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- The school has provided more than 100 scholarships for students this year.
- more than 100
- 100 years
- 100 mL
And there are dozens, hundreds, maybe thousands of them.
- And there are dozens, hundreds, maybe thousands of them.
- And a realtor has gone through this process hundreds, maybe even thousands of times before.
- He says if you haven't found one property and a hundred, a hundred deals, you start again.
- My first six months, I made a hundred friends just by being honest about where I wanted to go.
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Numbers of service users: 80-100 women and girls have been active in awareness-raising work so far.
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- Hey, you got change for a $100?
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- About 100 dollars in the bank is all.
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You can afford $100 to find out.
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I wouldn't go within 100 miles of there.
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I've seen the movie like 100 times.
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Since launching in 2002, the group raised an estimated $100 million from donors throughout the country.
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At 13,898 feet, it ranks among the 100 highest peaks in Colorado.
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In 2000, UNESCO included the site among the world's 100 most endangered heritage sites.
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Family Fun Magazine pays readers $100 for submitting winning travel ideas to its column "Let's Talk Travel."
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Synonyms
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A number equal to ten groups of ten
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A number equal to ten times ten
Compounds
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The act of putting all your energy and attention into doing something
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A radioactive metal made by shooting neutrons at plutonium in a lab
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Etymology
100 Comes from the old Latin word centum, which means 'a hundred', and you can see the same root in century ('100 years') and cent ('one hundredth of a dollar'). So 100 is the number equal to ten times ten, or one more than ninety-nine.