| We learn from the record kept at the Freedmen's Bureau, that there are two thousand two hundred children here. |
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| The restructuring is expected to result in the redundancy of several hundred workers. |
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| She was beatified by the Pope one hundred years after her death. |
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| One hundred evacuees spent the night at a school during the storm. |
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| The Ring of Fire is named after the several hundred active volcanoes that sit above the various subduction zones. |
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| Five hundred five respondents and 882 nonrepliers were personally interviewed. |
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| Lawrence, though, had become so tired of the work that he allowed Edward Garnett to cut about a hundred pages from the text. |
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| There, where the strength of one or two hundred men can be applied to one and the same effort, the labor is not intermittent, but continuous. |
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| Henry Purcell's family lived just a few hundred yards west of Westminster Abbey from 1659 onwards. |
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| There was nothing the matter with the mechanicals of Dan's car even now, after a two hundred foot plunge into a canyon. |
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| In just over a year, it received a hundred performances in Britain, America and continental Europe. |
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| Originally called the Theatre Royal, it served primarily as a playhouse for the first hundred years of its history. |
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| In 1999, it was adjudged by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts as one of the hundred best British films of the 20th century. |
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| Music libraries vary in size from a few hundred tracks up to many thousands. |
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| Membership was restricted to the proprietors or shareholders, and ranged from a dozen or two to between four and five hundred. |
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| As of 2009 over six hundred women's internationals have been played by over forty different nations. |
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| Conversely, even a highly successful Thoroughbred may be sold by the pound for a few hundred dollars to become horsemeat. |
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| Vaughan powered on, making his hundred after 206 minutes to become the first man in the series to get a century. |
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| Over one hundred Test matches have been played at Lord's, the first in 1884 when England defeated Australia by an innings and 5 runs. |
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| Eleven national teams and four hundred competitors took part in six sports. |
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| The meeting went ahead, a hundred names were registered and a committee was formed. |
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| Some are very short, only ten miles, while others can be up to one hundred miles. |
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| There are a few races that are even longer than one hundred miles and last multiple days. |
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| The diplomatic philosophy behind the League represented a fundamental shift from the preceding hundred years. |
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| One hundred and one UN personnel died in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the worst loss of life in the organization's history. |
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| More than one hundred chansons de geste have survived in around three hundred manuscripts. |
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| For several hundred years, each has had its own separate legislature, government and judicial system. |
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| It was the first time that Ireland had bowled out a county for less than a hundred. |
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| Despite sharing a monarchy, Scotland and England continued as separate countries with separate parliaments for over one hundred more years. |
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| Consisting of the disinherited noblemen and mercenaries, they were probably no more than a few hundred men strong. |
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| Three hundred Irish troops successfully landed at Kintyre to add to Dundee's forces. |
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| Eleven people were killed and several hundred injured, the event later to become known as the Peterloo Massacre. |
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| Two thousand five hundred tickets were printed for the opening day, all of which were bought. |
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| The three major firms BASF, Bayer and Hoechst produced several hundred different dyes, along with the five smaller firms. |
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| According to various sources, several hundred thousand Greeks died during this period, which was tied in with the Greek Genocide. |
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| He mistrusted my youth, my common-sense, and my seamanship, and made a point of showing it in a hundred little ways. |
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| The historic counties of Wales are ancient subdivisions of Wales, used for various functions for several hundred years. |
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| In 1999, the Labour government brought forward the House of Lords Act removing the right of several hundred hereditary peers to sit in the House. |
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| Three hundred and sixty ships sailed in seven columns, each steamer towing two sailing ships. |
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| According to some US NGO reports, there were also several hundred Iranian Revolutionary Guards assisting the Bosnian government during the war. |
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| One series in Glasgow was scheduled for a dozen plays but proved so popular they eventually had over a hundred. |
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| It is believed that about one hundred and seventy of his poems have survived, though many others have been attributed to him over the centuries. |
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| Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dillman entertained two hundred guests this evening with a musicale at Playa Rienta, their ocean front home. |
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| Indeed, Pinafore was so successful that over a hundred unauthorised productions sprang up in America alone. |
