Example sentences of "hundred [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two hundred years later the same law firm has been instrumental in the removal of tolls from Selby , one of Yorkshire 's most infamous toll bridges . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Some hundred years later the great revival of regional specialities is initiated by a band of patriotic French men of letters fearful that the post-1918 influx of tourists demanding international palace hotel food ( it is , alas , le classique which has opened the door to this dreariest of all styles of cooking ) wherever they go will end in the annihilation of the typical specialities of the provinces of France . |
| 4 | Gunpowder had been in widespread use in Europe in mining and quarrying since the early seventeenth century , but two hundred years later the techniques available for detonating the charges were still very primitive . |
| 5 | A hundred years later the same ideas were still widespread . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | About one hundred years ago the EMMS directors were given the responsibility of running the Hawthornbrae Trust which currently exists to provide holiday grants to Edinburgh residents who are recovering from illness and who would not otherwise be able to afford even a short holiday break . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Two hundred years ago the estate 's area supported 1,500 people , and everyone had venison as a right . |
| 10 | Three hundred years ago the place was a badstube , where you tethered your horse outside ( the posts are still there ) and took advantage of all these services which were available . |
| 11 | Two hundred years ago the villages looked quite different . |
| 12 | A hundred years ago the Cotswolds were transformed from a run-down rural backwater into a world-renowned centre for arts and crafts . |
| 13 | Since ballooning was invented by the Montgolfier brothers more than two hundred years ago the sport has changed . |
| 14 | In three hundred years only the trees had changed , growing older , dying , replaced by others of their own ancient seed . |
| 15 | Had I taken up my station on the same day two , three or even four hundred years earlier the same spectacle would have presented itself , completely unchanged . |
| 16 | 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 . |