Example sentences of "hundred [coord] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A whole new landscape would appear , not a totally level one I would suggest , but some hundred or so feet below the original . |
| 2 | Er the research found that there were three hundred or so students who registered with the health service but did n't re-register or did n't leave . |
| 3 | In contrast , residual vision in humans is usually tested with relatively fine stimuli presented for a hundred or so milliseconds . |
| 4 | I think he bowled a hundred or so deliveries for me before I got the images right . |
| 5 | The spectators were all either lining the 18th hole or watching the drama on one of the hundred or so TV sets in the Hospitality Units . |
| 6 | Their aim was to visit every one of the eight hundred or so families in the parish every year . |
| 7 | The only mandate that most electors consider they have given to newly-elected Members of Parliament is to support the party and its leader ; certainly , the Prime Minister expects , and usually gets , the support of the mass of the parliamentary majority party and the entire hundred or so members of the Government that is formed . |
| 8 | Their ministers ( if such a term can be used of the great officials such as the treasurers and hetmans of Poland and Lithuania ) were irremovable ; and the principle of the liberum veto meant that any of the two hundred or so members of the Diet ( Seym ) could nullify the work of an entire session by recording a single dissenting vote . |
| 9 | Such approaches , of course , were ordinarily difficult to resist , for a house never knew when royal gratitude might be of value to it in some application of its own or in some lawsuit ; a number of larger houses , like Bury St Edmunds in 1303 , even found themselves accommodating more than one royal corrodian ; furthermore , the recipients of these requests ranged far outside the hundred or so houses of which the king was patron . |
| 10 | A hundred or so houses sit on log stilts . |
| 11 | St Aldates hundred or so parishioners already contribute around two hundred pounds a week towards church funds . |
| 12 | On other , more inclusive counts there were not a hundred or so nationalities in the USSR ( the 1989 census recorded 128 ) but as many as 400 , or even 800 . |
| 13 | Again and again this arching leap is performed until a hundred or so eggs are fixed in an even carpet on the female 's back . |
| 14 | She had a track record of less than wonderful relationships , unpaid bills , and three hundred or so cassettes all in the wrong cases . |
| 15 | Of the six hundred or so communicants , Baxter said he had good hopes for the sincerity of the faith of all but twelve of them . |
| 16 | In chemical terms , though , the situation is much simpler , since all matter is composed of only a hundred or so elements . |
| 17 | Different numbers and arrangements of these particles form the hundred or so elements which occur on our planet . |
| 18 | For Byrd 's finest expression of religious emotion to English words we must turn to his Psalmes , Sonets and songs of Sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) , his Songs of sundrie natures ( 1589 ) , and his Psalmes , Songs and Sonnets ( 1611 ) , which include equivalents of the geistlicher Gesang and madrigale spirituale though often conceived with instrumental parts ; for his greatest church music to his two hundred or so motets . |
| 19 | Lineages also contributed to the expenses of funerals : members made a collection toward the cost of feeding the guests ; if the dead person was a well known and respected man , the household might have to provide two meals a day and continual tea for up to a week for a hundred or so visitors ( who sometimes brought a contribution of a sheep or tea or sugar ) . |
| 20 | Face to face meetings with parents and others is usually the best way to communicate but meeting two hundred or so parents on an individual basis to tell them the date of sports day is n't a practical or worthwhile activity . |
| 21 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 22 | the eight hundred or so staff have all been retained and I 'm sure it will help us to continue our penetration into the leisure and retail sectors . ’ |
| 23 | The 1841 census lists five hundred or so inmates , including Elizabeth Titford , who is described as being a needleworker . |
| 24 | The League had already declared that it would boycott the investiture and , when he stood up to speak , a hundred or so extremists began shouting and jeering , and dozens had to be dragged off by the police before he could be heard . |
| 25 | The field of study is a local community ; perhaps just a hundred or so individuals , seldom many more than 2000 . |
| 26 | Of the one hundred or so mosaics under examination only twenty are figured . |
| 27 | He thought people still enjoyed the simple retelling of the key mysteries of the faith , stories they knew and loved , and seeing a hundred or so Christians joining together in such a project could only commend the Church . |
| 28 | Ace opened the first cabinet , scanned the hundred or so labels quickly , selected the most recent crystal and fed it into a reader . |
| 29 | Routine administrative functions were sited in the free-standing towns and cities within a hundred or so miles of London . |
| 30 | In skirmishes on the rugged Norwegian mountains made dangerous by an early thaw , these companies screened the Allied operations a hundred or so miles to the north around Narvik . |