Example sentences of "of [adv] [art] hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The immense width of the two main roads , one with a minimum width of practically a hundred feet and the other of sixty-six feet , reflects the state of even the main roads before the days of the turnpikes and above all of the scientific roadmaking initiated by Metcalf and Macadam in the late eighteenth century . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | radiation has a range of about a hundred metres in air and is stopped by about five centimetres of lead or concrete . |
| 5 | To see reindeer in a natural setting visit the Cairngorms where there 's a herd of about a hundred animals . |
| 6 | Now he was criticising the discipline of the men of Tulagai 's personal guard : a force of about a hundred men which was maintained by every one of the Kha-Khan 's grandsons . |
| 7 | We were to mount a dummy attack on the R.A.F. airfield at Heliopolis , just outside Cairo , a distance of about a hundred miles across open desert … . |
| 8 | It had appeared in Caxton 's edition of Voragine 's The Golden Legend ( 1483 ) and in Wycliffe 's translation of about a hundred years before ; but the sobriquet is reserved for the Geneva version of the Bible , first printed there by Rouland Hall in 1560 . |
| 9 | So it was a , a , a firm of about a hundred years standing at that time . |
| 10 | Erm we have twenty people in , in a group and we go around and ask then how much post school technical and professional training they 've had , we would come out with an average group of a total of about a hundred years of post school professional and technical training . |
| 11 | A working week of over a hundred hours should have been ruinous for the libido , looking back . |
| 12 | When he finally reached Marseilles , he expected to find the fleet of over a hundred ships which he had commissioned in advance . |
| 13 | ‘ Just outside the village I discovered a quarry of over a hundred metres in diameter . |
| 14 | He claimed to have taken the informations of over a hundred witnesses , English and Irish . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , once the initial silting has taken place , the weathering of the ditch is very slow , and such experiments need to run for a period of over a hundred years to gain the maximum results . |
| 16 | He says the course is really tight and they reach speeds of over a hundred miles an hour . |
| 17 | A group of over a hundred supporters sang songs in honour of them : ‘ Mandela , you are like no other man ’ , they sang . |