Example sentences of "in a hundred [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His black hair lies in a hundred casual curls . |
| 2 | ‘ He proves it in a hundred other ways . |
| 3 | ‘ Until the Butler Act began to take effect in the 70 's and 80's , Britain was outstanding among industrial countries as the home and fount of nepotism in a hundred subtle forms . ’ |
| 4 | During the most active phase , from March 1811 to February 1812 , 1,000 frames were destroyed in a hundred separate attacks , and a worried government responded by making machine breaking a capital felony and despatching 2,000 troops to Nottingham . |
| 5 | Stray whispers in a hundred distant-cousin tongues twittered through the ship , as if voices were trying to inform him of his fate , the ghost echoes from a million previous passengers , ten million down the centuries that this ship had been in service . |
| 6 | Just before Christmas when she was twelve , she had her hair plaited in a hundred little plaits with a bead on the end of each plait . |
| 7 | For those seeking bhavana , it is ready to be discerned in a hundred daily occurrences : it will be manifested in a small or generous action ; and there is a joy in the mere searching for this bhavana in the everyday world . |
| 8 | You can use one guitar in a hundred different ways if you can hear the sound . |
| 9 | Truly , history can be written in a hundred different ways . |
| 10 | Truly , reviews can be written in a hundred different ways . |
| 11 | The same scenario had played itself out in a hundred different ways when she was a child . |