(n.) The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C.
(n.) A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen.
(a.) Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
(3) One hundred and twelve dogs, including twenty C3-deficient dogs, were studied over a period of 6 years.
(4) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(5) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
(6) Four hundred mice were innouclated in the hind footpads with 10(8) organisms.
(7) Four hundred and twenty-five lesions were dilated in 370 patients.
(8) The leak also included the script for an in-house Sony Pictures recruitment video and performance reviews for hundreds employees.
(9) One hundred and sixteen patients with advanced and metastatic adenocarcinoma of the pancreas were randomized to treatment with combined Streptozotocin and 5-fluorouracil or combined Streptozotocin and cyclophosphamide.
(10) Four hundred patients with resectable colon and rectal cancers were operated on by 37 surgeons at 31 institutions.
(11) One hundred and ninety-six herd mates without RP served as controls.
(12) Two hundred and forty root canals of extracted single-rooted teeth were prepared to the same dimension, and Dentatus posts of equal size were cemented without screwing them into the dentine.
(13) Two hundred eleven adult emergency hand patients were prospectively tested over a 1-year period for drug and alcohol use.
(14) One hundred consecutive patients with uncomplicated gonorrhea were treated with 800 mg of cefixime.
(15) One-hundred characters were derived from morphological features, physiological and biochemical activities and SEM micrographs.
(16) Four hundred patients who were admitted over the last three years with myocardial infarction were questioned about the presence and pattern of angina before its onset.
(17) Two hundred fifty-one cervical and 209 male urethral specimens from three Richmond health clinics were read by direct immunofluorescence staining and compared with cell culture technics using iodine staining.
(18) One hundred and forty six calving interval records were built up from 64 N'Dama cows maintained for 3.5 years under a high natural tsetse challenge in Zaire.
(19) Serial sections from over a hundred such structures show that these are tubular structures and that the 'test-tube and ring-shaped' forms described in the literature are no more than profiles one expects to see when a tubular structure is sectioned.
(20) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
Hundredfold
Definition:
(n.) A hundred times as much or as many.
Example Sentences:
(1) At concentrations several hundredfold higher than the equivalents present in the minimum concentration of rat skin soluble collagen required for platelet aggregation, neither Hyl-Gal (at 29 muM) nor Hyl-Gal-Glc (at 18 muM) caused platelet aggregation or inhibited platelet aggregation by native collagen.
(2) These observations suggest a mucosal diffusion barrier, so the concentrations of the analogues were raised one hundredfold.
(3) The gingival fluid of the control subjects had a cAMP concentration of 2.4 X 10(-6) M, which was a hundredfold greater than that seen in serum, thus suggesting that the cAMP in the fluid resulted from active synthesis by the gingival cells and was not merely a transudate from the blood.
(4) There was no difference in mucosal iron uptake or absorption between rats undergoing a jugular infusion of ferritin and those infused with saline despite a hundredfold difference in circulating ferritin concentration.
(5) In the newly constructed strain, subunit B2 constituted approximately 25% of the soluble protein after heat induction, an overproduction of several hundredfold relative to the wild-type strain.
(6) The effect is illustrated by the marked (hundredfold) increase in biological activity of Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin A after fatty acylation.
(7) Purine nucleoside phosphorylase has been purified at least a hundredfold from 35S-labeled cultured human fibroblasts.
(8) The concentration of these cells in the spleen remains several hundredfold higher.
(9) The resulting A. brasilense recA mutant showed increased sensitivity to the DNA methylating agent methyl methanesulfonate and to ultraviolet light and had at least one hundredfold reduced recombinational activity compared to the parent strain.
(10) A significantly higher activity in the presence of Mn2+ as opposed to Mg2+ is due to a hundredfold higher affinity for the primer terminus.
(11) The permeability of cartilage to large molecules is extremely sensitive to variations in the glycosaminoglycan content: for a threefold increase in the latter there is a hundredfold decrease in the partition coefficient.
(12) Rat liver nuclei pure by enzymatic and electron microscope criteria contain protein kinase C (PKC) that can be activated several hundredfold within 3 min of addition of prolactin or phorbol 12-tetradecanoate 13-acetate.
(13) Ricin A-chain coupled to OX7 antibody was one hundredfold to one thousandfold less effective than OX7-saporin as an antitumor agent in vivo, although the two immunotoxins were equally cytotoxic to AKR-A cells in vitro.
(14) Even in the context of years of obscene crimes against its citizens, the news that South Sudan’s government is threatening to hike the cost of work permits for foreigners a hundredfold, from $100 to as much as $10,000, is horrifying.
(15) The HPAs delay decomposition of H2O2 up to several hundredfold.
(16) But how many more would there have been if we doubled the number of cameras, or increased them tenfold, a hundredfold?
(17) The uptake system was inducible by melibiose and a number of analogs at 30 degrees C. At higher temperatures the differential rate of synthesis decreases until becoming negligible at 42 degrees C. The uptake tends toward a steady state which corresponds to an accumulation several hundredfold over the sugar concentration in the medium.
(18) This cut will be felt a hundredfold by GPs, hospitals and treatment services down the line.
(19) Eluates from kidneys of patients with Goodpasture's syndrome fixed more frequently to homologous nonglomerular renal and extrarenal antigenic sites and to heterologous GBM than did non-Goodpasture eluates over a hundredfold range of antibody concentrations; both could be blocked by prior absorption with soluble GBM antigens.
(20) Similarly, the MICs of norfloxacin and ciprofloxacin (the most potent of the antibiotics tested in these assays) were several hundredfold lower than the MIC of nalidixic acid (the least potent of these antibiotics), but the inhibition of purified gyrase by these two quinolones was only 8- to 16-fold lower than that of nalidixic acid.