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  • About 130 hawkers sell vegetables and fruits, fresh meat and live fish, dried mushrooms, freshly made noodles and so-called hundred-year-old eggs.

    A Walk through Hong Kong's Central Claudia Blume 2011

  • This would appear to apply to human beings as well, when you consider the number of hundred-year-old Japanese folks hanging around.

    The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011

  • Even a several hundred-year-old history feels real and high impact and it doesn't have that slightly safe and groomed feeling that a lot of historical sites in England have.

    Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy 2011

  • These designing women are using original, up to almost one hundred-year-old Swiss army blankets to create handmade and cozy pillows in different sizes, sturdy footstools, agenda covers, firewood holders, duffle bags, napkin rings, totes, and more to stunning effect.

    Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Designing Women Beth Arnold 2011

  • Giselle was the hundred-year-old siren who had started Midnight Liaisons.

    My Fair Succubi Jill Myles 2011

  • Giselle was the hundred-year-old siren who had started Midnight Liaisons.

    My Fair Succubi Jill Myles 2011

  • Even in the United States, hundred-year-old industrial companies are on their deathbeds, not because of a cyclical downturn after an “SUV mania” but as a result of relentless and noncyclical phenomena (e.g., globalization, deunionization, a broken health-care system).

    Letters to the Editor 2009

  • There's a hundred-year-old man here tonight, and he goes to work every day.

    Music Executive Takes Center Stage Marshall Heyman 2011

  • In Oxford in spring he luxuriated in a "sea of . . . hundred-year-old roses."

    Things Fall Apart Modris Eksteins 2011

  • "People think I'm about being new, but I started by being moved by these hundred-year-old quilts that feel so fresh to me despite being made from traditional patterns," said Ms. Schmidt, a slender, 50-year-old woman wearing jeans and bright orange sneakers.

    The Queen of the 'Neo-Hillbilly' Quilt Meg Cox 2011

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