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| As is the case with northerns, the female muskie, trailed by her attendant males, may broadcast eggs over several hundred yards. |
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| From July 1790 to October 1793, his name appears in the registry of the academy over a hundred times. |
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| In this period, British socialism was a small, fledgling and vaguely defined movement, with only a few hundred adherents. |
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| The opening night party was a lavish affair, attended by six hundred celebrities. |
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| For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. |
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| A modern Namghar is an open rectangular hall having accommodation for five hundred to fifteen hundred people. |
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| One hundred and thirty three international players were killed during the conflict. |
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| Reportedly, the hurling match attracted a crowd of five hundred Irish immigrants, while the Orange march shivered out of existence. |
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| Several hundred million people are pastoralists, mostly in Africa and Asia. |
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| In 1840, one hundred of those residents who did not have passports were arrested, leading to the Graham affair. |
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| Print media industry is highly developed in Argentina, with more than two hundred newspapers. |
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| It is estimated Surrey lost one hundred knights and five thousand infantrymen in the slaughter at Stirling Bridge. |
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| At the same time, Edward de Brus was reinforced by Moray who had returned from Scotland with around five hundred fresh troops and supplies. |
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| The assassins seized the castle and eventually their families and friends took refuge with them, about a hundred and fifty men in all. |
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| In 1700, there were about 9,600 slaves in the Chesapeake region and a few hundred in the Carolinas. |
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| In 1650, estimates put Maryland's total population near six hundred, with fewer than two hundred women present. |
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| The Clearances were a complex series of events occurring over more than a hundred years. |
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| The Five Swans design of Otto Eckmann appeared in more than one hundred different versions. |
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| The library collection contains over a million volumes and over two hundred thousand rare and antique books. |
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| Over a hundred basins, now dry or nearly so, were overflowing in the North American west. |
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| Niphon, the chief island, is nine hundred miles long, and one hundred miles in average width. |
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| The capacity for selfing in these fishes has apparently persisted for at least several hundred thousand years. |
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| In 2007, a hundred local sheep farmers gathered at Kerry airport to protest the eagles' arrival. |
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| In China, a few hundred beavers are known to live in the basin of the Ulungur River, near the Mongolian border. |
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| Most exchanges copied the model, which was used for the next few hundred years. |
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| The range of varying values for these banknotes was perhaps from one string of cash to one hundred at the most. |
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| There are over a hundred clubs and societies formally affiliated with the students' association. |
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| Typically, several hundred bands attend, traveling from all over the world. |
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| The first Old Firm match was won by Celtic and there have been over four hundred matches played to date. |
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| They range in length from less than a meter to several hundred meters long. |
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| The kingdom was administered under Welsh custom through thirteen Cantrefi each containing, in theory, one hundred settlements or Trefi. |
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| Had Caernarfon been completed as intended, it would have been able to contain a royal household of several hundred people. |
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| For several hundred years the valley of the River Taff was heavily wooded, with a few scattered farms on the mountain slopes. |
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| Pennant owned vast properties in Caernarfonshire and six sugar plantations in Jamaica, where he owned over six hundred slaves. |
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| The city was once a marcher borough, within which lay the hundred of Dewisland. |
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| The brightest natural radio sources have flux densities of the order of one to one hundred jansky. |
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| In Eastern Europe, densities of up to a hundred individuals per hectare have been recorded. |
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| And her norks! Like a hundred times bigger than his sister's. Why was he thinking about his sister's norks? Gross. |
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| The teeth are very small and numerous, and often number one hundred per row. |
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| Over six hundred Bronze Age barrows and cairns, of various types, have been identified all over Glamorgan. |
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| Doctor Who has been nominated for over 200 awards and has won over a hundred of them. |
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| There had been an historic use of Welsh in the WI, and with over two hundred and fifty branches in Wales this decision was unpopular. |
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| Lefse, traditionally a Scandinavian flatbread, has been handed down to descendants for over a hundred years and is common on the table. |
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| This was stone cut from the mountainside for nearly two hundred years but which wasn't good enough to make roof slates. |
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| Bobby was ready to rock and roll with a full tilt bluff. He pushed three hundred thousand in chips into the pot. |
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| The town has a wide range of eating places and public houses, as well as more than one hundred other retail businesses. |
