Example sentences of "hundred were [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In England alone they survived , because the old courts of shire and hundred were defended by the comparatively powerful and comparatively centralized authority of the English and Anglo-Norman kings . |
| 2 | Only a few hundred were killed on the road each year ( about 4 per cent mortality ) , which , as the Table shows , is insignificant compared with the overall annual mortality rate of 50–60 per cent . |
| 3 | Officials say that nearly three hundred were injured in the storm , which reduced buildings to matchwood . |
| 4 | Three hundred were sold in the first two days . |
| 5 | Soon , however , over a hundred were identified with the movement which , by 1917 , had ‘ a very large and influential ’ Commons Committee under Wing 's chairmanship . |