Sentence examples for certain hundreds from inspiring English sources

RIO + 20 During the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, called Rio+20, one thing was certain: hundreds of young people around the world engaged with the key issues of the conference on the level that matters most in their daily lives – in their local communities.

So did a certain 19th-century wordsmith.

Does this sound like a certain 17th-century play?

Cummings revived the practice of certain 17th-century poets (notably George Herbert) of "shaping" the poem by typographic arrangements.

In contrast to that magisterial effort, the entries are brief, anecdotal and personal, not unlike certain 17th-century Dutch pictures.

Mr. Adams likened Mr. Marshall's music to "certain 19th- and 20th-century American painters who used landscape as an expression of an elegiac sensibility.

Certain 17th-century masters of the Baroque perhaps show the fullest reference to him, but in ways that have been transformed to exclude any literal similarity.

But this is an uncannily precise description of certain 20th-century works (the Pygmy-inspired piano ?des of Ligeti, for instance).

But this is an uncannily precise description of certain 20th-century works (the Pygmy-inspired piano études of Ligeti, for instance).

"Of all philosophy, logic most appealed to me," said Abelard, who by "logic" understood primarily a discipline not unlike certain 20th-century approaches, the "critical analysis of thought on the basis of linguistic expression".

If that sad story doesn't make you want to immediately hop in and try it for yourself, well, you're not a certain 19th century English poet/aristocrat with documented impulse-control issues.