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| These populations are separated by inhospitable terrain, and adults rarely travel distances greater than a few hundred metres. |
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| This trophont is considered parasitic, contains thousands of cells, and can be several hundred micrometers in length. |
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| After the removal of cats from Ascension Island, seabirds began to nest there again for the first time in over a hundred years. |
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| They are social animals, most commonly found in groups of less than ten, but sometimes in much larger associations of over a hundred individuals. |
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| Several hundred more were probably caught by American and European whalemen in the Sea of Okhotsk from the 1840s to the early 20th century. |
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| Prize money ranges from a few hundred euro to several thousand for top dogs. |
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| If Eskimos have a hundred words for snow, fibromyalgics should have a hundred words for pain. |
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| The government bailout of that corporation is going to cost the taxpayers a hundred billion dollars. |
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| Don't make me waste my time! You are one hundred years too early to be an opponent worthy of fighting me! |
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| The New York-style hot dog I love has been around for well over a hundred years. |
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| The outside of the Hyatt was bedlam. There was a group of more than a hundred injured people on the circular drive in front of the hotel. |
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| There were as many as one hundred thousand benefices offered during the period of his papacy, according to one chronicler and eyewitness. |
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| Over the past two hundred years the English language has risen, seemingly irresistably, to its present position of world-bestriding supremacy. |
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| He stared at but did not see the bleared reflection of the flanking cherubs a hundred feet above the steel-grey veneer of water. |
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| A hundred yards away a cluster of boys on the deck of a sturdy cabin-cruiser swung their caps and sent a hail across. |
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| I doubt if one of them was interested in any business the total capitalization of which exceeded a couple of hundred thousand dollars. |
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| I cast up the notches on my post, and found I had been on shore three hundred and sixty-five days. |
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| A hundred, a thousand, few, many, are to be considered as collective nouns, and distinguished as such, by the singular article. |
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| Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. |
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| I found that we had nearly a hundred bushels of corn, including wheat, maize, and barley, to add to our store. |
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| Townsend was five hundred miles from his base, outnumbered, cumbered with sick and wounded. He faced disaster. |
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| You can figure for yourself what a darb of a setup that was for us seven hundred professional killers! |
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| The stake now meant the winner got two hundred pounds, and the money was handed over the bar. |
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| Two hundred decentish, rather subdued-looking people were sitting packed on long wooden benches. |
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| The British picked up a decode in November 1942 indicating that guards at Auschwitz would need six hundred gas masks. |
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| It was seventy-five below zero. Since the freezing-point is thirty-two above zero, it meant that one hundred and seven degrees of frost obtained. |
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| I go shooting there every year, and it is worth five hundred roubles a desyatina cash down, and he is paying you two hundred on long term. |
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| Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. |
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| The blue men of Mica II discriminated against Earthies, considered them inferior since the Micans had conquered the Earthies a hundred years ago. |
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| No grown-up people, no babies, no girls. It was a world of boys, eleventy and a hundred strong. |
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| A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool. |
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| He had a hundred similar tricks, but I never knew him fake a horse, or sell one as sound if it was not. |
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| A hundred trumpets fanfared as they entered, echoing brazenly in the black vault above. |
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| It will not be easy to guard a hundred miles' length of ferriable river against him. |
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| Then Christmas Day dawned, and there was Vicksburg lifted two hundred feet above the fever swamps, her court-house shining in the morning sun. |
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| Progressively, the F.L.N. had indeed begun to impose discipline upon the some four hundred thousand Algerian workers in metropolitan France. |
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| His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot. |
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| The Yankees had burned the bridge but she knew of a footlog bridge across a narrow point of the stream a hundred yards below. |
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| The hard drive broke down, so I forked out five hundred dollars for a new one. |
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| Arnold, therefore, as usual with him, led the forlorn hope, marching about one hundred yards before the main body. |
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| Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore. |
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| On his bleached worn face are ploughed the furrowings of one hundred and twenty years. |
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| For example, several hundred papyrus volumes found in a Roman villa at Herculaneum are in Greek. |
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| I am nobody to futz around with when I know myself to be four hundred per cent in the right. |
