How To Use Hundredth In A Sentence
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The lender typically pays 30 to 40 hundredths of a percentage point less than a bank would.
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An exposure of one - hundredth of a second will be enough.
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Each member of the team has a precise role, and perfect timing is crucial - the winner of the field gun is decided by hundredths of a second.
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A centime is the hundredth of a franc, and fifty centimes is ten cents.
Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim
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A metric unit of mass equal to one hundredth ( 10 - 2 ) of a gram.
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Had the young man been prepared by the subtlest master of courtcraft for this interview, so important to his fortunes, he could not have advanced a hundredth part so far with the great earl as he did by that sudden, frank burst of genuine emotion; for
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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I mean upper 1 percent, or what's called the hundredth percentile on intelligence tests.
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
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In June, Dayron Robles, a bespectacled Cuban, shaved one-hundredth of a second off of Liu's world record. The Chinese was going into the Beijing Olympics as the underdog.
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Mitchell beat Lewis by three-hundredths of a second.
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The overall GPA was calculated to the nearest hundredth of a point.
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Like 100-meter sprinters, the top finishers in Olympic and world slalom races are separated by only hundredths of a second.
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Titanium oxide’s market price is about one-hundredth of the rare element — germanium-antimony-tellurium — that is currently used in rewritable Blu-ray discs and DVDs, Ohkoshi said.
Researchers Discover ‘Super Disc’ Material | Impact Lab
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‘For a few hundredths of a second, gamma-ray bursters produce the most extreme flash of any astronomical object,’ says Bruce Grossan of the Physics Division.
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His time for the 100 metres surpassed the previous world record by one hundredth of a second.
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In an arithmetic lesson on "Multiplication of Decimals," in a Form IV class, the preparation should involve a review of the meaning of decimals, of the interconversion of decimals and fractions (for example, .05 = 5 hundredths; 27 ten-thousandths = .0027, etc.); and of the multiplication of fractions.
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education
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And yes, yes, for the hundredth time YES, feminists disapprove of advertisements that stereotype men as ignorant buffoons.
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Once I even got to hang around backstage, but felt rather squeamish about being the hundredth idiot to say, "Gee, I like your music".
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The Swiss franc can be subdivided into hundredths known as Rappen in German, centime in French, centesimo in Italian and rap in Rhaeto-Romanic.
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But then it was unhandsome of them to have made so little of the generous handshakes of the Canadian four who were taking their defeat by eight-hundredths of a second rather better than the British took their victory.
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A metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth ( 10 - 2 ) of a liter.
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In another dormitory up stairs, we found ten or twelve bedrid women, one of them within a few months of completing the hundredth year of her age, but able to converse.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852
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‘Your papa's coming home,’ she whispered to him for the hundredth time as she bounced him on her knee playfully.
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[Page 422] this hundredth is too good for anybody I ever saw.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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As I said, the one hundredth reviewer was going to get a treat and that would be a cameo in the story.
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He obviously forgot to add'and the hundredth time as a massive irritation '.
Times, Sunday Times
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The smell is maybe a hundredth of what it was before.
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Thirdly, it would have been senseless to sacrifice one’s own troops in order to destroy the French army, which without external interference was destroying itself at such a rate that, though its path was not blocked, it could not carry across the frontier more than it actually did in December, namely a hundredth part of the original army.
War and Peace
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Crawford clocked 20.31 secs, with Gatlin eight one hundredths of a second back.
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In her hundredth year, she was still working.
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In a sport in which the times are measured in hundredths of a second, she beat Giove, who took second, by 20 ticks of the clock.
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Under the treaty of 1855 the Choctaws and Chickasaws quitclaimed any supposed interest of theirs in the lands west of the one hundredth degree.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison
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Thirdly, it would have been senseless to sacrifice one's own troops in order to destroy the French army, which without external interference was destroying itself at such a rate that, though its path was not blocked, it could not carry across the frontier more than it actually did in December, namely a hundredth part of the original army.
War and Peace
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And not a hundredth part of such accused persons can cause a Minister of the Crown to be interpellated on their behalf.
Old Calabria
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And his run was just three-hundredths of a second outside his lifetime best, set in the worlds in Seville two years ago.
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The praise that emanated from the media when his term of office reached its one hundredth day surpassed anything ever said about any other President at so early a point and was notably devoid of restraint and reserve.
Back from the Mountains
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For the hundredth time she wondered why she had not already been tried and condemned by some sort of court.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Nervously the men wandered about; the two wounded men became the center of attraction and related for the hundredth time their sensations when the juramentado had struck them down.
The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old
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One regrets for the hundredth time that incidents such as this should be swallowed up as minor details in the totality of the battle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well, the hundredth anniversary of Plassey falls next June the twenty-third.
Fiancée
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Such as basis points: a hundredth of a percentage point.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Board says that a new assessment of the polonium impact puts the risk at only one hundredth of its previous estimate.
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The one hundredth race of the regatta came down to a battle between Denmark and Austria.
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This set features two "special episodes," one of life-changing stories and another celebrating the show's hundredth episode.
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It was worth losing one hundredth of a point in interest.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is something called the hundredth monkey effect - a phenomenon where supposedly a learned behavior spreads instantaneously from one group of monkeys to another once a critical number has learned it.
New York Daily Photo
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We are trying to do biology knowing perhaps only a tenth, or one hundredth, of our species.
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The first twofigures after the decimal point indicate tenths and hundredthsrespectively.
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So deduct one hundredth of a second if you are being harsh.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was subdivided into 100 centesimi (singular: centesimo), which translates to "one hundredth".
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The bank celebrates its hundredth anniversary in December.
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The one hundredth anniversary of the battle of Plassey was celebrated in England June 23, 1857, to obtain funds for a monument to Lord Clive, who secured India to England.
The Grand Old Man
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Then we have the gas commonly called carbonic acid in extremely minute quantities, about one part in 2,500, or four one-hundredths of one per cent.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
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Largo; not the hundredth part of the weight of a single quaver was spared us; stiff and ghastly, like a bronze pigtail, the battuta of this Andante was swung over our heads; even the feathers on the angel's wings were turned into corkscrew curls -- rigid, like those of the seven year's war.
On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,
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Here the bridge between us is the Society of St Peter Apostle, whose hundredth birthday we celebrate this year.
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In these oblations there is a progression as to the relation between the kind and the quantity: of the corn, the sixth of a tenth, that is, a sixtieth part of the quantity specified; of the oil, the tenth of a tenth, that is, an hundredth part; and of the flock, one from every two hundred.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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And when Tim Hagan, with straight left for the hundredth time to bleeding nose and mangled mouth, and with ever reiterant right hook to stomach, had him dazed and reeling, the breath whistling and sobbing through his lacerated lips — was no time for succor from palaces and bank accounts.
CHAPTER IV
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These new-generation chemicals are 10 times more effective than earlier compounds at only a hundredth the cost.
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For example: ten spaces on the vernier being made equal to nine on the scale, each vernier space is one tenth less than a scale space; and if the first line or division of the vernier agree exactly with any line of the scale, the next line of the vernier must be one tenth of a tenth (or one hundredth) of an inch from agreement with the next _scale_ division; the following vernier line must be two hundredths out, and so on: therefore, the number of such differences (from the next tenth on the scale) at which a vernier line agrees with a scale line, when set, is the number of hundredths to be added to the said tenth; (in a common barometer, reading only to hundredths of an inch).
Barometer and Weather Guide
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The blue shift was discernible on scales of 100 million light-years, or roughly one-hundredth the scale of previous studies.
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So long as we had no analytical methods of sufficient delicacy to estimate with certainty the hundredth, or at least the tenth of a milligramme of carbonic acid, it was very difficult to determine the quantity in the air at a given time and place.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882
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A commission of five persons, to be known as the Provincetown Tercentenary Commission, shall be ap - pointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, for the purpose of establishing at Provincetown and in the neighboring towns permanent memorials to com - memorate the three hundredth anni\ersary of the signing of the compact in the cabin of the Mayflower and the first landing of the Pilgrims on American soil.
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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The meaning of which is this: -- in Rome, the customary interest for money was what was called _centesimæ usuræ_; that is, the hundredth part, or one per cent.
The Caesars
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The intermediate arm is finished to a tolerance of 0.008 mm, and the cams controlling the eccentric shaft are machined to tolerances of a few hundredths of a millimeter.
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A century after the Revolution of 1688, there was thought of celebrating its hundredth anniversary.
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I liked the odometer giving distance to the hundredths in case you really want to get picky about your mileage!
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The bank celebrates its hundredth anniversary in December.
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The cardiograph is constructed with an unerring accuracy by which a one-hundredth part of a second is indicated on a graph.
Autobiography of a Yogi
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The internationally recognized abbreviation of the meter is m. Meters are divided up into smaller units so a decimeter is one tenth of a meter, a centimeter is one hundredth of a meter, and a millimeter is one thousandth of a meter.
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An omer was but the tenth part of an ephah (Exod.xvi. 36) and the one hundredth part of a chomer, or homer, and contained about six pints.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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About the hundredth day, disorder of the bowels, with copious and bilious evacuations, and these continued for a considerable time, and again assumed the dysenteric form with pain; but relief of all the other complaints.
Of The Epidemics
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Roger sighed for what seemed the hundredth time that day.
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The internationally recognized abbreviation of the meter is m. Meters are divided up into smaller units so a decimeter is one tenth of a meter, a centimeter is one hundredth of a meter, and a millimeter is one thousandth of a meter.
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We are "atmosphered" — to use Goethe's word — during these days with the thoughts of this great man's work in the founding of the Institution whose hundredth anniversary we are celebrating.
The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921
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A hundredth part of the cruel treatment you met with would have been enough to get the better of any man's reasoning.
ALEXANDER THE CORRECTOR
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But stopwatches have become so sophisticated that scouts can clock times to hundredths of a second.
