Example sentences of "hundred [conj] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A whole new landscape would appear , not a totally level one I would suggest , but some hundred or so feet below the original . |
| 2 | I think he bowled a hundred or so deliveries for me before I got the images right . |
| 3 | Their aim was to visit every one of the eight hundred or so families in the parish every year . |
| 4 | The only mandate that most electors consider they have given to newly-elected Members of Parliament is to support the party and its leader ; certainly , the Prime Minister expects , and usually gets , the support of the mass of the parliamentary majority party and the entire hundred or so members of the Government that is formed . |
| 5 | Their ministers ( if such a term can be used of the great officials such as the treasurers and hetmans of Poland and Lithuania ) were irremovable ; and the principle of the liberum veto meant that any of the two hundred or so members of the Diet ( Seym ) could nullify the work of an entire session by recording a single dissenting vote . |
| 6 | Such approaches , of course , were ordinarily difficult to resist , for a house never knew when royal gratitude might be of value to it in some application of its own or in some lawsuit ; a number of larger houses , like Bury St Edmunds in 1303 , even found themselves accommodating more than one royal corrodian ; furthermore , the recipients of these requests ranged far outside the hundred or so houses of which the king was patron . |
| 7 | On other , more inclusive counts there were not a hundred or so nationalities in the USSR ( the 1989 census recorded 128 ) but as many as 400 , or even 800 . |
| 8 | Face to face meetings with parents and others is usually the best way to communicate but meeting two hundred or so parents on an individual basis to tell them the date of sports day is n't a practical or worthwhile activity . |
| 9 | Of the one hundred or so mosaics under examination only twenty are figured . |
| 10 | Routine administrative functions were sited in the free-standing towns and cities within a hundred or so miles of London . |
| 11 | In addition to its hundred or so miles of beaches , the Algarve boasted all manner of interesting places , and it was a crime that she and Thomas were unable to visit them . |
| 12 | In skirmishes on the rugged Norwegian mountains made dangerous by an early thaw , these companies screened the Allied operations a hundred or so miles to the north around Narvik . |
| 13 | In America Dr James Tyler Kent was appalled by such modifications , feeling that many of the practices which Hahnemann had campaigned against had crept into the practice of homoeopathy itself in the one hundred or so years since its rediscovery . |
| 14 | Further , the claim is made that his criterion has withstood tests against episodes from the last two hundred or so years of physics in a superior way to rival criteria that have been proposed . |