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| The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship. |
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| One hundred fifty Gothics sold over 1.5 million copies a month last spring. |
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| And it's not just the great unhosed. These raiders all earn over two hundred thousand pounds a year in big banks. |
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| The water was clear as crystal, and floating in it were eight hundred groopers, of from five to fifteen pounds weight each. |
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| Delgard got out the handkerchief again and blew his nose loud enough to alert any bird or groundling within several hundred yards. |
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| Asia estimated that by June 2006 the number of deaths attributed to guolaosi in China had reached six hundred thousand per year. |
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| If you're sure of a gut shot, the buck will usually be bedded within five hundred yards of where it was hit. |
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| According to local legend, a ghost has haunted the mansion for two hundred years. |
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| The hospital transmitted over six hundred healthcare claims to BCBS yesterday. |
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| For the next couple hundred years, the restless Goths were a menace to the Roman Empire. |
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| With three ships and one hundred and eighty men they landed near Ecuador and sailed to Tumbes, finding the place destroyed. |
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| The next two hundred years were occupied in trying to conquer these territories from the Byzantine Empire. |
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| Some of the largest such magnates held several hundred fees, in a few cases in more than one county. |
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| The numbers 1, 2 and 3 and every whole hundred from 200 to 900 are declined as nouns and adjectives, with some differences. |
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| This improvement allowed as many as one hundred sinkijons to be mounted on the hwacha, boosting the overall firepower and mobility of the rocket. |
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| After lighting a common fuse, the hwacha fired as many as a hundred arrows, all of which landed in a precise spot. |
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| The Roman inhabitants sought reinforcements from the procurator, Catus Decianus, but he sent only two hundred auxiliary troops. |
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| The ice cap of Kilimanjaro is shrinking, and some researchers believe it will disappear within the next one hundred years. |
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| As we have seen, even a hundred years ago icestorms could have a devastating effect on electric service in a major metropolitan area. |
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| Much scholarship in the past several hundred years has gone into comparing different manuscripts in order to reconstruct the original text. |
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| Fleeing his master, he travelled to a port, two hundred miles away, where he found a ship and with difficulty persuaded the captain to take him. |
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| From the 10th century onwards the hundred became important as a court of justice as well as dealing with matters of local administration. |
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| Due to later migrations, Finnish, Yiddish and Romani have also been spoken for over a hundred years. |
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| The average number of children in charge is about 90. One hundred and fifty could be accommodated. |
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| The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland. |
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| Both parties met in front of the Castle, the torch-bearers numbering nearly one hundred. |
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| The feudal system was slowly disintegrating throughout the hundred years war. |
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| Richard's force was driven several hundred yards away from Tudor, near to the edge of a marsh. |
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| He planned the establishment of a large chantry chapel in York Minster, with over one hundred priests. |
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| Apart from permanent garrisons at Berwick, Calais, and Carlisle, England's standing army numbered only a few hundred men. |
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| The robbers had probably taken out one hundred dollars for present use, and fifty for the snare which was to intrap the captain of the yacht. |
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| In its first century and half, the EIC used a few hundred soldiers as guards. |
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| A squadron of French ships, carrying eight hundred naval infantry, attempted retaliation but made little headway. |
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| There were about a hundred thousand European settlers in the country, at that time, about half of them French. |
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| The town of Wall stands today as it has stood for six hundred years, on a high jut of granite amidst a small forest woodland. |
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| Bryanthus, a beautiful flowering heathwort, flourishes a few hundred feet above the timberline, accompanied with kalmia and spiraea. |
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| For more than six hundred years, Karaim has been spoken as a community language in what is today Lithuania. |
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| The party however failed to continue its representation at the 2016 election, coming within a hundred votes of taking a seat in East Antrim. |
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| A civil parish can range in size from a large town with a population of around 80,000 to a single village with fewer than a hundred inhabitants. |
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| Liverpool historically lay within the ancient hundred of West Derby in the south west of the county of Lancashire. |
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| Above Langney Sands, the river abruptly narrows to a hundred yards, the sands diminish and the channel occupies the whole of the river. |
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| Blue John is now scarce, and only a few hundred kilograms are mined each year for ornamental and lapidary use. |
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| A hundred years later, Bonnie Prince Charlie set up camp at Derby on 4 December 1745, whilst on his way south to seize the British crown. |
