Word Finder - hundred

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A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).

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An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.

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(by extension) Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire

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A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.

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He made a hundred in the historic match.

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A numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine.

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a hundred, one hundred

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(24-hour clock) The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.

I've told myself that a hundred times.

We're two hundred miles away.

The current balance owed was over four hundred dollars.

I thanked him for his generosity and donated a hundred dollar bill to his mission.

We need an exact location too, within fifty or a hundred feet.

Martha commutes weekends a hundred miles from their home.

Peabody was two hundred and thirty miles and we arrived at our destination a little after eleven on Friday night, after nearly six hours of steady traffic.

About two hundred yards away a lone wolf stood poised for flight, watching them cautiously.

The hundred mile drive up the coast to Santa Barbara took more than two hours during which we chatted the entire way.

At one time, a hotel, accommodating a hundred guests and stable for seventy-five horses, adorned its slopes.

It was the sound I hated more on a telephone that Henri Mancini's version of Theme from Moon Glow or any other top one hundred hits of elevator music was, 'would you please hold'?

Two hundred years ago there lived in Boston a little boy whose name was Benjamin Franklin.

Science's progress over the past few hundred years has been determined mainly by the relatively slow speed at which we were able to collect data.

So these selections from Miss Keller's correspondence are made with two purposes--to show her development and to preserve the most entertaining and significant passages from several hundred letters.

Unless someone knew the area, they could pass within a hundred feet of it and not know it was there.

For two hundred years the mountain has attracted visitors from miles away.

Some I have seen, sixty or a hundred feet long and thirty feet broad....

The town was being bombarded by a hundred and thirty guns which Napoleon had ordered up after four o'clock.

An armadillo stared at them from a rocky ledge as they passed, and a doe and her fawn darted across the trail not more than a hundred yards ahead, disappearing into the brush.

He carried her about a hundred yards and then set her on her feet, slapping her backside with a sting that brought tears to her eyes.

I don't know what kind of wages you draw here, but I'd be willing to pay you a hundred a week plus room and board.

Martha would drive Howie to Boston's Logan Airport for his flight back to California while Quinn would remain to pack up his equipment before leaving later for a hundred mile drive to their home in nearby Peabody, Mass.

It's changed a lot; almost completely, but I'm a hundred percent certain I visited Brockville.

It came from Boston, a few hundred miles away; sort of like the tip you just made.

Several hundred but that needs clarification.

That must be three hundred and fifty miles from here!

We had three in the last class, more than we've seen in a few hundred years.

Now, thanks to an overzealous social worker, Martha was scheduled to become reacquainted with mommy dearest—in Denver, over three hundred miles away from Bird Song's nest.

It was found impossible to make the Morse ink writer so sensitive that it could record signals sent over land lines of several hundred miles in length, if the speed of transmission was very much faster than that which could be effected by hand, and this led to the adoption of automatic methods of transmission.

During the Hundred Days he was vice-president of the chamber of deputies, and when the allied armies entered Paris he drew up the declaration in which the chamber asserted the necessity of maintaining the principles of government that had been established at the Revolution.

I think it is bigger by "twenty hundred thousand times" (my favorite number used by Shakespeare.)

He missed the small girl and her shy smile a hundred times a day.

His bike awaited, but when he divided the hundred promised miles a week by seven, the number was daunting.

A DNA test would start around five hundred bucks.

When I got home, I played it over and over, a hundred times, I'll bet, and just cried and cried.

They'd traveled several hundred yards when Dean saw it, nearly covered by brush and invisible from all but a few feet away.

Darkness moved in quickly now, and he knew he'd soon need help and more light than a simple flashlight to locate a wreck, if in fact a vehicle had plunged to the valley floor, a hundred or more feet below.

Not so, as over a hundred people packed the room.

If he had an extra couple of hundred, I wish he'd put it toward his bill.

Back on the pavement, Dean pedaled past Tom, a well-known wild turkey who'd in past months adopted a location on the highway from which he never seemed to stray more than a few hundred yards.

For ten bucks more, she was to cover Ridgway's four hundred citizens in the county's only other town, if you didn't count minuscule Colona, which most people didn't.

She was the victor of Vegas to the tune of three hundred dollars, and called to invite Fred out to spend the spoils.

You outsize my wife by a foot and a hundred pounds.

A hundred years ago, there had been a homestead known as Thistle Farm there, but no remnants remained.

Just to make sure nothing disturbed daddy's open arms, she offered me a hundred bucks for the picture!

I wasn't a hundred percent truthful when we first met in the park—at the doggy parade.

She gave me a couple of hundred bucks and left me at this bus station in this little town in Illinois—I don't remember the name.

This isn't three hundred souls.

We rescued three hundred souls.

She could pay it this month or put the three hundred dollars towards a one-way ticket to wherever she wanted to be when she died.