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A HUNDRED TIMES
I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
By a factor of one hundred
Example:
they money increased a hundredfold
Synonyms:
a hundred times; hundredfold
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Context examples:
A team of astronomers discovered a new kind of galaxy which, although extremely old — formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang — creates stars more than a hundred times faster than our own Milky Way.
(Stunning Star Birth in Earliest Galaxies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A name that I am so very well acquainted with; knew the gentleman so well by sight; seen him a hundred times; came to consult me once, I remember, about a trespass of one of his neighbours; farmer's man breaking into his orchard; wall torn down; apples stolen; caught in the fact; and afterwards, contrary to my judgement, submitted to an amicable compromise.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
During the next fifteen minutes she looked more like a rose than ever, for everyone availed themselves of their privileges to the fullest extent, from Mr. Laurence to old Hannah, who, adorned with a headdress fearfully and wonderfully made, fell upon her in the hall, crying with a sob and a chuckle, Bless you, deary, a hundred times!
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Martin remembered the five dollars Gertrude had given him, and his resolve to return it to her a hundred times over; so he wrote for an advance on royalties of five hundred dollars.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I want to feel a hundred times more thankful than I do.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Yet he would jog quietly on with his teachings, taking no heed to her mutiny, until suddenly she would be conquered by his patience, and break into self-revilings a hundred times stronger than her fault demanded.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No, no; she has qualities which may be trusted; she will never lead any one really wrong; she will make no lasting blunder; where Emma errs once, she is in the right a hundred times.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
There was the great four-post bed with amber hangings as of old; there the toilet-table, the armchair, and the footstool, at which I had a hundred times been sentenced to kneel, to ask pardon for offences by me uncommitted.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Again, and again, and a hundred times again, since the night when the thought had first occurred to me and banished sleep, I had gone over that old story of my poor mother's about my birth, which it had been one of my great delights in the old time to hear her tell, and which I knew by heart.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was no more the withered limb of eld than my own; it was a rounded supple member, with smooth fingers, symmetrically turned; a broad ring flashed on the little finger, and stooping forward, I looked at it, and saw a gem I had seen a hundred times before.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
