Better yet, the thing expressed time in hundredths of seconds, a boon to athletes and scientists.    From Wordnik.com.  [- Boing Boing] Reference

The free men of colour amounted to nineteen hundredths, that is, double the number of those in Jamaica and Martinique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

"Eighteen one-hundredths of an inch," he announced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol] Reference

It was worth three cents and fifty-seven hundredths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference

The depth of the groove is six one-hundredths of an inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886] Reference

Case of sterile graduated pipettes, 1 c.c. (in hundredths).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

Thus the metric carat is divided into tenths and one hundredths.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

One of these marks the units and the other the hundredths (Fig. 5).    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884] Reference

"A few hundredths of a second can be tremendously important," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Brain And Google Instant] Reference

It is provided with a vernier scale graduated to hundredths of an inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

Can it have better recommendations to ninety-nine hundredths of mankind?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference

But the effects are tiny, on the order of a few hundredths of 1 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Decoding 'The Secret'] Reference

A vernier is attached to the sliding branch, graduated to hundredths of an inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

Why pay three and sixty - five hundredths per cent., when it is easier to print three?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

Thus, a stone of 2.57 carats is said to weigh "two and fifty-seven hundredths carats.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

A slide is made to play upon it with a vernier scale, graduated to hundredths of an inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

They think they can get it to move even slower, around two hundredths of a mile per hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Faster Than Light?] Reference

The amount in a food material is very small, usually only a few hundredths of a per cent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value] Reference

The scale is divided into tenths of an inch, and the sub-divisions are hundredths of an inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference

Woman is still believed intellectually inferior to man, by ninety-nine one hundredths of mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference

This covered two hundred and sixty-six and fifty-two hundredths miles, commencing at the hundredth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History] Reference

This piece of metal contains a circular aperture a few hundredths of an inch in diameter (Fig. 3).    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887] Reference

Another style, instead of an Essex board-measure, and the hundredths graduation has a rafter-table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handwork in Wood] Reference

In the center of the south wall there is an opening 1.5 feet high and eighty-five one-hundredths of a foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference

The contraction that has taken place gives, in hundredths of the total volume, the volume of the gas absorbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference

The tallow is supposed to be eight one-hundredths of the live weight; so that the multiplier is the decimal .08.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference

But Phelps surged forward and caught Crocker at the wall, winning by four hundredths of a second -- a fingernail.    From Wordnik.com.  [GOLD RUSH] Reference

The hide is supposed to be five one-hundredths of the live weight; so to obtain its weight, a multiplier, .05, is used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference

The average increase of the slaves has been a little over 2½ per cent. per annum, or exactly two and sixty-hundredths.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference

Very few of us can estimate correctly the passage of five minutes: syllables are uttered in a few hundredths of a second.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

No matter what transpires at Barcelona, Lewis is secure in the time of years-whatever the hundredths of seconds may read.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Long Leap Of Faith] Reference

Thus by bolting, wheat is impoverished in its most valuable principles, merely to remove a few hundredths of woody matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

It will all be over in eight minutes -- give or take a few hundredths -- spread over the first four nights of the Olympics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firing The Thorpedo] Reference

But these are exceptions: ninety-nine one-hundredths of the mountaineers are Mohammedans of the fiercest, most intolerant type.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference

Station seven hundred and nine and ninety-five hundredths, making a total distance from Sheridan of eight and nine-tenths miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History] Reference

In 1893 it was estimated that three one-hundredths of one per cent. of the people owned twenty per cent. of the nation's wealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference

The second contract made was with a Mr. Boomer for one hundred and fifty-three and thirty-five hundredths miles from the hundredth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History] Reference

There is a vernier upon the slide, graduated to hundredths of an inch; a thumb-screw serves to secure the slide at any point on the rod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference