hundred - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • advertize: The CEMS Placement team has close links with the business community and advertize hundreds of work placements every year.
  • kill: Protesters who escaped say government troops fired into the crowd, killing hundreds of people.
  • save: By reducing the number of diapers going to landfill, local authorities can save hundreds of thousands of pounds on disposal costs.
  • attract: Every February the adjacent River Nene is host to the Head of the River Race which again attracts hundreds of entries.
  • contain: The Bible contains hundreds of prophecies which have come to pass.
  • receive: But Time has received hundreds of complaints from readers and Web users.

Converse of subject

  • surround: At once, the patrol was surrounded by hundreds of other young people, all offering their cards for checking.
  • join: They were joined by hundreds of Leeds families, including current members of 442 and potential new recruits.

Adjective modifier

  • many: Cheers for your many hundreds of emails, sorry I couldn't use them all.
  • Many: Many hundreds of thousands of pounds have been poured into research attempting unsuccessfully to demonstrate that BSE occurs naturally in sheep.
  • several: The total number of members which it regrouped reached several hundreds.
  • back: Would you like to travel back hundreds of years to explore local history?

Modifies a noun

  • year: There are enough world phosphate and potash stocks to last over two hundreds years.

Noun used with modifier

  • year: HSBC Firework Safety Each year hundreds of people are injured by fireworks.

Preposition: of

  • thousand: There were hundreds of thousands of Scots sold into slavery during Colonial America.
  • million: What has happened to the hundreds of millions raised by the Asian Tsunami Appeal?
  • pound: Benevolent Fund raises hundreds of pounds to help members in times of personal crisis.
  • mile: In Europe there are hundreds of miles of rivers to explore.
  • kilometer: Typically, they are a few tens of kilometers across at their source, expanding to hundreds of kilometers across downstream.
  • dollar: Can they afford hundreds of dollars or more in bills?

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