Example sentences of "[num] hundred [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six hundred youngsters gathered at a massive party to help raise cash for the clinic — now the most successful in the world . |
| 2 | Lot a hundred and twenty eight is the snuff box now showing , thank you , Lot one two eight and I have six hundred pounds offered , fifty , seven hundred and fifty , eight hundred eight hundred pounds , any more ? |
| 3 | Lot number seventy eight Lot seventy eight a patinated bronze teapot there 's the bronze teapot a hundred pounds at one hundred and ten , twenty , one hundred and twenty pounds at one hundred and twenty pounds , one thirty , forty , fifty , sixty , seventy , eighty ninety , two hundred two twenty bid I 'm offered two hundred and twenty to my right and selling for two twenty , two forty two sixty , two eighty three hundred and twenty three fifty three eighty four hundred and twenty four fifty , eighty five hundred and fifty six hundred six hundred pounds offered anybody else at six hundred pounds still to my right at six hundred pounds . |
| 4 | Six hundred senators chosen for life ruled the city : they had to be married , to have children and to be sons and grandsons of citizens . |
| 5 | There was erm a total of two thousand six hundred units allocated to Brian which we thought |
| 6 | Six hundred nomes spat on their hands and grasped the edge of the heavy sheet . |
| 7 | I had a cheque for some thirteen hundred pounds raised by the local branch of National body , a body like Round Table , although it was n't Round Table , it was another body like that , and that will buy thirteen houses in Everland in Southern India . |
| 8 | Lot six a Canton card case this the card case showing I 've got several offers I 've got to start at three hundred pounds got that in several places three hund three twenty , three fifty , eighty , four hundred I bid four hundred , four twenty , four fifty at four hundred and fifty pounds , anybody else ? |
| 9 | Lot eighty two an Edison Amberola seventy five now on the screen , Lot eighty two and I have three hundred pounds offered for this , any more ? |
| 10 | Lot one hundred and ten barrel organ showing at the back screen now , Lot one hundred and ten and I have three hundred pounds offered , twenty , three fifty , three eighty three hundred and eighty pounds , any more ? |
| 11 | Lot one two three is black composition snuff box , there it is now , Lot one two three and I have three hundred pounds offered for this and twenty three fifty three eighty , four hundred four hundred pounds and twenty , four fifty four fifty with me now , any more at four hundred and fifty pounds , any more at four fifty ? |
| 12 | One hundred and thirty four er Bordier box , there it is , Lot one three four it 's illustrated in the catalogue a small box with a , Lot one three four and I have three hundred pounds offered for it , three hundred pounds and twenty , three fifty , three eighty , four hundred , and twenty , four fifty , four eighty five hundred and fifty , six hundred and fifty , seven hundred and fifty eight hundred and fifty near the back in the aisle at eight hundred and fifty now nine hundred nine fifty nine hundred and fifty , any more ? |
| 13 | Three hundred masons learned from us . |
| 14 | So maybe they only spend ten hours , instead of three hundred hours spent by the Red Arrows . |
| 15 | He says the problem with some Eastern European teams is that maybe they only spend ten hours , instead of three hundred hours spent by the Red Arrows . |
| 16 | When I was a shepherd I could easily tell , out of three hundred lambs born in a night , which lamb belonged to which mother . |
| 17 | If many of Hewlett 's correspondents felt as Mrs Lowndes did , this explains why Hewlett 's letters as edited by Laurence Binyon ( 1925 ) make such unexciting reading ; she herself records that of the three hundred letters printed by Binyon there was only one ‘ which I felt to be characteristic of the man I knew so well ’ . |
| 18 | He may have a brief with correspondence numbering two or three hundred letters delivered to him the night , or two nights , before the case begins , and all the facts must be mastered before he goes into court . |
| 19 | Altogether it has three hundred buildings listed as being of architectural and historical interest . |
| 20 | If there are two or three hundred people left outside trying to get in , there is a certain excitement surrounding the gig . |
| 21 | All of those factors lead the City Council to the view that the current level of residual given emerging government advice , the City Council could no longer support the idea of a new settlement of something like fourteen hundred dwellings set in the countryside beyond the outer edge of the York greenbelt . |
| 22 | It generates paper in sickening profusion ; it makes unconscionable demands on the heroes of the piece , the thirteen or fourteen hundred volunteers drawn mainly from ‘ that two-handed engine ’ we pompously call the binary system of higher education … but with all its faults the system works . |
| 23 | From that page eight , we can gleam the fact that seven , seventeen hundred stewards attended a total of a hundred and twenty four courses in nineteen ninety two . |
| 24 | Five hundred deputies called for a session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to formalize the dissolution of the Soviet Union , but the call was not heeded . |
| 25 | Lot thirty eight is the mahogany Monarch with brass horn now showing , thank you , I 've five hundred pounds offered , any more at five hundred ? |
| 26 | Lot one hundred and eighteen singing bird box now showing , Lot one hundred and eighteen for which I have five hundred pounds offered and fifty , six hundred and fifty , seven hundred and fifty , eight hundred and fifty , nine hundred at nine hundred on the right there , any more ? |
| 27 | Lot a hundred and thirty eight silver gilt box with micro-mosaic , there it is now showing , thank you and I have one thousand five hundred pounds offered to start me , six hundred , seven hundred , one thousand eight hundred , nine hundred , two thousand two thousand pounds , two thousand one hundred two thousand two hundred , three hundred thousand four hundred , five hundred , two thousand six hundred on my left at two thousand six hundred pounds , any more ? |
| 28 | In September 1948 , a committee , chosen by the assembly , drew up the Basic Law which laid the foundation of a constitution , the main legislative body ( Bundestag ) with nearly five hundred members elected every four years , and an upper house ( Bundesrat ) of forty-five members composed of representatives of the state government . |
| 29 | In 1915 the first major demonstration of the war had taken place in Berlin , when five hundred housewives protested before the Reichstag that the quality of whipped cream was not up to pre-1914 standards . |
| 30 | But what I do say is I am a trustee I am a trustee not of farmer 's land not of your land Mr , not of your land Mr not of your land Mr every person in Leicestershire owns that land , they have got a mark and I 'll tell you sir four thousand five hundred signatures made in one weekend are saying to us you are a trustee of our land , it 's not your land , our land I keep hearing , it 's our land it 's not our land it 's the people of Leicestershire 's land and what the people of Leicestershire land are saying to us sir , they 're saying to us you can not continue this barbaric killing of foxes . |