Example sentences of "a hundred [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hundred years ago the average person ate less than 25 per cent fat in their diet ; today half our energy is derived from fat in different forms . |
| 2 | A hundred years ago the reports of travellers , colonial officials and missionaries were , with a few striking exceptions , amateur works which , however well-intentioned , often conveyed a misleading and partial picture . |
| 3 | A hundred years ago the Cotswolds were transformed from a run-down rural backwater into a world-renowned centre for arts and crafts . |
| 4 | Almost a hundred years later the Levellers , in the Putney debates , were to reach deadlock over the problem whether men without an assured livelihood could be admitted to the political nation . |
| 5 | A hundred years later the same ideas were still widespread . |
| 6 | For about a hundred years following the publication of Lamarck 's book , the common dog-whelk was known as Purpura lapillus ( L. ) -the brackets to show that Linnaeus had described his type under a different generic name . |