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| During this period of his life, extending over fourteen years, Cayley produced between two and three hundred papers. |
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| One hundred years ago, to have lit this theatre as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds. |
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| The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals. |
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| The nuptials are usually followed by a lavish and joyous wedding reception, often including several hundred guests. |
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| In the early Middle Ages the views of Geoffrey of Monmouth produced a personally inspired history that wasn't challenged for five hundred years. |
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| A military crackdown on Rohingyas in neighboring Myanmar led to an exodus of several hundred thousand refugees into southeastern Bangladesh. |
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| Though estimations of the number of Cornish speakers vary, the speakers of Cornish today are thought to be around five hundred. |
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| Ergyng eventually became a mere cantref, the Welsh equivalent of a hundred. |
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| Benedict resigned due to advanced age in 2013, the first pope to do so in nearly six hundred years. |
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| Bede was writing over a hundred years after the events he was recording with little contemporary information on the actual conversion efforts. |
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| About a hundred such halls were built in Britain between 1886 and 1945, many in a Renaissance or Baroque style. |
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| The Philippines has more than a hundred native languages, most without official recognition from the national government. |
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| Over a hundred examples of this standardized type have been found, most of them around the village of Laconi. |
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| Wealthy merchants had no status within the hundred courts and formed guilds to gain influence. |
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| Castles continued to be built in England for several hundred years, reaching a peak of military sophistication in the late 13th century. |
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| Two hundred and fifteen medieval manuscripts of the Historia survive, dozens of them copied before the end of the twelfth century. |
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| Most rapper jigs used for the last hundred years are Irish tunes, probably imported by Irish immigrants to Tyneside in the nineteenth century. |
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| He had been made a royal counsellor, drawing a substantial annual salary of a hundred marks. |
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| Isurium flourished for the next hundred years, with the building of elaborate private homes with fine decorative mosaic floors. |
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| Right now there are more than several hundred members within the United States, and a few hundred more throughout the world. |
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| He later told Drummond that he had made less than two hundred pounds on all his plays together. |
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| As three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman. |
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| Two hundred years after Johnson's death, the posthumous diagnosis of Tourette syndrome became widely accepted. |
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| Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, 4000 essays, and several plays. |
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| Now the rail has come, and the fire-carriage says buz-buz-buz, and a hundred lakhs of maunds slide across that big bridge. |
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| I would rather board a hundred of the enemy's frigates, than steer my boat into a fleet of modest women, for a modest woman never fails to take me aback. |
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| They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that. |
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| The said bishop Ofbaldiston cut and sold all the alder wood upon the demesne at Rose, with large quantities of oak and ash, to the value of many hundred pounds. |
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| Next, some five hundred yards downstream, is Queen's Bridge, which also carries vehicle and pedestrian traffic, this time of South Street and Tay Street. |
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| Despite the generally symmetrical appearance of the two hemispheres, however, a number of biological asymmetries have been documented during the last hundred years. |
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| Ten men thus sufficed for the milking of three hundred cows in five bails, instead of the thirty men who would normally have been employed by conventional methods. |
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| I have formed many intimacies and friendships here, but I am afraid they are all of too tender a construction to bear carriage a hundred and fifty miles. |
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| On one account, advanced two hundred years ago by the historians Hume and Arnot, the older distinctively Scottish two verdict system was rooted in religious oppression. |
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| As of 2014, only five hundred and five Yangtze finless porpoises remained in the main section of the Yangtze, with an alarming population density in Ezhou and Zhenjiang. |
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| In contrast with the First Symphony and its hundred performances in just over a year, the Cello Concerto did not have a second performance in London for more than a year. |
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| With these acts, Bruce had successfully destroyed the power of the Comyns, which had controlled much of northern and southwestern Scotland for over a hundred and fifty years. |
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| By 1860 the European population had grown to two hundred thousand, and the land of the Algerians was being rapidly bought and farmed by the new arrivals. |
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| In 1583, Humphrey Gilbert sailed to Newfoundland, taking possession of the harbour of St John's together with all land within two hundred leagues to the north and south of it. |
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| Five to six hundred tons of powder was stored in the Tower of London. |
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| Bertram is certainly well off for a cadet of even a Baronet's family. By the time he is four or five and twenty he will have seven hundred a year, and nothing to do for it. |
