Example sentences of "a hundred [noun pl] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there were a hundred reasons why he might have had to ask Lexy to make the phone call . |
| 2 | ‘ I know some are n't well off , but a hundred years ago they starved on the streets . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ A hundred years ago they were carried in after coming off their horses , or being knocked clown by carriages . |
| 4 | A hundred years ago they might have made sense , due to ignorance : like the child said , there 'd been talk of witches . |
| 5 | Over a hundred years ago they started making brass taps in the factory which is now Cooper Oils of Nailsworth . |
| 6 | are old and tired songs a hundred years ago they were on the go . |
| 7 | A hundred years on we are much less certain ; it all depends . |
| 8 | Early in the fourth century the Carthaginian clergy disapproved of a local lady addicted to the habit of venerating a martyr 's bone ; but a hundred years later we hear of only isolated protests . |
| 9 | In 1865 , the infant mortality rate was 154 per thousand live births ; a hundred years later it was 21.8 per thousand ( Registrar General , 1963 ) . |
| 10 | When the man eventually got home that day he told the assembled villagers of our meeting , and my warning , and said that after he had watched me go round a bend in the road a hundred yards away he started to light the cigarette I had given him . |
| 11 | It begins to get very cold and hats and pogies appear but we press on and soon after midnight portage Marlow ; a hundred yards downstream we find the campsite and land . |
| 12 | Heseltine was able to announce that he already had assurances of support from a hundred MPs when he formally declared his intention to contest the leadership . |