Example sentences of "from [adv] [art] hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | In early April 1946 U Sein Ywet and I did a seven-days tour in the Delta in which we visited two towns and ten villages , listening to government officers , elders , headmen , and representatives from nearly a hundred villages , which convinced me that much more needed to be done for the towns and villages outside Rangoon . |
2 | Quite apart from nearly a hundred years of intensive research having failed to demonstrate such a cause of functional psychosis , there is another important reason why it is totally inappropriate to draw on analogy with the neurological diseases proper . |
3 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
4 | As I was picked from about a hundred applicants I think I did quite well . |
5 | From a height of 90 metres one looks down on an emerging pattern of roads , lakes and gardens , which will shortly be lined with pavilions from over a hundred countries . |
6 | Brian could afford to be affectionate , from over a hundred miles away . |