Below you will find example sentences with "hundred years". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Hundred Years in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: hundred
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 18
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.5 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 7 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "hundred years" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 27.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a few hundred years every 100, a few hundred years in the, ago, england and war stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with years ago, two years, five years, few hundred, two hundred and four hundred, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with hundred years
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
A hundred years ago, Chicago elected a reform mayor. (9 words)
A hundred years ago, California was the country’s top oil producer. (12 words)
Carbon dating of those sediments confirmed that the scar is at least several hundred years old. (16 words)
Gallus remained in this area and died there 646. About seventy years later at the place of Gallus' cell the Monastery of Saint Gall was founded, which in itself was the origin of the city of St. Gallen again about another three hundred years later. (45 words)
After about 20 million years on the early asymptotic giant branch, the Sun becomes increasingly unstable, with rapid mass loss and thermal pulses that increase the size and luminosity for a few hundred years every 100,000 years or so. (40 words)
Flaring is a process of burning off methane that is so toxic it has been outlawed in California for nearly a hundred years, but Californians send more than $5 billion a year to Iraq to continue the cancer-causing activity. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Being situated at the boundaries of influence of the monarchies of France and England, it oscillated between the two dynasties for more than three hundred years of struggle until the end of the Hundred Years' War in 1453.
The crew had gathered for a solemn ceremony, to pay tribute to the more than fifteen hundred people who had died in the most famous maritime disaster more than a hundred years ago.
After about 20 million years on the early asymptotic giant branch, the Sun becomes increasingly unstable, with rapid mass loss and thermal pulses that increase the size and luminosity for a few hundred years every 100,000 years or so.
With countless breakthroughs in battery technology on the horizon — from — we might get an electric plane that can travel around the world in five years time, or in one hundred years.
Gallus remained in this area and died there 646. About seventy years later at the place of Gallus' cell the Monastery of Saint Gall was founded, which in itself was the origin of the city of St. Gallen again about another three hundred years later.
He ignored truces with England and was determined to stand by his ally Philip VI during the early years of the Hundred Years' War.
Introduction In its natural state, chaparral is characterized by infrequent fires, with intervals ranging between 10–15 years to over a hundred years.
Proposed methods Slow, uncrewed probes main Slow interstellar missions based on current and near-future propulsion technologies are associated with trip times starting from about one hundred years to thousands of years.
The Bible also mentions that the Flood came when Noah was 600 years old—a hundred years after he became a father.
This effect is not uniform – the average effect is about 440 years, but there are local deviations of several hundred years for areas that are geographically close to each other.
A hundred years ago, California was the country’s top oil producer.
A hundred years ago, Chicago elected a reform mayor.
A hundred years ago, U.S. airmail pilots depended on a coast-to-coast bread-crumb trail of arrows—though most have been destroyed, buried, lost, or forgotten.
A little over a hundred years ago, Butte was a boomtown, ruled by copper and raging with prosperity.
An adaptation of a popular cyberpunk novel by Richard K. Morgan, is set a few hundred years in the future, by which point humanity has developed the technology to download a person’s consciousness into computers.
But most of us don’t think beyond a hundred years but we should when it comes to sustainable investments and building companies that last.
But Nigerians are not going to wait for five hundred years to expose the Presidential forgery called an impostor Muhammadu Buhari from Niger Republic backyard.
Carbon dating of those sediments confirmed that the scar is at least several hundred years old.
Depending on what your definition of an “organ” is, organ transplant horror movies have been around for well over one hundred years.
Flaring is a process of burning off methane that is so toxic it has been outlawed in California for nearly a hundred years, but Californians send more than $5 billion a year to Iraq to continue the cancer-causing activity.