Example sentences of "a hundred [noun pl] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I then proceeded to vandalise nearly a hundred pounds ' worth of golf club .
2 Melanie opened her eyes and saw thorns among roses , as if she woke from a hundred years ' night , la belle au bois dormante , imprisoned in a century 's steadily burgeoning garden .
3 Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts .
4 In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me .
5 In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me .
6 And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better .
7 In a hundred years ' time a solitary figure might well be seen on a lonely road gazing down into the valley , wondering about ‘ Little Hintock ’ .
8 In a hundred years ' time your Fuselis will look as old as they are , not as old as they should be .
9 People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different .
10 And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time .
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