Example sentences of "have [verb] a hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 32 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 33 | It had taken a hundred firemen from three counties to bring the blaze under control , and it destroyed half the British armed forces stock of parachutes.Senior Aircraftman Douglas Bailey had drunk the equivalent of seventeen pints of beer . |
| 34 | Athelstan stopped to compose himself before continuing : ‘ When it was over , my brother was dead and I had aged a hundred years . |
| 35 | And he says there was sixty , he says , he says he 's seen a hundred horses standing to get shod on a morning . |
| 36 | The kite string is making an angle of forty degrees there and it 's got a hundred metres of the line payed out . |
| 37 | Whose rev'rend Oaks have known a hundred Springs ; |
| 38 | We have to think a hundred years ahead , not just for the next year or two . |