What is "a hundred"

Usage examples of "a hundred".

He had more than the average background of ordinary chemistry, as he had of a hundred other unlikely subjects, but things went on in this production line that were utterly out of his depth.

He went along the edge, of a field of oat hay for a hundred yards, and squeezed through another gap in the hedge into the concealment of a clump of rhododendron bushes.

I believe right now a man like you could be worth a hundred thousand dollars a year to me.

They almost could have been a hundred miles from the nearest human habitation.

Anyway, there are over a hundred little shelters spotted around the grounds, eccentric wooden huts which the guests sometimes call 'follies' and the Mohonk brochures call 'gazebos', you find these overlooking the choicest views.