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| It did not number more than few hundred man, and it did not show any commitment to fighting the Serbs, accepting a broader autonomy as a solution rather than independence. |
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| Its growth spelled the beginning of some states and the end of others, as the map of Europe changed dramatically in the hundred years following the Napoleonic Era. |
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| Every enchanting mist, one hundred thousand crystal bullets of rain, sparkling dew, glistening stream, fragrant moodscapes of the rainforest are all His handiwork. |
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| The fossils found in the area and the coastal geomorphologic features of this dynamic coast, have advanced the study of earth sciences for more than two hundred years. |
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| He will be on your side when you want to spend an entire Saturday making the house smell like a brewery or drop several hundred dollars to build a kegerator. |
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| Acutely ill children are having to wait up to nine hours for an intensive care bed or to be transported over a hundred miles to a hospital with a free bed. |
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| When Brin Ohmsford had come into Darklin Reach three hundred years earlier, Hearthstone had been the home of Cogline and the child he claimed as his granddaughter, Kimber Boh. |
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| This made lamps in use for several hundred hours quite fragile. |
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| The Act of Uniformity had laid a mulct of a hundred pounds on every person who, not having received episcopal ordination, should presume to administer the Eucharist. |
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| Seven hundred species of algae exist, most of which are phytoplankton. |
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| A blue-eyed, lantern-jawed old white man, who is two meters tall and one hundred years old, sits in the clearing on what was once the back seat of a taxicab. |
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| And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata! |
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| From there he recognised the needs of the seafarers on the four hundred sailing vessels in the Bristol Channel and created the Bristol Channel Mission. |
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| I'd come to the conclusion that Ben had one hundred per cent dickmatized me, and to break the trance I needed to start calling the shots again when it came to blokes. |
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| Estimates varied from a few hundred thousand to billions of years. |
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| Thomas acquired a garage a hundred yards from the house on a cliff ledge which he turned into his writing shed, and where he wrote several of his most acclaimed poems. |
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| According to a study by me, this generates a multibillion facepalm for the UK economy, making everyone who considers it at least eleventy hundred pounds unhappier. |
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| Wells was part of, and gave its name to, the hundred of Wells Forum. |
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| In the Middle Ages, Preston was a parish and township in the hundred of Amounderness and was granted a Guild Merchant charter in 1179, giving it the status of a market town. |
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| In 2007, not one drop of ethanol was produced in Ohio. Today, four ethanol facilities in Ohio are producing two hundred and ninety-five million gallons annually. |
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| The most common instruments used in Irish traditional dance music, whose history goes back several hundred years, are the fiddle, tin whistle, flute and Uilleann pipes. |
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| Of the total 2500 settlers that set off, just a few hundred survived. |
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| The several hundred settlers were centered around the capital of Fort Christina, at the location of what is today the city of Wilmington, Delaware. |
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| It appears that the hundred was the main organising unit for the fyrd. |
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| He was a large fleshy man, weighing at least two hundred pounds, and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering jelly-mountain of fat. |
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| In the town of Colwyn Bay in north Wales, an annual parade through the centre of town is now held with several hundred citizens and schoolchildren taking part. |
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| At present the greatest part of this traffick is diverted into other channels, and not more than four or five hundred thousand yards are brought to the ancient mart. |
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| A gradual metamorphosis took place in the course of a hundred years. |
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| Niven appeared in nearly a hundred films, and many shows for television. |
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| The only version that was ever published was a short first draft, but the final version, which he worked on until his death, is a few hundred pages long. |
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| Over a hundred holy wells exist in Cornwall, each associated with a particular saint, though not always the same one as the dedication of the church. |
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| Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes. |
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| On 29 June, several hundred independence supporters gathered in a demonstration outside the BBC Scotland headquarters in Glasgow in protest at the BBC's alleged bias. |
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| His legend recounts that he daily fed a hundred clergy and a hundred soldiers, a hundred workmen, a hundred poor men, and the same number of widows. |
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| Mila didn't say anything, and Tal likewise kept silent. He simply nodded noncomittally, the way she'd seen a hundred cops and another hundred lawyers do. |
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| Passive sonar is a set of sensitive hydrophones set into the hull or trailed in a towed array, normally trailing several hundred feet behind the sub. |
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| These results imply that DNA molecules can be conducting down to millikelvin temperature and that phase coherence is maintained over several hundred nanometers. |
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| In fifty cases out of a hundred, booksellers who make grangerizing a speciality find it pays far better to break up an illustrated book than to sell it intact. |
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| Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred. |
