Example sentences of "for [adv] [art] hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | So you could say for exactly a hundred years we 've had a basic law designed to give us rights every time we go shopping . |
2 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
3 | ‘ See here , ’ said the doctor doubtfully , ‘ it is n't usual for a man to walk into an empty house at four in the morning and come out with another man 's cheque for nearly a hundred pounds . ’ |
4 | She has welcomed the oppressed and disowned of the world to this paranoiac dreamscape for nearly a hundred years . |
5 | At the north end of the aqueduct is the Leawood Pumping Station , where a beam engine installed in 1849 pumped water from the river to the canal for nearly a hundred years . |
6 | This was folded and stored in a paper envelope for nearly a hundred years , and the creases make it very unlikely we shall ever be able to play it on an original machine . |
7 | He built a prototype which for nearly a hundred years lay in the Smithsonian Institution , Washington DC . |
8 | Assuming there is no change in the relevant law , the data on which the aggregated tables is based will not be available for nearly a hundred years , and we have to keep this timescale in mind when planning for the future . |
9 | The ground heaved for about a hundred metres , more turf broke through and the smell increased . |
10 | Even if we did something like jumble sale clearance , and get people 's old clothes , you could sell that for about a hundred pounds a ton . |
11 | These coins give no immediate clues as to their place of minting or indeed their date , for similar coinage in the name of Alexander continued to be made on a large scale for about a hundred years after his death . |
12 | For about a hundred years following the publication of Lamarck 's book , the common dog-whelk was known as Purpura lapillus ( L. ) -the brackets to show that Linnaeus had described his type under a different generic name . |
13 | If we assume that the number of professional programmers , these are people who are competent to use and develop software , is roughly proportional to the number of commercial computers in operation , this means that if the trend continues , in ten years time , there will be a need for roughly a hundred times as many computer programmers than we 've got as present . |
14 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
15 | Periodic bouts of fixed or artificially determined exchange rates have been the curse of this country for almost a hundred years — by pricing our goods out of world markets and , through high interest rates , by forcing up the cost of capital here . |
16 | ‘ This place has been in the same family for over a hundred years , and it was going strong before that time . |
17 | A charming Canadian town nestling in the eternally lush and fertile Orotava Valley , whose beauty and mild climate have attracted visitors for over a hundred years . |
18 | I 'll give you another , it 's reckoned that ninety million tons of water , I 'll repeat that , ninety million tons of water , sufficient to supply the needs of this immediate area for over a hundred years , cascaded down off the moor that morning . |
19 | Although it was begun in the sixteenth-century the building was not actually completed for over a hundred years , the upper floor being added in the seventeenth-century . |
20 | The hardwoods from which English ships were usually built are more resistant to soakage and there are several instances of wooden ships afloat and in service for over a hundred years . |
21 | The ‘ Rochester ’ method of fingerspelling with speech and lip-reading has been in use in the USA for over a hundred years ( Savage , Evans and Savage , 1981 ) . |
22 | For over a hundred years , penal policy in this country has appeared to focus on custody . |
23 | ‘ Yes , I 've lived for over a hundred years , ’ replied the little old man proudly . |
24 | This remained the principal activity in the London money market for over a hundred years , until a wave of innovation hit the market in the late 1960s . |