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  • The remedy for this needn't be a hundred-and-one policy announcements.

    The dangers with a Tory policy blitz 2009

  • The remedy for this needn't be a hundred-and-one policy announcements.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • She gives a good account of the things to learn in order to survive, such as shopping, coping with propane gas, finding a housekeeper and a gardener, learning the currency and so on through a hundred-and-one small adjustments.

    Mexico Magic by Dru Pearson 2005

  • She gives a good account of the things to learn in order to survive, such as shopping, coping with propane gas, finding a housekeeper and a gardener, learning the currency and so on through a hundred-and-one small adjustments.

    Mexico Magic by Dru Pearson 2005

  • Corporate special interests are using 21st century technology in a hundred-and-one ways to sever the bonds that extend from people to government.

    Candidate for Congress from Nevada proposes a revolutionary voting system 2006

  • Soon the hormones would begin to flow and Corry would lose interest in cooking and cleaning and the other hundred-and-one chores that keep a household up and running.

    Little Girl Blue Cray, David 2002

  • Hell, the hundred-and-one year old Queen Mum, whose time was well up, mind you, probably got more coverage for croaking in her sleep than this whole conflict has.

    bard Diary Entry bard 2002

  • With respect, people can come up with a hundred-and-one excuses.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • These and a hundred-and-one other such questions flash through his brain as he lies on the ground with his little party, all vigorously puffing pipes or cigarettes.

    Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery C. A. Rose

  • I assume the nature of boys of the present day to be similar to that of boys twenty years ago; and if so, I suspect that all these services have added about as much to the growth and strength of their religious principles, as the hundred-and-one paternosters and ave-marias muttered by a monk of Camaldoli for the last half century.

    Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.

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