They each received a hundred-year prison sentence. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2007] Reference
MYERS: So, I mean, we talk about hundred-year floods. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2008] Reference
And not hundred-year floods, and that's what we have now. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2008] Reference
Yes, he's a fool to be taken in by that hundred-year claim. From Wordnik.com. [The Lay of the Land] Reference
This time it was a five hundred-year event so it didn't cover it. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with James W. (Jim) Connor, December 19, 1999. Interview K-0818. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
He said it's like a new house built with hundred-year old timber. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
At early rallies, Clark would launch into his "hundred-year vision.". From Wordnik.com. [HUNTING AN 'UN-DEAN': THE GENERAL'S NEW STRIPES] Reference
We know hundred-year old Palestinian land deeds are consistently ignored. From Wordnik.com. [Freddy Deknatel: No Arabic Harry Potters in Israel] Reference
I'm just looking at this you might say this might be a five hundred-year flood. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with James W. (Jim) Connor, December 19, 1999. Interview K-0818. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
His hundred-year occupation now looks more imperial, and less sensible, than ever. From Wordnik.com. [Marty Kaplan: The Cut-and-Runners Have Won, and They're Bush/Cheney] Reference
If we had the hundred-year language now, it would at least make a great pseudocode. From Wordnik.com. [The Hundred-Year Language] Reference
She had accumulated more than enough repressed anger to fuel her through a hundred-year war. From Wordnik.com. [Hillaryland at War] Reference
To celebrate the Nobel prize's hundred-year anniversary, two stamps will be issued this year. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize Anniversary on stamp] Reference
Even the hundred-year marriages of kings and queens required only a once-a-year nuptial visit. From Wordnik.com. [All Together Dead]
I mean, there are people who say, “Let's draw a hundred-year flood plain and get everybody out.”. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Billy Ray Hall, January 20, 2000. Interview K-0509. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Because this was a hundred-year flood zone, FEMA could only recommend and not require that flood insurance. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2008] Reference
The McCain Doctrine holds: those hundred-year issues do not create casualties so they do not create headlines. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Tyndall: Network News Conforms to McCain's Iraq Doctrine] Reference
Two tribes of weevils indicate a finicky appetite for water hyacinths if we have time for a hundred-year plan. From Wordnik.com. [Enough water hyacinths, more than enough] Reference
And it looks entirely possible, if you check the National League standings, hundred-year curses notwithstanding. From Wordnik.com. [A Banner Year for Sports] Reference
What we have here is the double whammy of this financial market crisis, which is sort of like a hundred-year flood. From Wordnik.com. [Pipe Dream?] Reference
As background, one of my favorite stories concerns an old man in an old house during a horrible, hundred-year storm. From Wordnik.com. [Esther Dyson: Flight School: The Lord Will Provide] Reference
When you see these ideas laid out like that, it's hard not to think, why not try writing the hundred-year language now?. From Wordnik.com. [The Hundred-Year Language] Reference
But what happens this year and the next couple years very well may determine the course of the next hundred-year period. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 12, 2005] Reference
The hundred-year cycle of war and peace prompted Arnold Toynbee to compare ýEurope's war-cycle with the business cycle!. From Wordnik.com. [The First European] Reference
First frontier war of a hundred-year series of wars between colonists of Cape and Xhosa on eastern frontier at Fish River. From Wordnik.com. [1755] Reference
Another lesson: just because you can't remember the last hundred-year storm doesn't mean another one isn't headed your way. From Wordnik.com. [Hamel: Failures of Morality and Leadership] Reference
Had it been a hundred-year flood though it still would have got those houses, because they probably weren't drawn correctly. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Billy Ray Hall, January 20, 2000. Interview K-0509. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
And following that thirty-year period of very high activity, major hurricanes declined significantly - to hundred-year lows. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Rosen: Hurricanes -- Whither Thou Blowest] Reference
Benny Morris noted recently that, just as the West is tired of the hundred-year war in the Middle East, so too are Israelis. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven] Reference
In fact, the dogwood is a poignant reminder of the hundred-year gap between the first and second incarnations of this garden. From Wordnik.com. [A Brand-New Olmsted] Reference
Powell, with much fanfare, recently announced plans -- as yet unfunded -- for a flood defense adequate to a hundred-year storm. From Wordnik.com. [Jed Horne: Is New Orleans Waiting for Godot?] Reference
But before setting out on a hundred-year war to eradicate terrorists from the face of the earth, let us consider the following. From Wordnik.com. [What Have We Learned, If Anything?] Reference
CHERTOFF: Well, I think what the Army Corps laid out was a plan that would culminate in 2011 with a finished hundred-year flood plan. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008] Reference
But again, I would caution, Pennsylvania has a hundred-year history or more of mining, and those maps are not a hundred percent accurate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2002] Reference
Up until a very few years ago, when still past the hundred-year mark, Mrs. Wagoner kept a large garden and was able to work in the fields. From Wordnik.com. [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference
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