Example sentences of "[num ord] hundred days " in BNC.

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1 In his second hundred days , he will have to discover how to turn his ideas into lasting achievements .
2 Wilson self-consciously capitalized on that supremacy in his ‘ First Hundred Days ’ of dynamic action , a deliberate imitation of the Kennedy style in early 1960 .
3 The measures to fulfil these three aims came in two main batches : in the frantic activity of the " First Hundred Days " from March to June 1933 , and in a second burst of legislation in 1935 .
4 ( 2 ) The First Hundred Days , March-June 1933
5 Inevitably , the pace of legislative change slowed down after the hectic activity of the first Hundred Days .
6 This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall .
7 That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war .
8 this is probably the test of the next hundred days .
9 He 's now we 're now going to face the test of John Major in the next hundred days .
10 He is just , I suppose , primus inter pares , as a Prime Minister , and erm that 's it is , as we 've both said , the next hundred days or so that you will probably see the real John Major .
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