number
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a round hundred/dozen etc (= a complete hundred etc )
good for some time/a hundred miles etc
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This old truck is good for another 100,000 miles.
in their hundreds/thousands etc (= in very large numbers )
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People flocked in their thousands to greet their new princess.
many hundreds/thousands/millions
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military equipment worth many millions of dollars
several hundred/thousand etc
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The bill came to several hundred pounds.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cool million/hundred thousand etc
a/one hundred percent
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Absolutely I agree one hundred percent .
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All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
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It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
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No wonder the others felt he was not one hundred percent reliable anymore.
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She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
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The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
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There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
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Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
one in every three/two in every hundred etc
run into hundreds/thousands etc
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All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.
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And, of course, the cost - that ran into thousands.
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Last night, it was feared that the cost of the disaster could run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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Others take a proportion of the cost of the house and, consequently, the fee can run into thousands.
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Potentially the number of claims could run into thousands: the inventory covers only part of the national collections.
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The number of deaths could run into hundreds.
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There are certainly hundreds of people who could be involved and the number could even run into thousands.
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These could run into thousands of pounds is a helicopter is involved.
to the nearest £10/hundred etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a hundred years
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two hundred miles
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few hundred feet down is a tarred road.
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The best thing they could do was comb the hundreds of pubs in the area.
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The Cardwell, all by itself, according to Bill Stultz, weighed a hundred pounds.
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The decision closes the doors on to hundreds of potential appeals by convicted drink-drivers.
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The houses were in fact built in the eighteen hundreds to a design by Sydney Smirke for Bethlem Hospital.
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The impulse to stop arises after you have gone only a few hundred yards.
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The last hundred feet of elevation form a near-vertical cliff, effectively turning the mesa into an imposing dark fortress.
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The Secretary of State has presided over the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the defence industry in recent years.