Preposition: of

• millimeter: Right: seen under the microscope, the tiny pores ( each about 2 hundredths of a millimeter across ) become visible.

• second: These events take no more than one hundredth of a second to unfold.

• percent: According to the American Plastics Council, in 1995, less than less than 2 hundredths of a percent was recycled.

• unit: The dual-level LCD shows the pH value from 0 to 14 in hundredths of units.

• day: The Julian calendar ( rectified in 1752 ) made the year 11 minutes 14 seconds too long, roughly a hundredth of a day.

• millimeter: SECM uses a very small electrode of diameter about one hundredth of a millimeter located very closely to the surface of a mitochondrion.

Converse of object

• shave: Steve's team modeled the aerodynamics of Kristan's equipment to help'Dr Ice ' shave crucial hundredths of a second off his times.

Adjective modifier

• few: If Andretti had driven a few hundredths of a second faster and got pole he would have been scuppered.

• more: Another lap, a few more hundredths shaved off, and Moore's work was done.

Modifies a noun

• anniversary: On 28 June 1889, the five hundredth anniversary of the battle, 30,000 pilgrims came to pay homage.

• birthday: He died at Bideford two months short of his hundredth birthday.

• monkey: Let's further suppose that later that evening the hundredth monkey learned to wash potatoes.. .

• part: There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be.

• time: Instead of slamming down the phone, girl, for the hundredth time.

• year: Thomas Rooke died on the 27 th of July 1942 in his hundredth year.