Example sentences of "[num] hundred [noun] were [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six hundred races were cancelled or rescheduled in 1987-88 and 800 last year , the worst on record . |
| 2 | Nothing much had happened in my life since the publication of my Carlo Fontana book nearly twenty years earlier ( though even that , as only three hundred copies were sold , was hardly a riot ) . |
| 3 | He came across a cave where three hundred partisans were quartered and fought side by side with them until the end of the war . |
| 4 | About three hundred libraries were chosen . |
| 5 | Five hundred copies were produced , and Miles believes they sold out within an hour . |
| 6 | More than five hundred discs were found at their homes , all of them illegal copies . |
| 7 | More than five hundred discs were found at their homes , all of them illegal copies . |
| 8 | In Village Number Three , where five hundred coolies were quartered , the men were packed so tight in their barracks that many of them slept and dozed seated upright . |
| 9 | Along with the hundred copies Hannah dealt with the following day for those who had been unable to reach Skipton the staggering figure of five hundred books were signed . |
| 10 | Five hundred people were employed by the company in the mid-nineteenth century , but after various changes in ownership , the Coalport business was moved to Staffordshire after the First World War , though the name was retained and the firm continued to prosper . |
| 11 | Last year three thousand five hundred trees were planted . |
| 12 | The original proposals were changed after over five hundred objections were lodged , mainly from traders worried that people would be scared away from some out-of-town shopping areas . |
| 13 | One hundred errors were collected from the work of a class of 9–10 year olds , writing about parachute jumping . |
| 14 | A substantial amount of information which is necessary and which indeed was asked for by members of your I believe at a previous oral question time erm as to the number that were printed you may be shocked to know that one hundred copies were made which means that the total cost of this , I think you will agree , very worthwhile public information , was four hundred and sixty one pounds and twenty one pence . |
| 15 | Only one hundred copies were printed . |
| 16 | We have also looked at the effect of volume on er mortality and major morbidity by comparing sites where fewer than one hundred cases were performed during the audit period , sites where more than one hundred cases were performed and we have also examined the effects upon mor mortality of both admission types and histology . |
| 17 | We have also looked at the effect of volume on er mortality and major morbidity by comparing sites where fewer than one hundred cases were performed during the audit period , sites where more than one hundred cases were performed and we have also examined the effects upon mor mortality of both admission types and histology . |
| 18 | This bar on the right hand side represents those sites where less than one hundred cases were performed during the eight month audit period , there were seven of these sites and they performed a total of four hundred and sixty eight operations . |
| 19 | In the first year one hundred families were housed through the scheme . |
| 20 | A further one hundred questionnaires were sent out to develop and validate these vignettes , and an analysis of the questionnaires resulted in the development of eight distinct styles of information use , pupils matched to these eight styles by their teachers have been interviewed and differences in the way these pupils talked about tackling two assignments in different subjects are currently being analysed . |
| 21 | During the lunchtime break those present were entertained by the Margate Drum Majorettes , one hundred balloons were released and a raffle was drawn . |
| 22 | Fifteen hundred establishments were surveyed , ranging in size from employing less than 25 to more than 500 , and spanning lo sectors of the Revised Standard Classification of Industry . |
| 23 | Nine hundred prisoners were slaughtered on the battlefield and as Arundell was escorted from Cornwall to the Tower of London , he saw many a miserable peasant dangling from a crossroads gibbet . |
| 24 | It is no , it is no coincidence that in a question asked today to the Labour Party , we will find that we a year ago when the Tory 's proposals were still being implemented , over eleven hundred people were granted in the right to buy their own Council house . |
| 25 | In 1990 , eight hundred badgers were killed in this way , many of those were TB free , but by the time that was discovered the badgers were already dead . |
| 26 | Two thousand eight hundred objections were received after the council announced its plans to site its new town hall at the Hazelbank park . |
| 27 | The Battle of the Belmont Stockade , or Sloop 's Bight , as it came to be known , was a defeat from which Liamuiga 's people would not recover : more than four hundred warriors were killed , among them Tiguary , their leader , shot through the bowels . |
| 28 | During the course of one week four hundred guests were booked into a hotel . |
| 29 | TWO hundred motorists were trapped by Mersey tunnels police in an rush-hour blitz on lane dodging today . |
| 30 | Some two hundred periti were summoned to the first session , but by April 1963 the number had reached 348 . |