Sentence examples for hundred long from inspiring English sources
Through some ancient surveying slipup, a strip of land nine inches wide and a hundred long lay betw.
The great Bīsitūn rock inscription of Darius runs to several hundred long lines in Old Persian alone, besides the Elamite and Akkadian versions.
Outside the venue, a line for Miku merch sprawled a hundred long.
It would put more than 1,000 people to work in construction and create several hundred long-term jobs in health care.
A software engineer for Lucent Technologies in Whippany, Mr. Sundar was one of several hundred long-term employees laid off last fall.
Both are based on some pretty healthy fabrications (the TV spot says Mr. Romney will create thousands of jobs by approving the Keystone XL pipeline, which will create only a few hundred long-term jobs).
There are several hundred long-distance footpaths in Britain, ranging from 17-mile hikes such as the Altrincham Circular in Cheshire, through the medium-size (at 65 miles) Black Fen Waterway trail in East Anglia, and the West Highland Way in Scotland at 95 miles, up to classics such as the Pennine Way at 247 miles.
"Time after time, they would say to me, 'Why would we keep them?' " McCain saw the difficulty of coaxing Vietnamese officials, for the sake of a few hundred long-missing Americans, to coöperate in the kind of investigative work that Hanoi would never be able to do for the hundreds of thousands of its own missing soldiers.
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying schoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years.
