Example sentences of "a hundred [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not walked a hundred metres before she tripped over a loose stone and went crashing over a steep overhang . |
| 2 | He said fierce fighting was taking place near Bahdu and insisted I would need at least a hundred soldiers if I went there . |
| 3 | There were a hundred things that he knew he ought to say . |
| 4 | They are quick learners , and some cocks go on to vanquish more than a hundred opponents before they themselves miscalculate and die . |
| 5 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 6 | ‘ Child , I tell you a hundred times and you do n't hear me yet . |
| 7 | A hundred years since I was here . |
| 8 | Acknowledging the problems of information confidentiality and the need to retain machine-readable records for up to a hundred years before they can be publically released , it still seems feasible for the various interested parties to forge links in order to share expertise and avoid the needless duplication of effort . |
| 9 | Banbury had a completely new suburb significantly called Newland added to the older town between 1250 and 1285 , only a little over a hundred years after it had been first founded , a mark of its success , while Eynsham , also in Oxfordshire , has a neat rectangular block of properties , bisected by Newland Street which dates from 1215 when a charter was acquired for an extension . |
| 10 | It 'll close with the loss of at least a hundred jobs if it 's taken over by the Suffolk-based brewer Greene King . |
| 11 | So from London to King 's Lynn is , they say , a hundred miles and I 'll take their word for it , London to Ipswich in fact is seventy miles . |
| 12 | like you say you just get onto that right and it 's , that 's three hundred yards and you get the next one that 's two hundred yards and a hundred yards until you stop , to the junction |
| 13 | We go a hundred yards and I tell him to stop . |
| 14 | May you have a hundred pupils before you turn round . " |