The sea had become a green-black pool spread with foam less than a hundred feet in circumference in which Trent steered by instinct . |
| 17 | Er approximately eight hundred hectares I think , and I suppose the cynical amongst us might might say what has the allocation of of nearly a hundred hectares of land adjacent to the A one , some of which is in in greenbelt , what has that got anything to do with the er vitality of of Leeds commercial centre or urban regeneration , but we accept that 's a that 's a matter for Leeds , we not objecting to their proposals . |
| 18 | There was no point in saying they were nothing to do with me , because I 'd got so many — just over a hundred charges of fraud and deception . |
| 19 | We had over , over a hundred women in fact , we had a fifty percent success rate , thirty nine , well almost thirty nine of these women stopped smoking and most of them , almost all , showed a tremendous improvement in fitness , in well being , and quite a few , I wo n't say everyone , felt that i , they were much more relaxed |
| 20 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 21 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 22 | He was speaking after one of his planes with just over a hundred Britons on board left Jordan with more half the seats empty because of diplomatic red tape . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They had a hundred pounds for Christmas day for Christmas bits . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've — I 've only got a hundred pounds in traveller 's cheques . |
| 26 | Maybe a hundred years of history and tradition will defeat us . |
| 27 | In A Hundred Years of Solitude we even sense that the writer wants to take us back into childhood , into the time when ‘ the world was … recent . ’ |
| 28 | If ruthlessly destroying a hundred years of tradition , not to mention a massive loss of capital , is ‘ pioneering ’ , than it must surely rank with the pioneering attempts of Stalin in purging Soviet libraries of all books that departed from his orthodoxy . |
| 29 | Mind you , with a hundred years of refinement and improvement behind it , you still ca n't afford to ignore good old ‘ Sutton Globe ’ . |
| 30 | A hundred years of missionary effort had failed utterly ; its only effect had been to confirm the Abyssinians in their attachment to their ancient faith and to sow in them the seeds of xenophobia . |