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Two cyclists could be separated by just a couple of hundredths of a second at the finish line.
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‘Your papa's coming home,’ she whispered to him for the hundredth time as she bounced him on her knee playfully.
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It did not seem at all, though I viewed it a good while as it was sucking, to thrust more of its nose into the skin then the very snout D, nor did it cause the least discernable pain, and yet the blood seem'd to run through its head very quick and freely, so that it seems there is no part of the skin but the blood is dispers'd into, nay, even into the _cuticula_; for had it thrust its whole nose in from D to CC, it would not have amounted to the supposed thickness of that _tegument_, the length of the nose being not more then a three hundredth part of an inch.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
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1991 was the two hundredth anniversary of Mozart's death.
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You can control the placement of all objects to within hundredths of a millimeter.
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At one end of the drum are gear teeth, 1 mm. apart on centers, which can be made to engage a worm revolving a pointer in front of a dial graduated to hundredths; by means of this and a filar eyepiece, the distance between the start of the two rows of spark dots on the drum can be measured accurately to 0.01 mm.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171
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Read in studio Welcome back: Next year the Gloucestershire Regiment celebrates its three hundredth birthday.
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Had the young man been prepared by the subtlest master of courtcraft for this interview, so important to his fortunes, he could not have advanced a hundredth part so far with the great earl as he did by that sudden, frank burst of genuine emotion; for Warwick was extremely sensitive to the admiration he excited, -- vain or proud of it, it matters not which; grateful as a child for love, and inexorable as a woman for slight or insult: in rude ages, one sex has often the qualities of the other.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 02
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Beatrice was very pleased to reach her hundredth birthday and make her local paper.
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There are people in this world for whom one hundredth of that sum is the difference between life and death.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once there he got rid of those beastly worms, planted flowers and trees, and built his hundredth church, which he dedicated to the Holy Apostles.
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It was the fourth day, and I was lounging in the camp's little market, improving my Persian by learning the ninety-nine names of God (only the Bactrian camels know the hundredth, which is why they look so deuced superior) from an Astrabad caravan-guard-turned-murderer, when Kutebar came in a great bustle to take me to Yakub Beg at once.
The Sky Writer
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The sparings of the whole week which have not been laid out for chances in the lottery, are spent for this evening's amusement; and in the vast pit you see, besides the families of comfortable artisans who can evidently afford it, a multitude of the ragged poor, whose presence, even at the low rate of eight or ten soldi [Footnote: The soldo is the hundredth part of the
Venetian Life
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The three hundredth lay, I say.
Moby Dick
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'Never think yourself safe because you do your duty in ninety-nine points; it is the hundredth which is to be the ground of your self - denial, which must evidence, or rather instance and realize, your faith.'
Abbeychurch
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Mother Jones died after celebrating, supposedly, her one hundredth birthday in nineteen thirty. Professor Gorn says she was really ninety-three.
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If the automobile industry had made as much progress as the computer industry in the past fifty years, a car today would cost a hundredth of a cent and go faster than the speed of light.
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His time for the 100 metres surpassed the previous world record by one hundredth of a second.
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His time over 200m was four hundredths of a second behind first place.
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The Tragically Hip – Little bones, something on, New orleans is sinking, Nautical Distaster, Gift shop, at the hundredth meridian (theres more)
Matthew Yglesias » The Ultimate Nineties Alt-Rock Playlist
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Vicinal faces are typically only hundredths of one degree in inclination from the main crystal face on which they form.
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I could hardly begrudge him his lack of enthusiasm, we were probably the hundredth group he'd spoken to.
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Small things can shave a few hundredths from your time, and be the difference between a final and not, a medal and not — a gold and not.
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I have been in many a richer home where there was not a hundredth part of the true gentility -- the gentility of unapologizing simplicity and kindness.
The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment
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His historical work of 1898 was also a piece of symbolism, deliberately timed to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the publication of the first book in vernacular Ukrainian.
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There I was, sitting half-naked in public for the tenth time that day, the hundredth time that month, the millionth time in my life — and the associations were inconsistent?
The Case Against Breast-Feeding
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With all this excitement over the hundredth shuttle launch, I took a trip over to the International Space Station webpage.
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Many bigger sums than that -- ay, hundreds and thousands of dollars had I played away -- but they had none of them cost me the hundredth or thousandth part of the trouble to get that these twenty dollars fifty had; two full months had I been slavin 'away in the woods and prairies to airn them, and I caught the fever there.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
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His time for the 100 metres surpassed the previous world record by one hundredth of a second.
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He missed out as a fastest loser by one hundredth of a second.
The Sun
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(having the value of one franc) and the _stotinka_ (centime), being the hundredth part of a _lev_.
Bulgaria
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I guarantee you're the hundredth person in history to think they "discovered" this spot.
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The leaves disappeared from the penny only in 1967, when they were replaced by a rock dove to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of confederation.
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In racing, these swimsuits might help a swimmer swim anywhere from a few hundredths to a few seconds faster.
