Example sentences of "it [be] a hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If somebody 's saying to you do you want our guarantee — it 's fifty pounds , or it 's a hundred pounds — if you 're spending that sort of money you 'll probably pay out for it and you 'll think you 're covered for all sorts of things that might go wrong . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | I think it 's a hundred places , and there are about a thousand something sa |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I believe it is a hundred times better to have a leader who wants to go forward rather than one who retreats towards the hills when the going gets rough . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is a hundred jobs per hundred thousand square feet , that 's right . |
| 8 | It is a hundred miles from King 's lions |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was just like before , back at the jetty , only this time it was a hundred times worse . |
| 11 | It is less ritualized than it was a hundred years ago , but it serves the same purpose of recognizing the event . |
| 12 | It was a hundred years of Open Championships since the Belt was played for at Prestwick . |
| 13 | It was a hundred years later that electricity was first used . |
| 14 | this is as true today as it was a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 15 | Well it ought to be said that the world today , in this year nineteen ninety two , is a different place from what it was a hundred years ago . |