Example sentences of "[verb] one hundred and [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sold one or two bobble hats , then moved one hundred and fifty miles away . |
| 2 | Being asked how he knew this he says that each carucate of land by the custom of the district contains one hundred and four score acres of arable land , which quantity there is not in that Manor . |
| 3 | The bibliography , with abbreviations used in the text , is comprehensive and covers one hundred and twenty works ranging from the second edition of the commentaries on Dioscorides 's Materia medica by Pierandrea Mattioli , printed in Venice in 1558 , to the second edition of Linnaeus 's Species Plantarum , published in Stockholm in 1765 . |
| 4 | The ‘ Bloody Friday ’ atrocity of 21st July 1972 in which Provisional IRA bombs had killed sixteen people and injured one hundred and twenty others . |
| 5 | ‘ Car number three cost one hundred and eleven pounds and sold for nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds and fifty pence . ’ |
| 6 | Her first programme covered a period of fifty-four days , attracted one hundred and sixty-one students and involved the enrolment of thirty volunteers to act as auxiliary staff and course tutors . |
| 7 | now if you 're a football fan you 'll have been crossing the days out on the calendar for a couple of months now … the supporters scarf will have been washed and ironed and sitting ready for weeks … and by my calculation you 've only got one hundred and sixteen hours left to the big kick off … so here 's a taster |
| 8 | They testified that they had supervised one hundred and seven interviews in connection with them and examined several hundred telephone calls from the public and that not once had Beattie been mentioned . |
| 9 | Today rebels attempted to persuade one hundred and forty workers who 'd not yet signed the agreement to battle on , but they failed in their bid to stop them from signing the deal . |
| 10 | The Conservative government of Edward Heath had expelled one hundred and five KGB agents in 1971 who were operating under diplomatic cover and there was reluctance to have the old situation restored . |
| 11 | A questionnaire circulated by the Friends has identified one hundred and forty children living close to the school whose parents would wish nursery provision for them . |
| 12 | He did n't pay any tax on it , so he 'd only get one hundred and forty back — including his stake . ’ |
| 13 | Without even glancing in the mirror , he crossed the inner and middle lanes into the fast lane and , in fewer than ten seconds the speedometer needle was registering one hundred and fifteen miles an hour , but Mark was oblivious of the fact . |
| 14 | The idea was that each film should have a $3 million budget limitation , be in colour and not exceed one hundred and forty minutes , have a rating of G , PG or R , and star or co-star the actor or actress involved . |
| 15 | As the decade came to a close the BDDA had one hundred and thirty-nine branches spread across the country — one hundred and eighteen in England , thirteen in Scotland , six in Wales and two in Ireland — and , as we shall see in the next chapter , was poised to make one of the most important decisions of the first century . |
| 16 | Yes , that is correct erm in my experience er both being erm on armed incidents er the adrenalin flow is tremendous , the officers are erm concentrating one hundred and fifty percent on their task in hand and it is very tiring work . |
| 17 | Five feet high and weighing one hundred and seventy pounds , a veritable Humpty Dumpty of a woman , Mrs Stych had no hope of ever being able to wear pants gracefully . |
| 18 | I remember writing a feature for the ’ Anglers Mail ’ around 1974 entitled ’ The Night I Missed One Hundred and Sixty-seven Bites ’ . |
| 19 | Of the approximate one and a half thousand pounds from the sale of the Volvo , minus expenses , that he regarded legitimately as his , added to the four thousand in he and Zoe 's joint account , there remained one hundred and seventy pounds . |