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| More than a hundred racist abuse and hate crimes were reported in the immediate aftermath of the referendum, with many citing the plan to leave the European Union. |
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| The shorthand course was popular with one hundred boys in the classes. |
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| In 1920, Wittgenstein was given his first job as a primary school teacher in Trattenbach, under his real name, in a remote village of a few hundred people. |
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| Two hundred Scottish soldiers were sent to Normandy in 1562 to aid the French Huguenots in their struggle against royal authority during the French Wars of Religion. |
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| There is also an entry of two hundred Malles in a store house at Berwick. |
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| Sheng had given me many Hami melons, and once again a cavalry of several hundred horsemen arrived for my departure, making for a spectacular send-off. |
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| The Spanish found gold, indigo, cochineal and six hundred black slaves on the island, worth a total of 500,000 ducats, some of the accumulated booty from the English raids. |
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| Gothic architecture continued to flourish in England for a hundred years after the precepts of Renaissance architecture were formalised in Florence in the early 15th century. |
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| In the former myth, he forged seven hundred duplicates of this ring. |
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| Three hundred women from the Philippines and Thailand, recruited as wives because of the Faroes' gender imbalance, make up the largest ethnic minority in the Faroes. |
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| These herdings and stabbings and stranglings occurred five hundred years ago, before America felt the withering touch of Europe. Does that exclude them from our concern? |
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| Five hundred pounds he gave so free, all to Jack Ketch as a small legacy. |
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| The flow of fresh water into the sea from approximately two hundred rivers and the introduction of salt from the South builds up a gradient of salinity in the Baltic Sea. |
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| Columba blessed the poor man's cows and his own descendants, and the poor man's five cows multiplied until he had a herd of one hundred and five cows. |
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| The works of several hundred ancient authors who wrote in Latin have survived in whole or in part, in substantial works or in fragments to be analyzed in philology. |
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| Brewpubs subsequently resurged, particularly with the rise of the Firkin pub chain, most of whose pubs brewed on the premises, running to over one hundred at peak. |
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| This is a diagnostic test of your engine. You're supposed to have an output of a hundred and sixty-eight horses at sixty-two hundred R.P.M.s. You're nowhere near that. |
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| The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds. |
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| Deposits containing human bone date from as early as 3000 BC, when the ditch and bank were first dug, and continued for at least another five hundred years. |
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| Ironic has been used vaguely at best for a good a hundred and fifty years. |
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| Despite the cushiony-pink Marilyn Monroe skin, Shar is harder than I am. My heart races when I look at her, just as it did a hundred thousand years ago. |
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| In addition, a zone of permafrost stretched southward from the edge of the glacial sheet, a few hundred kilometres in North America, and several hundred in Eurasia. |
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| A few hundred nest annually on the eastern coast of Florida. |
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| In a few geologically active areas such as the Southern California coast, Pleistocene marine deposits may be found at elevations of several hundred meters. |
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| Thomas Fuller, in Worthies of England, included a story where the Queen told her treasurer, William Cecil, to pay Spenser one hundred pounds for his poetry. |
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| On 7 September, a massive series of raids involving nearly four hundred bombers and more than six hundred fighters targeted docks in the East End of London, day and night. |
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| Pointe du Hoc, a prominent headland situated between Utah and Omaha, was assigned to two hundred men of 2nd Ranger Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James Rudder. |
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| The high number of prisoners eventually overloaded the Brazilian prison system, leading to a shortfall of about two hundred thousand accommodations. |
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| What the Glorious Revolution had meant was as important to Burke and his contemporaries as it had been for the last one hundred years in British politics. |
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| Operation Resolute Support, will involve 28 NATO nations, 14 partner nations, eleven thousand American troops, and eight hundred fifty German troops. |
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| Contracts have been broken on all sides, careers destroyed by the hundred and the thousand, individuals have been treated with the most hideous and disgusting cruelty. |
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| The shift from several spheroids to one worldwide spheroid caused all geographical coordinates to shift by many metres, sometimes as much as several hundred metres. |
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| Several hundred pounds was later raised through public subscription in gratitude for the boy's efforts, and he was sent on an engineering scholarship to Scotland. |
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| Like rock festivals, folk festivals have begun to multiply since the 1990s and there are over a hundred folk festivals or varying sizes held in England every year. |
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| One hundred and eighty Amerindian languages are spoken in remote areas and a significant number of other languages are spoken by immigrants and their descendants. |
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| The new kind of scientific activity emerged only in a few countries of Western Europe, and it was restricted to that small area for about two hundred years. |
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