Collocations for "hundred"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "hundred" in context.
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hundred
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.cardinal
- they [number, total] [two] hundred
- [17] (out) of every hundred
- [17] in [every, a] hundred
- 90 nine times out of a hundred it would have [worked, failed, finished]
- hundreds [came, watched, tried]
- hundreds were [affected, evacuated, injured]
- were hundreds of [them]
- hundreds of feet [above, below]
- cost hundreds of [dollars]
- a hundred [days, dollars, years]
- a hundred [miles, pounds, kilos, times]
- [happened, increased] over [two, a] hundred years
- took over [three] hundred years to [develop, stop, emerge]
- it cost (over) [five, a] hundred dollars
- there are several hundred of [them]
- are a hundred times more (now)
- there are at least a hundred of [them]
- must be more than a hundred of [them]
- a hundred miles away
- a hundred-meter [race, sprint]
- has to weigh a hundred [pounds]
- has to be a hundred [feet] high
- has to be a hundred years old
- I've told you a hundred times (not to)
- is a hundred times more likely that
- a hundred times [better, faster, larger, riskier]
- a hundred thousand
'hundred' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
answer
- athlete
- cabin
- couple
- dash
- drop
- eight
- excuse
- fifteen
- fifty
- five
- forty
- four
- fourteen
- internal
- life
- loft
- maroon
- mileage
- nine
- ninety
- nose
- odd
- one
- parking
- percent
- piece
- plummet
- pound
- roughly
- seven
- shade
- share
- shattered
- six
- staff
- ten
- twenty
- two
- unemployed
- weight