Shire subdivision; number

Usage examples of hundred.

Weavers had been responsible for the practice of killing Aberrant children for more than a hundred years.

For every hundred useless aberrations there may be one that is useful, that provides its bearer an advantage over its kin.

Between the two lies the main ship channel, varying in width from seven hundred and fifty yards, three miles outside, to two thousand, or about a sea mile, abreast Fort Morgan.

An attempt to abscond could mean three months and a hundred lashes in addition.

The lower lip curved outward, making a platform that abutted at the height of perhaps a hundred feet upon a sinister-looking gorge below.

It was all a great big carnival freak show The federal government was the Man with One Hundred Arms, and Glenn Abies was the barker.

French philosophy, after a hundred years of academicism, is still at this point.

Were I to accede to this I might as well pack up at once and go and live on a farm a hundred leagues from Paris.

We sat there, furious and not looking at each other, as the acceleration was slowly throttled back and the capsule moved away from the disk to resume its free-flight position two hundred and fifty meters behind it.

Closest approach distances for every body within five hundred AU, assuming McAndrew held the same course and acceleration all the way out.

His field of vision contracted until it embraced only the clock and the accelerometer, fifteen g, and four hundred and eighty seconds to go.

I found my conduct excusable, as the chances were a hundred to one against her accepting the proposal I had been foolish enough to make.

The latter of those mighty streams, which rises at the distance of only thirty miles from the former, flows above thirteen hundred miles, for the most part to the south-east, collects the tribute of sixty navigable rivers, and is, at length, through six mouths, received into the Euxine, which appears scarcely equal to such an accession of waters.

Above two hundred and fifty years after the death of Trajan, the senate, in pouring out the customary acclamations on the accession of a new emperor, wished that he might surpass the felicity of Augustus, and the virtue of Trajan.

Joke, the one that must have been handed down from Aching to Aching for hundreds of years.