Citations:hundred


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * True; and she may be to us both caution and example; caution, that we should shun her sin; or a sign of what judgment will overtake such as shall not be prevented by this caution; so Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, with the two hundred and fifty men that perished in their sin, did also become a sign or example to others to beware.
 * I further thought thus: If a man runs a hundred pounds into the shopkeeper's debt, and after that shall pay for all that he shall fetch; yet, if this old debt stands still in the book uncrossed, for that the shopkeeper may sue him, and cast him into prison till he shall pay the debt.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * We were, as we believed, many hundred miles from any land; but this apparition seemed to denote that it was not, in reality, so distant as we had supposed.
 * If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundredfold; for that one creature's sake I would make peace with the whole kind!

a hundred

 * I had already been three months in prison, and although I was still weak and in continual danger of a relapse, I was obliged to travel nearly a hundred miles to the country town where the court was held.
 * 2006 November 3, Susan Allport (guest), “Getting the skinny on fat”, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, National Public Radio:
 * That has really soared over the past a [sic] hundred years or so.
 * 2008 January 21, John Eggerton (interviewee), “The FCC's New Rules for Media Ownership”, Justice Talking, National Public Radio:
 * [I]t applies to only the top twenty markets in removing the ban, whereas in two thousand three the FCC was essentially proposing removing it let's say in the top a [sic] hundred and seventy markets.
 * 2009 October 13, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, “In Israel, Kibbutz Life Undergoes Reinvention”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio:
 * Hanatonwas founded in the nineteen eighties, but from the original a [sic] hundred and fourteen members, by two thousand and six, only eleven were left.
 * 2009 October 21, John Ydstie, “U.S. To Order Bailout Firms To Cut Exec Pay”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio:
 * Overall, the top a [sic] hundred and seventy-five executives at the companies
 * 2011, Kory Stamper, “What ‘Ironic’ Really Means”, “Ask the Editor”, Merriam-Webster:
 * Ironic has been used vaguely at best for a good a [sic] hundred and fifty years.

oh nine hundred (not followed by 'hours')

 * 1987, Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers, Penguin (ISBN 9781101500422), page 63:
 * “At oh-nine-hundred muster for sick call and see the doctor.” Jenkins' jaw muscles twitched. He answered slowly, “I don't need any pills—sir. I'll get by.” “Oh-nine-hundred. That's an order.” He left. Jenkins started his monotonous chant again.
 * 2002, W.E.B. Griffin, Under Fire, Penguin (ISBN 9781440639036), page 282:
 * [...] and the Post-Dispatch wanted to know when would be a convenient time for them to send a reporter and a photographer to take some pictures. “Tomorrow morning at nine.” “Oh nine hundred, aye, aye, sir.”
 * 2013, Sandra McDonald, The Stars Down Under, Tor Books (ISBN 9781466845831):
 * “You'll be meeting with Captain Kuvik at oh-nine-hundred. He meets with every new instructor, nothing to worry about there. Until then I'll take you on the guided tour. Officer training is down the street, in their own building with their own faculty...

oh nine hundred hours

 * 2016, Sophia McDougall, Space Hostages, HarperCollins (ISBN 9780062294043):
 * “The last Space Elevator capsule departs Earth Station San Diego at oh nine hundred hours.” It was already half past seven. My stomach felt so tight, I wondered whether the dove had gotten its diagnosis wrong.
 * 2018, John Bemelmans Marciano, The No-Good Nine (ISBN 9781101997840), page 220:
 * Please report to the TOWER at oh nine hundred hours tomorrow morning. Repeat: ALL HUMAN children must report to the Tower at oh nine hundred hours.

oh ten hundred (not followed by 'hours')

 * 1999, J. D. Robb, Conspiracy in Death, Penguin (ISBN 9781101203705):
 * "And you have that report done, in triplicate, and on my desk by oh ten hundred. Stand back," she added, very quietly now. It took ten humming seconds with their eyes warring before Bowers dropped her gaze and shifted aside.
 * 2010, David Baldacci, Deliver Us from Evil, Grand Central Publishing (ISBN 9780446576253):
 * “Private tour starts at oh-ten hundred. His past experience shows he'll travel with a minimum of four and a max of six muscle, holsters and Glocks. They hit the entrance. The tour guide is our plant.
 * 2014, Emma Pass, ACID, Delacorte Press (ISBN 9780385372411), page 86:
 * “Come over to the clinic in the morning, at oh-ten hundred.”

oh three hundred thirty

 * 2015, Peter Halsey Sherwood, The Murdery Delicious High Seas Horror (ISBN 9781503522039), page 54:
 * If the boys were awakened by the light of the flames, the final deed must have occurred sometime around oh-three-hundred-thirty hours.
 * 2017, James M. Myers, Slaughterhouse Rules (SHR Publishing, ISBN 9780998281896):
 * Every morning between 03:30 hours and 04:30 hours (oh three-hundred thirty and oh four-hundred thirty military time) we were abruptly awakened by senior ranking boot camp recruits. They would begin each day by banging on steel garbage cans with broom handles, ...
 * 2017, Phyllis Ann Karr, The Fanciers & Realizers MEGAPACK: The Complete Steampunk Series (Wildside Press LLC, ISBN 9781479428762), page 464:
 * But at the best estimate we have as of now...between oh three hundred thirty and oh three hundred forty-five hours this morning.” “Oh, God! Oh, dear God! If I'd only stuck around a-another half an hour, I m-might have been there to...”