• In the fall of 2011, he sold two Mongolian oviraptor nests for more than three hundred and fifty dollars each, a tyrannosaurus ileum for five hundred and sixty-one dollars, a tyrannosaurus tooth for three hundred and twenty-five dollars, and a tyrannosaurus tail vertebra for four hundred and ten dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

  • In December, 2010, a hundred and fifty-one Zetas broke out of jail in Nuevo Laredo.

    NEWYORKER: The Kingpins

  • Some five thousand people were killed in the war last year, including a hundred and ninety-one foreign troops and at least a thousand civilians.

    NEWYORKER: The Taliban��s Opium War

  • Notwithstanding a fair amount of cheating I used frozen puff pastry it took a day. (The crust broke.) I thought of how many cooks it would take to prepare a hundred birds for that one dish, and how many roaring fires and hand-turned spits to produce a hundred other dishes.

    NEWYORKER: A Fork of One��s Own

  • We each take a few seconds to consider a one hundred forty character blurb and then hammer out our reactions by way of a Tweet or status update.

    FORBES: The 5 Most Endangered Words On The Internet

  • But, rather than getting speakers to stand behind a lectern and address hundred of students at one time, they use a pre selected groups of 12 students as an Executive Committee to attend intimate workshops with them.

    FORBES: New Words Of Welcome For The MBA Class Of 2012

  • This year, with another poor team, the Mets are on track to draw perhaps 2.4 million, though their payroll remains a hundred and forty million dollars, one of the highest in the major leagues.

    NEWYORKER: Madoff��s Curveball

  • Less than an hour by ferry from the mainland, Mljet is an island of just a few hundred souls, a dozen villages, two tidal lakes and one solitary road that scrambles its way across the thickly wooded hills of the interior.

    BBC: The perfect trip: Croatia

  • It has a few hundred houses, a post office, and two churches one Anglican and one Catholic both perched near the edge of the lake.

    NEWYORKER: Unconventional Crude

  • Some would say a mosquito is worth one hundred trillion dollars (and if you were marooned alone on the moon, and suddenly a mosquito appeared, I believe that little guy would be worth all the galaxies in the universe, in terms of biological companionship).

    FORBES: Why The Rio Earth Summit Matters More Than Ever

  • He received between fifty and a hundred invitations, proceeding to bunk with a few of the respondents, and even the family of one.

    NEWYORKER: You��re Welcome

  • Mr. DANIEL YERGIN (Cambridge Energy Research Associates): When people build offshore platforms, they build them for a hundred-year storm. 2005 was a year that you had not one but two hundred-year storms within a matter of weeks of each other, and the result was one of the biggest energy shocks since the 1970s.

    NPR: Oil Prices Likely to Stay High Next Year

  • After fourteen years of planning and construction, at a cost of a hundred and thirty-five million dollars, the gallery occupies one connected space in three buildings.

    NEWYORKER: Boola Boola

  • You wait a hundred years for one commission on devolution and then several come along (almost) at once.

    BBC: Another day, another commission on devolution

  • I've bought over a hundred properties and never saw the inside of one.

    NPR: Housing Auctions Surge as Foreclosures Mount

  • This radical threat we face today is committed to a hundred year war, and has been waging one against us for decades ... in Beirut, Somalia, embassies in Africa, Saudi Arabia, on the USS Cole.

    CNN: Thompson's November 13, 2007, speech to The Citadel

  • At one point, John McCain now just one of a hundred senators and struggling to stay in office spent half a minute waving stiff-armed, trying to catch the eye of a clerk so he could cast his vote.

    NEWYORKER: The Empty Chamber

  • One hundred and six (106) patients were randomly allocated in a one-to-one ratio to undergo renal denervation with previous anti-hypertensive medication treatment or to maintain previous anti-hypertensive medication treatment alone (control group) at 24 participating centers.

    FORBES: Promising One Year Results For Renal Denervation In Resistant Hypertension Spark Hype

  • On December 14, 1911, one hundred years ago, Roald Amundsen, and a small team of four others, accomplished what no one else had ever done before: they reached the South Pole.

    FORBES: South to the Pole: Leadership Wins the Race

  • The Pope family foundation of which Art Pope is the chairman and president, and one of four directors reportedly has assets of nearly a hundred and fifty million dollars.

    NEWYORKER: State for Sale

  • These are households where someone is chartering a private jet one minute and deciding to host a last minute soiree for five hundred of their closest friends the next.

    FORBES: Meet Mary Louise Starkey, the Woman Behind "Butler Bootcamp"

  • The difference between direct and indirect manipulation between three buttons and one button, three hundred dollars and fifteen dollars, and a roller ball supported by ball bearings and a free-rolling ball is not trivial.

    NEWYORKER: Creation Myth

  • On the streets of Tallinn, large, slick yes posters outnumbered small and tatty no ones by a hundred to one.

    ECONOMIST: Baltic referendums

  • Stomp out one bad guy and a hundred more take his place.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • They spent about a minute and a half, two minutes on the roof each day, and then they were discharged, given a certificate and an award one hundred rubles.

    NPR: 'Voices of Chernobyl': Survivors' Stories

  • Under no circumstances may foreigners acquire direct ownership of lands or waters within a zone of one hundred kilometers along the frontiers and of fifty kilometers along the shores of the country.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Mexico's Glass House

  • "If you have one hundred people and one person is out, it isn't even a speed bump, " adds Ted Clark, executive director of the Center for Family Business at Northeastern University.

    WSJ: Debate Over Sick Leave Intensifies

  • He helped him navigate meetings with investors, took him to visit Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, and set him up with lawyers to get him an O-1 visa, for exceptional persons, which might allow him to stay in the U.S. Ternovskiy planned a trip to Las Vegas and bought a bike, a nice one, for twenty-four hundred dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Roulette Russian

  • The price of petit sale (a kind of New England boiled dinner), one pear, and a half bottle of Bordeaux is seven hundred francs.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'World War II Writings'

  • Reading the reports, that opinion is going to be solidified and making it that bit harder to sell a Microsoft branded product, especially one that is one hundred percent Microsoft on both the software and hardware side of things.

    FORBES: Microsoft's PR Team Misfires As The Surface Pro Launches

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