Example sentences of "than one hundred and [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the earliest and most famous of more than one hundred and sixty thrillers and mysteries from the phenomenal and rather strange Mr Edgar Wallace , and certainly one of the most accomplished , readable and ingenious of them all . |
| 2 | Nigel Mansell put in a scorching lap in the opening qualifying session … the fastest ever at the Northamptonshire track … he was almost two seconds quicker than his team mate Riccardo Patrese … recording an average speed of more than one hundred and forty-eight miles an hour . |
| 3 | Rostov was accustomed to his aide 's height — no Manchu was taller than one hundred and fifty centimetres — his colour , a unique golden yellow which was almost metallic in skin tone , and his oddly lengthened features . |
| 4 | From the enhanced provision of electronic delivery by the Document Supply Centre to a huge programme for retrospectively converting music , map and manuscript catalogues which have been created over a period of more than one hundred and fifty years , to the question of how to extend the provisions of the Copyright Act 1911 to include legal deposit of digital publications , the Library faces a formidable set of tasks arising from the electronic revolution . |
| 5 | The drivers are retracing the route of the Great Western Railway , built more than one hundred and fifty years ago . |
| 6 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 7 | At its height more than one hundred and fifty firemen tackled the blaze called from three counties . |
| 8 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |