单词 | two hundred |
例句 | “Greased lightning don’t weigh no two hundred twenty pounds.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She went for two hundred and eighteen dollars in a hasty exchange, a drop in price occasioned by the realities of the local market. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z One or two hundred people in a day. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like learning a new language, except there were nearly two hundred unfamiliar letters, and you had to invent your own words a lot of the time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He found the number for Little Italy Pizza and Pasta and ordered two hundred pizzas to be delivered to the school at 11:00 a.m. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Two hundred and forty-eight, two hundred and sixty, two hundred and seventy dollars. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z One hundred and twenty kids with two pieces of trash each is two hundred forty things to throw away. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The elder Andrews was a prosperous farmer; he had not much money in the bank, but he owned land valued at approximately two hundred thousand dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She goes past her and holds her with two hundred to go. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z An analysis of the entire Chicago data reveals evidence of teacher cheating in more than two hundred classrooms per year, roughly 5 percent of the total. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I was two hundred miles offshore last summer. I had a signal the whole time.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Vintage stuff, a few pieces of it are almost two hundred years old. We copy the parts as they wear out.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z One man was going to pick two hundred pounds of cotton, and another three hundred. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We march into the amphitheater to the applause of family, students, city officials, the Emperor’s emissaries, and an honor guard of nearly two hundred legionnaires. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z By 1610 Britain alone had about two hundred vessels operating off Newfoundland and New England; hundreds more came from France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He looked up to see a few snowflakes, and, about two hundred yards ahead, Reggie’s white Chevy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z My punishment was to stay after school and write I will not steal two hundred times on the chalkboard. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z More than two hundred screaming, sobbing, trembling and confused children jammed the badly ventilated hall, and, for lack of enough benches, most of us stood up like bristles. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, over a period of two hundred and sixty years a lot of Tang men no longer knew what the queue had originally symbolized. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z If he gave the money to X-Ray, at least he’d still have two hundred and fifty-seven dollars left. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Here were people who packed two hundred pounds of dishes into a single box the size of a doghouse, or even worse, people who didn't pack at all. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “We only got about two hundred men,” Tom said thoughtfully. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “You have to put up two hundred lire to make twenty,” he said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “It’s real literature, the kind of human story people will read in two hundred years,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I moved carefully all the next day so as not to do anything or have anything happen to me that would make me go back to two hundred and seven again. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Breaking the Silence Can I have two hundred dollars to take to the Dallas Cup? you ask. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z When all the two hundred and fifty or so boys and girls were settled down in Assembly, the Trunchbull marched on to the platform. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z At chapel the day following the heaviest snowfall, two hundred volunteers were solicited to spend the day shoveling them out, as part of the Emergency Usefulness policy adopted by the faculty that fall. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z School Superintendent Virgil Blossom testified for a long time about the details of the school board’s plan for integration, which had taken two years and two hundred meetings to devise. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He realizes that he has not asked the price, but without a thought he signs the receipt for two hundred dollars. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Called the Norte Chico, the region is studded with isolated knolls, twenty to fifty feet high and as much as two hundred feet long. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Burnham imagined terrified men, women, and children trying to slide down the glass flanks of the roof and breaking through, then falling two hundred feet to the exhibit floor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Ana Diaz thought there were close to two hundred. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m afraid that for the rest of my two or two hundred years I will still have all these questions and I will never fit in. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “Okay, first of all, it wasn’t two hundred and fifty dollars. It was on sale.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z I would bet that my working vocabulary wasn’t two hundred words. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The water was very deep and often we had to let out two hundred feet of line before we touched bottom. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly a hundred of the two hundred thousand children who rode the trains are still alive. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It is said, in the Book of Enoch, that two hundred angels led by Azazel, the keeper of God’s throne, came to Earth after falling in love with the human women they had watched. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z And today, like each time they have landed on my hand for the past two hundred years, I wonder at the weight of a sparrow. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “What is important in baseball about the number two hundred and sixteen?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Although the overwhelming number of delegates were black, there were more than three hundred Indians, two hundred Coloureds, and one hundred whites. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z N could be two for some women, two hundred for others. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if he could find his way back to the platform, no one would let him down, and he couldn’t jump two hundred feet to the ground. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The golden arrow sailed about two hundred feet, then disintegrated into smoke. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Right now, probably closer to two hundred—why?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She dipped two hundred oars and mounted the largest ram in the fleet, though Davos had grave doubts about her captain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Chicago takes up about two hundred twenty-seven square miles,” says Zoe. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The Street in Cairo exhibit alone employed nearly two hundred Egyptians and contained twenty-five distinct buildings, including a fifteen-hundred-seat theater that introduced America to a new and scandalous form of entertainment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It can be imagined what effect Rocinante had on two hundred teenage prisoners of education just settling down to serve their winter sentence. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z One estimate, certainly an exaggeration, put the toll at two hundred. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Only thirty-seven members of last year’s Forbes 400, a list of the richest Americans, inherited their wealth, down from almost two hundred in the mid-1980s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z This one was particularly impressive, over two hundred feet long and wide enough for two wagons to pass each other, it stretched over the canyon the Omethi had carved into the rock. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The magistrate wanted two hundred and fifty rubles in thirty days. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Straight ahead of them, perhaps two hundred feet away, stood the big white farmhouse. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z "It wasn't so long ago the government paid two hundred dollars bounty for every Indian killed by settlers." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Now it is eighty thousand and leaping pell mell on in a mathematical progression—a hundred thousand in three years and perhaps two hundred thousand in ten, with no end in sight. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was bronze and heavy, with intricate carvings, and Seven was pretty sure it was at least two hundred years old. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Parker walked back outside, and about two hundred supporters were there to cheer him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Doesn’t stop her from making two hundred dollars a picture. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z And the harvest was a big one—close to two hundred bushels per acre. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In my busiest year, eighth grade, I served at over two hundred masses. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The village, in which we Bradshaws lived for more than two hundred years, covers barely a third of our island’s length. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "But you don't need two hundred and fifty-six dollars to win!" she shouted. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “The peregrine falcon is the world’s fastest animal when it’s in its hunting stoop. It can dive at speeds near two hundred miles per hour.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He come to the field, pull two ears of com, let the birds and weevil eat two hundred. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll pass you across the river. Give me two hundred pesos,” they say to the unwary; then they take their clients to the riverbank and assault them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A hundred steps, two hundred steps, he lost count as he climbed, watching his feet.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “When you’ve lived nearly two hundred years, some things are obvious.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z So that would be thirty- two hundred pumps of the plunger. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it takes two hundred dong to buy the same things. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z A collective gasp went up from two hundred campers and an elephant. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In the days leading up to the launch, two hundred protesters, led by the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, made their way to Cape Kennedy. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And now a subtle change was coming over the two hundred and fifty watching children in the audience. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Turtle did not tell her partner that they had bought two hundred shares of SEA at $15.25 a share. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not too much to say that geologists wouldn’t grasp the full implications of this thought for two hundred years, when finally they adopted plate tectonics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Besides, we still have about two hundred and thirty pounds of winter potatoes in the spice storeroom.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It's like they took the whole huge, black Sears Tower, broke it up into short chunks, painted it with friendlier suburban colors, and then spread it out over two hundred acres of farmland. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Some two hundred Indians watched them from the shore, politely inviting them to come back for another short visit. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Today I been selling ammo at about two hundred times the normal rate 1 usually sell it.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Tea Cake was spending and doing out of his own pocket, so Janie never told him about the two hundred dollars she had pinned inside her shirt next to her skin. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Men and women in those days probably worked from dawn to noon two hundred days a year, which works out to about twelve hundred hours of work annually. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Enrique guesses there are more than two hundred migrants on board, a tiny army of them who charged out of the cemetery with nothing but their cunning. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It had about two hundred and fifty pupils aged from five to just under twelve years old. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z A righteous man, we said, is two hundred four. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “Every day in the United States, two hundred new jail cells are constructed. I don’t want one of them to have my name on it.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Even my own church, the Wesleyan Church, handed over their two hundred thousand African students to the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I plunged into the sea and willed the currents to take me far, for away—a hundred yards, two hundred yards. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “You want me to give you two hundred thousand kruge? And what do I get for this generous gesture?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I remember borrowing two hundred dollars from Ben, and it feeling like a million. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “The post office, Harry! About two hundred owls, all sitting on shelves, all color-coded depending on how fast you want your letter to get there!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The first day is used to whittle down two hundred fencers to forty-eight. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Talent pipes were recognized as clear marks of distinction at most sizable inns within two hundred miles of Imre. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She had written the final post only days ago, trailed by two hundred and seventy-four comments so far. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "And two hundred and fourteen meters isn't a hard limit, per se." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For about two hundred years, it was the sole meeting ground of two of the Americas’ largest societies—societies similar in scale to, say, the Maya realm, but much less well known. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Only after some two hundred of the Indigenous residents had fallen did the troops overpower the Shawnee. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The ghouls and ghosts closed in - two hundred of them facing Jason in anticipation, as if he might lead them in the national anthem. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Any sense of isolation she may have had withered and died in the presence of some two hundred sinners earnestly requesting to be plunged beneath a red, redeeming flood. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z There were straight rows of trees—colonnades—growing out of the seedbed of trees that had fallen two hundred years before and sunk and become the earth itself. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Before I left, he presented me with a gift: an automatic pistol and two hundred rounds of ammunition. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now there were rumors: a terrible defeat, someone had blundered, two hundred thousand Rebs, the Eleventh Corps had deserted. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the original D&D module, the entrance to the Tomb of Horrors was hidden near “a low, flat-topped hill, about two hundred yards wide and three hundred yards long.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Pong guessed there must be more than two hundred people crammed in with them. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Then Peaches gave them her whole two hundred dollars wedding gift money, which J.T. said he was going to pay back but I know he didn’t have a job. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Joseph wondered if it was the same necklace his uncle wore, which would mean the medallion was now over two hundred years old. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour, if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z We pay two hundred and forty dollars each, the kind of price you can get away with charging people whose savings accounts would go to waste otherwise. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Billy kept a card file of each place where they appeared, and during the 1920s they accumulated nearly two hundred cards. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “Why are you going to spend two hundred dollars if you’re so messed around about the marriage?” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z About two hundred street gangsters in Chiapas share the rolling criminal enterprise. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Where are we to get two hundred rubles?” said the bald man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Farmer, the anthropologist, designed his own study centered on a random group of about two hundred women in Cange. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z While I was in my room designing the logo on the computer, Stan completely chatted up my dad, convincing him to get Kalbro to donate two hundred dollars to the cause. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The expression 7.39842 x 1010 is more comprehensible and legible than seventy- three billion nine hundred and eighty-four million and two hundred thousand. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We moored the Queen Anne’s Revenge on the back side of the island where the cliffs rose straight up a good two hundred feet. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “She worth plenty money. Two hundred dollars. Who bid two hundred dollars?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The distance in form, intention, mood and expression between Schubert’s songs for voice and piano and those of, say, Adele is remarkably short, considering they are separated by two hundred years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He still had to bring water to Group E. Stanley could see them digging about two hundred yards away. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “Well I” said Arthur, and he went off sadly down the two hundred and eight stairs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He must have weighed two hundred and twenty or thirty pounds, and I could only move him two or three inches at a time. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “We went out and did another test with two hundred different people,” explains Darrel Rhea, another principal in the firm. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She starts doing the math: At this point, there are about two hundred evacuation shelters. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They are Edith Cavell’s, the British nurse who smuggled two hundred Allied soldiers out of Belgium in The Last Lot, the 1914—1918 war, and who was caught and shot for treason. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The sides were as smooth as glass, and the lowest window opened two hundred feet above the ground. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s in the monsoon region; annual rainfall in the coastal areas is about two hundred inches, and the average temperature of those areas is close to ninety degrees. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Try again. What is two hundred divided by four?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z For a good distance, perhaps two hundred yards, it was fairly clear. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He had reached the footpath and was facing Alex, about two hundred feet away. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z There are two hundred perfectly good traps stacked on the dock right now, all licensed and tagged, not doing nothing since my dad quit fishing. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Over two hundred people showed up the next weekend. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She spent like two hundred dollars all by herself.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z As she put it on the table, his practiced eye picked out the amount: two hundred dollars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z About two hundred yards from the jetty, along a narrow dusty road, stood a simple wooden hotel painted white. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z At the very bottom of J. T.’s organization were as many as two hundred members known as the rank and file. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z As the settlers were outnumbered across most of the continent until the first decade of the nineteenth century, this meant that their interactions with Indigenous peoples were defined by violence for two hundred years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Dad tossed the anchor into a deep hole about two hundred yards from the main channel. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I drove about two hundred miles to get to the general area. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z About two hundred thousand years ago, the people began migrating out from Africa and around the globe. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “What is a ball-player that bats two hundred and thirty? It’s awfully impressive.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Zeitoun realized that two men, one on either end of the ladder, would not be enough to lift a woman of over two hundred pounds. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z When Bastian is maybe two hundred yards away, he turns and raises his left hand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Another kid thanked me for his two hundred dollars. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z After two hundred years of trying, the Earth finally had an age. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There were the three canvas sacks closed with copper wire, and inside of them the seven thousand two hundred fourteen pieces of eight, which continued glowing like embers in the darkness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Okay. Fine. Make it two hundred thousand. And I’ll toss in the puppy.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The other complained too much about the physical hardships—demanding that he be allowed to sit in a chair and be carried for the last two hundred miles. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z New England has had two quakes of magnitude 6.0 or greater in the last two hundred years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z So he begged his father for bread, received two hundred dollars by return mail, and, early one morning, he clambered joyfully aboard a Trailways bus bound for the capital. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z What if people had forced turtles to come out of their shells two hundred million years ago? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Not a hint or rumor in two hundred years, and now Tizerkane warriors were riding through the gates of the Great Library. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And between me and Lu, one of us was going to run the two hundred meter, and one of us was going to run the one hundred meter. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z But in Maria’s time, nearly two hundred years before photography was invented, documenting research was much more difficult. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But it was large and long enough to seat two hundred, and half again that many if they crowded close. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I wonder if, unlike Thoreau, two hundred years from now I might still be able to visit my pond and forest. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “For two hundred and sixteen rings, I’ve sat on my roots and listened to people hope for things. And a lot of times, those wishes never happened, I’m guessing.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They passed two hundred feet away, the ground shuddering lightly. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “They weren’t worthless. The gray rug cost four hundred. The blue-and-white rug, four hundred. Her necklace was seventy-five. Her bracelet was two hundred. My cell phone was three hundred fifty.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z But when I do, I discover the secrets of pollination, that honeybees' wings beat two hundred times per second. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She didn't need a lemonade stand on Sunday if she had two hundred and eight dollars today! The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z I think I cried for about two hundred hours. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I counted my money and found I had two hundred and thirty dollars left. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We talk about how his life is more hectic than ever—he now receives two hundred emails a day—yet he insists he can juggle the ever-expanding load and that he isn’t burned out. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He had the body of a little fatty, though he was big, close to two hundred pounds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We settled on a buck a shirt for two hundred shirts, and after Hank saw our logo, he said in the name of community he’d print them up for free. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z That meant they could glean about two hundred fifty today and still be within their quota. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I tried to convince my parents that I needed an expensive dress—two hundred dollars—to wear to the event. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z During the first two months of the case, the Crown entered some two thousand documents into the record and called two hundred ten witnesses, two hundred of whom were members of the Special Branch. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That is the rationale behind the American Heritage Dictionary’s Usage Panel: two hundred authors, journalists, editors, scholars, and other public figures whose writing shows that they choose their words with care. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She knew well that every hotel within two hundred miles would be booked already. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A white woman from a poor rural Alabama town, Marsha had never been to New York, but she was about to be honored at a dinner with two hundred guests. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z More than two hundred other buildings erected by states, corporations, and foreign governments stippled the surrounding acreage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At night the temperature is bitter cold, as much as two hundred degrees below zero, but at noontime near the equator it can reach a comfortable sixty-five degrees. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A floating reception force of more than four thousand Indians—two hundred war canoes, each carrying twenty or thirty people—greeted the Spanish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The King of England painfully climbed the two hundred and eight steps which led to Merlyn’s tower room, and knocked on the door. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Bore has a seat on the Coffee Exchange, and if he sells more than two hundred lots in a day, he’s in a good mood. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z “About two hundred yards down the street. Tyree captured this about five minutes ago.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She claimed to have seen two hundred years. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She got two hundred and thirty-five pages left. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z No matter how carefully Matt explained to them the difference between two hundred ten job seekers and only twenty jobs, it didn’t penetrate. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Assume further that .5 percent— one out of two hundred people—actually have cancer. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the summer, my sister presented two hundred mug rugs to Mr. Abbas with a bill she wrote up for one thousand dollars. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They could be distracted from watching a fight with mean razors by the glorious smell of hot tar being poured by roadmen two hundred yards away. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was said that he was more than two hundred years old, and that he had discovered the Philosopher’s Stone and the Elixir of Life. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he leaned over toward Milo and whispered softly, “By the eight million two hundred and forty-seven thousand three hundred and twelve threads in my robe, I’ll say there are. Look here.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “At least break it up into chunks. No book should be longer than two hundred and fifty pages, ever. I’m supposed to lug that thing around?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Nineteen people were killed and more than two hundred injured. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “People tend to kill them because they don’t understand they’re relatively harmless. And they don’t reproduce very quickly. That one down there is probably two hundred years old, about as big as they get.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Here at last he showed that he had acquainted himself with Einstein’s theory–up to a point anyway: he gave it four pages out of about two hundred. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z That was when she found out her two hundred dollars was gone. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z One circuit of the cellar at ground level, one on the first gallery, half on the second, and on the two hundred and sixty-seventh morning, daylight in the Decanting Room. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Six feet tall and two hundred pounds, Marshall had permission to take extra “medical” showers be-cause, he explained, he was bothered by a bullet lodged near his shoulder. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But I also know that if I stopped, I’d get trampled by the two hundred pairs of feet that are trudging along behind me, so I only pause for a moment. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Over two hundred miles now lay behind them, and as a group they were whole and intact, but of the three only the cat remained unscathed. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My lungs ached from exertion after the first two hundred meters, but I forced myself to push on. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Off to the right a huge mass of prisoners: two hundred, maybe more. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I figure it must be over two hundred years old now,” he said, and laughed. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The bell in the ceiling kicked itself two hundred times. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have two hundred sixteen rings’ worth of wisdom to convey. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z We later heard that Major Knowlton of the rebels had led two hundred men to Charlestown to assault it; they making their way across the mill-dam. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Several months later saw the return of Francisco the Man, an ancient vagabond who was almost two hundred years old and who frequently passed through Macondo distributing songs that he composed himself. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Hagar stuffed two hundred dollars and seventy-five cents into her purse and headed downtown, still whispering to herself every now and then, “No wonder.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Brandfort is about two hundred fifty miles southwest of Johannesburg, just north of Bloemfontein, in the Free State. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Rubio is over two hundred meters to the east measuring the atmosphere, and Feathers is way too close to the jungle’s edge, holding a rock up to the sun. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The practice had preserved peace for two hundred years. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Only two hundred yards away from our final destination. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z At first I think I must have misremembered it, but how could I misremember a sound I'd heard one hundred, two hundred, five hundred times in my life? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z "But you don't get a company of two hundred horse and horsemen watered and victualed and armed and saddled and started all in a minute. Now: what's our direction? Due North?" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z And Tobias is five foot ten and probably like two hundred pounds, so he could pummel anyone’s opinions into the sidewalk. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z And it wasn’t as tall as Mount Rainier, which loomed over Seattle, about two hundred miles to the north of Cedar. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z On the day the soldiers grabbed Heritage, they seized around two hundred kids. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z TimeStar said, “I’m really from twenty years in the future, Otto. Not two hundred. I’m you at the age of thirty-one.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “I would have rathered you had killed two hundred Jews and not destroyed such valuable assets,” said Hermann Göring, founder of the Gestapo. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z There are four hundred other freshmen in here, two hundred female. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He was six feet three inches tall and weighed over two hundred and thirty pounds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Because he was the only Negro doctor for two hundred miles, Tony’s father delivered babies, gave tonics and cough medicine for head colds, and patched up scratches, cuts, and burns. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z "Is it ... it seems to me that it might be easier for one man to find two hundred than for two hundred to find one." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She said it was a full setting for twelve and worth at least two hundred. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z If her mother tried to boil such a small amount, the pot would be dry long before they could count to two hundred. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re not spending two hundred and fifty dollars on a—” She cuts me off. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z If she lost, even with two hundred and eight dollars. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z My father's viola is over two hundred years old, even older than Germany. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Registration for the revolution is two hundred bucks.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Some had twenty soldiers, some two hundred or two thousand, all slaves they had trained and equipped themselves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z People fought with fists and bricks; soldiers fired on the crowd, killing two and injuring more than two hundred. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z When we arrived in London, we tumbled into three taxis and went clattering across the great city to King’s Cross, where we got on to the train for Newcastle, two hundred miles to the north. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The cavalry horses got within two hundred yards. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He was about to be introduced to two hundred heavily armed kids. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The place was much too small to sleep two hundred men, so most would need to remain outside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z To the left, two hundred yards away, Pettigrew’s men were slowing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “About halfway down the coast of Baja. Maybe two hundred and fifty miles south of San Diego.” The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It has been two hundred years since we have seen an arcanist burned. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Second,” said Mother, “we sign that we agree to pay a war tax of two hundred rubles per person, children included.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z If this state of affairs had lasted for two or three years, we could say that it was unjust; but it lasted for more than two hundred years. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It was heavy and old, and had belonged in Mr. Samowitz’s family for a whole lot longer than two hundred years. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “So here’s our tailwind. The checks range from five dollars to two hundred and fifty, and our new grand total is four thousand seven hundred and sixty-five!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Papa says they have ruled over India for almost two hundred years. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The two hundred piculs he had promised for today—it would be impossible to get. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z All his work since then had culminated in a factory that could irradiate two hundred tons of uranium at a time to produce a half pound of plutonium every two hundred days. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In another two hundred years, from the red race was created the yellow race. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z After a mile or so they arrived at a bizarre encampment, where some two hundred people had gathered to spend the winter living out of their vehicles. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z One hundred . . . one hundred and fifty . . . two hundred killed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We estimated there were fewer than two hundred juvenile offenders serving life without parole for non-homicide offenses. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I peer down at the dunes, still two hundred feet below us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She read between a hundred and eighty and two hundred newspapers a day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And there, at the base of the impregnable anchor, where smooth mesarthium met the stones it had crushed two hundred years ago underneath its awful weight, was the solution to Weep’s problem. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “This is two hundred years old. It might even have come from the last caravan.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It looked like he could shave off a hundred of them by taking the shortcut, so say around two hundred. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In two hundred years it is, as we have found, easy to lose the thread. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Not in a neighborhood that spent two hundred days a year without rain. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Sam tried to count the steps, but after two hundred he lost his reckoning. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Humble, put back six buttons. Ebony, put back ten. Johnny, what’s going on, buddy? You have like two hundred buttons too many!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The thread began on a day two hundred and fifty years ago, when the biology gods, for their own amusement, monkeyed with a gene on a baby’s fifth chromosome. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “And people say that he is two hundred years old, and is able to transform any metal into gold.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With only about two hundred kids in our class, it wasn’t a difficult task to manage, and like I said, Cade Hernandez had the ability to make anyone do whatever he wanted. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “How about two hundred dollars a night? Do you think the twins have that kind of money? Who the hell do you think is paying for it?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z There were more than two hundred people sheltering in the woods, including some wounded who had dragged themselves in. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “All that—to find one error? And there are probably two hundred thousand figures in those tables. Maybe that’s why he didn’t check every figure, Mr. Bowditch.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Governor Faubus has lots of attorneys and the paper says they have more than two hundred witnesses. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Eagle Point was about two hundred and fifty miles away, most of the journey on the freeway. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Now open your books to page two hundred and thirteen,” said Snape, smirking a little, “and read the first two paragraphs on the Cruciatus Curse...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Two hundred and twenty metres long, two hundred wide, ten high. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “The country’s two hundred years old in nineteen seventy-six,” said Kevin. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “That you can just write a check for two hundred and forty billion dollars and fix all the world’s problems?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There were two hundred transportees on that ship, packed into the hold like so many fat hogs on their way to market. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Indeed. We might have come west sooner, you know, but no one had trained a threave hawk in two hundred years. We decided to wait until that had been mastered.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They had both hoped for a baby, and they were thrilled, but pregnancy was dangerous in the nineteenth century About one in every two hundred women died in childbirth. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z His estate is estimated to be worth over two hundred million dollars. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Just before sunset an agent bought her for two hundred and twenty-six dollars. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “I got the Alegría Scholarship for three hundred and fifty dollars; the Kiwanis Club for two hundred and fifty; the Lions Club for two hundred; and the Madrinas Club for two hundred!” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z A hundred or two hundred cities dreaming hot summer-day dreams and cool summer- night dreams... The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The price of the vouchers goes from two hundred dollars to three hundred to five hundred dollars, and still no one is willing to surrender their ticket. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z George Post’s design called for twenty-two trusses, each weighing two hundred tons. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This was long before metal detectors and security checks, and I was carrying my pistol in a holster inside my jacket and the two hundred rounds wrapped around my waist inside my trousers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The flat extended out two hundred yards and then there was a line of heavy weed-crusted rocks before it dropped off to deep water. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Altogether in the last 100 million years it has reversed itself about two hundred times, and we don’t have any real idea why. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It means for a start that even if these beings know we are here and are somehow able to see us in their telescopes, they’re watching light that left Earth two hundred years ago. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The words two hundred million dollars were underlined, but she found a more interesting item. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “I read the papers every day, brother—two hundred of ’em.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We could have been twenty miles off the Brooklyn coast for all we knew, or twenty from Boston, or two hundred from nowhere. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “It only has two hundred and thirty-one members,” he admits. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Obinze handed over two hundred pounds, all in twenty-pound notes that he had taken out of the cash machine over two days. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z For two hundred years it had been building. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z We were in the process of building a massive grassroots campaign network—ultimately two hundred staffers in thirty-seven offices—the largest in the history of the Iowa caucuses. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z "Ground telemetry shows it two hundred meters low of target path." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. da Silva leaves and returns with a store-credit check in the amount of two hundred dollars. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Well, as alone as one could be in the midst of almost two hundred orphans and semiorphans between the ages of one and seventeen. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z So even though it looked like she had two hundred and eight dollars in her lock box, only half of that was money she could honestly call her own. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z I can’t believe so many peoples is there—two hundred fifty thousand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I start in on my orange, which is about two hundred times more edible than the omelet. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z From the dance floor it seemed to be more than it was: one hundred couples, two hundred people, four hundred dancing legs seemed to be a single festive flowery creature, a fabulous millipede. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “Hufflepuff’ll have to lose by at least two hundred points,” said George. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z How many monsters had he killed on that bridge—two hundred? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There were two hundred boys in the dormitory. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Arthur was the heart’s king of a chivalry which had reached its flower perhaps two hundred years before our antiquarian author began to work. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z If they don't, then I go back to the big list and call another hundred, another two hundred people—whatever it takes to see whatever there is to see. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z About two hundred neuroscientists gathered with support from the National Academy of Sciences to confront a new question: What is technology doing to our brains? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Every flower shop in the next town, too, until she had more than two hundred daisies. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z For the first time in twenty-five years he weighed less than two hundred pounds. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ungers were my neighbors on the other side, though their house was at least a hundred yards away from mine on Overlook Road, which put it close to two hundred yards from Charlie’s house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I still had about two hundred dollars of it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Some two hundred animals had been found lying together in a jumble. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Just two hundred and six more items to go. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Today more than two hundred have been identified; many are as much as 500 feet from one side to the other. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The two hundred miles an hour wind had loosed his chains. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “Tonight marks the two hundred and fifth Black Moon Ceremony in the town of Ravenskill,” the Gran began to say. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z "It's nature's magic vegetable. If a person ate nothing but raw onions, he could live to be two hundred years old." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z He sailed to Florida with six hundred soldiers, two hundred horses, and three hundred pigs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “The land area of the planet is a little less than two hundred million square miles. The percentage is ... so small as to be negligible.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He had not known the Union Army was on the move, was within two hundred miles, was even this side of the Potomac, but he nodded and said nothing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The average debt among graduates was two hundred dollars, it said, and the average four-year tab was more than two thousand. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He was tremendous, well over two hundred pounds, with scars on his hands and steel toe-clips on his motorcycle boots. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z As though the Germans had been trying to do in only a few years what the Americans had worked at for nearly two hundred. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Standing there, feeling the eyes of the two hundred Muslims upon me, I heard him make a parable about me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But when he rounded that first bend and did not see the raft, and cleared the next bend two hundred yards further on and did not see the raft, worry took him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The house may be two hundred years old or it may be older, built of brick, with a stone-faced front looking south toward the down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Before Mom left, she gave me two hundred dollars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The next two hundred years were needed to create from the brown race the red race—with no more browns left on the island. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon can't hear someone say good night; it is two hundred thirty-five thousand miles away. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Send them that ship, guaranteed, and U. S. Robots can collect their two hundred thou plus construction costs. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He assigned him to a permanent job at Camp 14’s pig farm, where two hundred men and women raised about eight hundred pigs, along with goats, rabbits, chickens, and a few cows. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Okay, let’s say we only sell the tickets for two hundred,” said X-Ray. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z ‘You defeated, like, two hundred enemies,’ Piper said. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z About two hundred yards away, just across the river, was some sort of military encampment. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In a clearing, two hundred feet from the shed, were three people—a man, a woman, and another, younger woman. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He was thinking: We don’t have two hundred men left. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Suggs, who lived two hundred yards down the road, brought her a warm bowl of peas, as soon as they found out, and a plate of cold bread. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And as we came down the back stretch and hit that final two hundred, I felt my legs start to stiffen. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “More than we have room for. About two hundred and fifty,” Zaman said over his shoulder. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Virginia Tucker, who had ascended to the position of head computer, ran Langley’s entire computing operation of over two hundred women, and supervised Margery Hannah and the other section heads. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And then, without waiting for an answer, "Lord King—fly—Anvard—shut the gates—enemies upon you—Rabadash and two hundred horse." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z There were almost two hundred people gathered there, and four hundred animals—camels, horses, mules, and fowl. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thank you, once again, for agreeing to do this, Jake,” said Professor Garcia as he led the way into a lecture hall with at least two hundred seats. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Neck: “My family has been in this country for over two hundred years. We built this place, fought in every war from the first one to the last one, paid taxes, and voted.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t pay two hundred marks so she could sleep all day.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “B. cepacia thrives best in saliva or phlegm. A cough can travel six feet. A sneeze can travel up to two hundred miles per hour, so don’t let one fly in mixed company.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Just as I had before, I count the two hundred and eighteen steps and open the door. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z That two hundred and eight dollars—it wasn't really hers. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z The TV was certainly doing the best it could, with a blond starlet singing “Hurrah for Hollywood...La-La-La-De-Dum” as two hundred chorus boys lifted her up into the air. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average distance between any two of these civilizations is reckoned to be at least two hundred light-years, which is a great deal more than merely saying it makes it sound. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Then she stoops, speeding toward her prey at two hundred miles an hour, the fastest animal on earth. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z James Garfield served just two hundred days as president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Chief Standing Bear rode the Ferris Wheel in full ceremonial headdress, his two hundred feathers unruffled. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Letting total strangers drive one’s car around all day was a hard thing to ask, but nearly two hundred people turned over their keys to the boycott. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z A notch below six feet four and slightly above two hundred pounds, he was a full head taller than his male contemporaries. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In the midst of a few foreign acres teeming with more than two hundred people, he had succeeded in becoming a recluse. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was called The Golden Child and it was a huge open-air salon through which no less than two hundred bitterns who told the time with a deafening cackling strolled at will. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Comes to two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Last night he had also given me an envelope with two hundred dollars in ten-and twenty-dollar bills to put in my suitcase. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z That night the house, which was used as a meeting place and recreation center by Russian immigrants, was filled with more than two hundred men and boys attending night school. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Nearly fifty people had been killed and two hundred injured. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “I suppose that’s part of why Perrington is so infatuated. She arrived here in a litter bigger than most peasant huts; it was carried here from her home. A distance of almost two hundred miles.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z After two hundred and sixteen rings, I thought I’d seen it all. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z If I came along and helped look after her two toddlers, she said she’d pay me two hundred dollars at the end of the summer and buy me a bus ticket back to Welch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I had not advanced another two hundred yards when, to my inexpressible terror, amazement, and indignation, I again beheld Trabb’s boy approaching. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z She is enormous, two hundred and eight meters long, fifty-six meters high, and only eight years old. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Up he climbed, arm over arm, arm over arm, two hundred feet now above the water, eight hundred feet now to go. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z What can happen is that Babe Ruth could hit .300 the first half of the season and Lou Gehrig only .290, but Ruth could bat two hundred times to Gehrig’s one hundred times. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There were still more than two hundred of them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She energized the organization and helped to increase the membership from twenty-seven thousand to an astonishing two hundred thousand dues-paying members by 1890. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Their hearts were pumping at nearly two hundred beats per minute now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z About one third of South American Indians, Black discovered, have identical or near-identical HLA profiles; for Africans the figure is one in two hundred. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I washed up the breakfast dishes, left his two hundred dollars on the kitchen counter, got into the car, and drove south toward home. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Tats 2: “No, make that two hundred percent, because any guy who shows a girl his nerdy side right away is, like, double sure she’s the one. I mean, birds?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z In 1532 Pizarro and fewer than two hundred men captured Atahualpa, the Inca chief, who had an army of fifty thousand soldiers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I know where I stand. I’ve been out long enough to know. I’m like a ball-player that bats two hundred and thirty and knows he’s no better.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z After reading twelve pages, she looked to the end to see how many more pages there were to go: more than two hundred. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a small force, barely two hundred demigods, but they were well trained and well organized. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z "There aren't nearly as many as you thought. You were just guessing, weren't you, when you said two hundred?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z For the next two hundred years his prolific body of music would stay silent, his career forgotten. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z One thousand three hundred pounds plus another two hundred when he dropped the yellow immediately afterward. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z On the first warm day, approximately two hundred million mosquitoes decided to express this disagreement and came to call. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Dad finally navigated his way to Aunt Maureen’s an hour later, after driving on about seven hundred narrow dirt roads and passing about two hundred cows. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Yeah, you didn’t think, did you? You never do! And now we’re out two hundred and seventy dollars a week because of you.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z From the molten basements of the world, two hundred miles down, it comes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z So far there have been two hundred dead and countless wounded; the hospitals are bursting at the seams. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z And thus it took over two hundred years after his death, in the fourth century bc, for his mantle to be assumed by Cicero. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Between my daddy and me, that’s two hundred years of living that got me all the way to where I am today. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My stomach plummets like I forgot it two hundred meters behind us. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And in those last two hundred yards, in an extraordinary burst of speed, rowing at forty strokes per minute, pounding the water into a froth, Washington passed California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z That’s about two hundred thousand dollars, at the current exchange rate. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Attached at the bottom end of this cable would be a car seating two hundred people. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The wall had towers every two hundred yards, and four great gates as well. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "At least the guilt is not on our hands," Mr. Hoo said, trying to convince himself that a clear conscience was worth two hundred million dollars. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The cops found it and two hundred and fifty dollars in his pockets. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Almost one thousand two hundred of them were warriors. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z When she arrived, she discovered that the ragged breathing of more than two hundred hysterical guests had fogged the glass. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I sat up, feeling like my body weighed two hundred pounds. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She left to supervise the second part of the dig, two hundred yards away, on the other side of the highway. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Year after year it sheds its skin, then eats it, keeping the iron in its system. After two hundred years ...” I tapped the scale against the stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Six thousand two hundred and forty,” I said immediately. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I would like to fly very slowly at two hundred fathoms high and see the fish from above. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The broad spray of fire was advancing up the road at two hundred miles an hour, a rattling hailstorm din of cannon rounds hitting metal and glass. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A textbook example occurred after the eruption in 1980 of Mount St. Helens, in southern Washington State, which inundated more than two hundred square miles with magma, volcanic ash, and mud. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They had not, in life and in death, been married for over two hundred and fifty years for nothing. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z His watch and his two hundred dollars would be of no help out here, where all a man had was what he was born with, or had learned to use. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “There were over two hundred people at the cemetery—over two hundred.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Dad had taken me to the library in the morning to use the copier, and we’d had two hundred fifty copies made. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Hell was and would always be as far as she was concerned, a lake of fire exactly the size of Maycomb, Alabama, surrounded by a brick wall two hundred feet high. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She was in her seventies, a large woman, over two hundred pounds. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z So I have to say, ‘It’s two hundred feet.’ Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But on that Sunday afternoon when our two little temples assembled, perhaps only two hundred Muslims, the Chicagoans welcoming and greeting us Detroiters, I experienced tinglings up my spine as I’ve never had since. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The massacres had happened over two hundred years ago, but the wound they’d made in our cultural history was left raw and festering, like a fault line that may begin trembling again at any moment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z This friend, Jim Hunter, was an English professor in a small university about two hundred and fifty miles away. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We could send out our science, of course, but just think of the wincing at this end when the polite comments arrive two hundred years from now. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds, much of it carried in his chest and shoulders. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Frank and Jim would really get to know one another as they circled the earth more than two hundred times, eating, sleeping, going to the bathroom, working—all within inches of each other. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z More than two hundred of Holm’s fellow athletes signed a petition asking that she be reinstated. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z "And whoever makes the most money wins it all, the whole two hundred million dollars." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The warrior spent years in training so he’d be prepared if the kings ever opened their eyes—all two hundred of them. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Deborah was a substantial woman—about five feet tall and two hundred pounds. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Their first target was a Cherokee town of about two hundred homes and two thousand people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “You can drive a hundred or two hundred miles outside London and not see a single kestrel,” reported another. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was deserted—the French didn’t see an Indian village for two hundred miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She admired a Douglas fir’s complicated bark, followed its grooves to the canopy of branches two hundred feet above. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Nobody had known that two hundred and sixty redcoats were getting into boats, slipping off up the Mystic, seizing Yankee gunpowder, and rowing it back to Castle Island for themselves. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And they burned every fence and house and barn in sight; the railroads they bent up like hairpins—over two hundred miles of’em.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was unwieldy, like two hundred pounds, and so the detailers couldn’t really move it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Estimates ranged as high as two hundred, though such extravagance seems implausible even for a man of his appetite. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Based on interviews with his in-laws, Betanzos estimated that when the Inka showed up in the Qosqo region “more than two hundred” small groups were already there. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The gigantic powder-blue carriage in which they had arrived had been parked two hundred yards from Hagrid’s front door, and the students were climbing back inside it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z With that one bloody exception, we have been living with it successfully for over two hundred years. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For two hundred and eighty dollars a month. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Tipping the scale at well over two hundred pounds, he was stout. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The room’s large plank tables were nearly half full, seating about two hundred students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The post brought many letters in reaction to the book— two hundred in the first six months after publication. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The walls would each be over two hundred feet long, and come together at a slight angle. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The bomb had demolished a group of houses two hundred meters up the street. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In fact, since it was first installed at a cost of two hundred and thirty-six dollars to the Milagro exchequer, that parking meter had received only fourteen dimes, eight nickels, and eleven pennies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was two hundred pounds underweight and chronically tired. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re still at a healthy two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, love. You should feel proud of that. You barely fetched me ten thousand the first time around.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It had over two hundred dollars in it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The police then decided that he be taken to an interrogation center in Johannesburg, a distance of about two hundred miles. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “We piled them up like they were logs, over two hundred, arms and legs sticking out. And we piled brush on top and poured coal oil on.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The two hundred or so patients are lined up on straw mats or cots on the floor, their cries echoing off the cold stone walls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "It's only set on two hundred. I’m not baking anyone, this is just to keep him warm." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Committee for Refugees estimated that approximately two hundred thousand people, or slightly less than a fifth of the total population of the Nuba region, were killed in what it called the Nuba genocide. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “And you know I’m not really into football. Besides, I’ve already checked—that ball is only valued at two hundred and fifty dollars.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z About the lowest tier, two hundred feet below where Sam now stood, there was a battlemented wall enclosing a narrow court. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The barest amenities, on which we rely for opening conversations—Hello, are you there?, from us, followed by Yes, hello, from them—will take two hundred years at least. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was regular jet service to Petersburg, but the sum of my liquid assets amounted to a 1960 Pontiac Star Chief and two hundred dollars in cash, not even enough for one-way airfare. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “We gleaned two hundred sixty-three,” Rand told him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z "And the intercept has to be within two hundred and fourteen meters," Beck said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I heard Mama tell a neighbor that I didn’t read comics, but I knew I had close to two hundred tucked safely away under my bed. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I was beginning to see parallels: The Africans wanted to be free from British rule, just as colonial Americans did two hundred years earlier. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Slowly Dermer s crew realized they were sailing along the border of a cemetery two hundred miles long and forty miles deep. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “That the army hemmed in and machine-gunned three thousand workers and that their bodies were carried off to be thrown into the sea on a train with two hundred cars.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z If there are millions of civilizations distributed more or less randomly through the Galaxy, the distance to the nearest is about two hundred light-years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z During the second half of the season, Ruth could bat .400 and Gehrig only .390, but Ruth could come to bat only a hundred times to Gehrig’s two hundred times at bat. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z To cut what we needed took twenty minutes that felt like two hundred under that sun. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Workers had already laid pipes in Jackson Park for two hundred springwater booths. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I knew most regular humans couldn’t go past two hundred feet without crumpling like an aluminum can. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z There was nearly two hundred of them, all holding some weapon. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It was the first hint in two hundred years–in exactly two hundred years, in fact–that Newton’s laws might not apply all the time everywhere. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z "Yeah, but you made two hundred and eight dollars! You see? You're my little sister, and you're twice as smart as me." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z "Communication would be a great thing. But traversing thirty- two hundred kilometers to Ares 4 is incredibly dangerous. We'd rather he stayed put. If we could talk to him, we'd certainly tell him that." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z With two hundred meters to go, California edged ahead of Washington by inches. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Figure out of two hundred traps I’ll get back half, eventual. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z This is enough to fill two hundred train cars. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Record companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on promotion, trying to get their videos on MTV, and if they can get them broadcast one hundred or two hundred times, they consider themselves very lucky. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z "America's had two hundred and twenty or so years of independence; India's only had about fifty." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In the United States, with a population of two hundred and seventy-five million, that comes to one hundred and thirty-seven thousand intersexuals alive today. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He offers me two hundred and fifty apiece. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The voice on the radio droned on: “February twenty- first—one hundred and forty-one. February twenty-second—seventy- four. February twenty-third—two hundred and six.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z If I could hold on to two hundred dollars over three thousand miles, I could hold on to a ten-dollar bill for a few hours. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “And in this corner, weighing two hundred and ninety-five pounds, from Indian Lake, Pennsylvania...it’s the Earthquake, doing his signature move.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Instead, it was crowded with troops, row after row of them in gray uniforms, two hundred soldiers at least—and every barrel of every gun was pointed directly at them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Do I really want to live for two hundred years? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Lena had been right—Dale had carved more than two hundred of them. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A representative of the Randall plantation bought her for two hundred and ninety-two dollars, in spite of the new blankness behind her eyes, which made her look simple-minded. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Almost two hundred tired, gaunt, downcast men stood holding their parachute packs in a somber and unstirring crowd outside the briefing room, their faces staring blankly in different angles of stunned dejection. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They are still considered outsiders by the tough Scotch-Irish who have farmed the rocks of the valley floor for nearly two hundred years. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On its way to the Mississippi, the combined river then wanders, quite conveniently, within two hundred yards of the central plaza. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They outnumbered us at least two hundred to one. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everything got very quiet. There was two hundred dollars in it, and all of Bunny’s ID. The policeman who’d found it said, ‘I think we’d better contact this boy’s family.’ The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z My living skeleton packed up in a cattle wagon with two hundred desperate others, carted off God knows where, to die of thirst before we get there? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z In Greece the tide was turning, although the Ionian tradition continued in Alexandrian Egypt two hundred years later. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the longest one he had ever seen, with almost two hundred freight cars and a locomotive at either end and a third one in the middle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z What was five dollars to heirs of an estate worth two hundred million? The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Once she had walked two hundred miles through two states before they caught her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Either lost or willed to the king of France in 1738 on the condition that it be locked away for two hundred years. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We were at least two hundred yards above the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z His name is number four on the list of more than two hundred. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps two hundred yards across the small valley, Antelope Peak and Cabresto Mountain were still brightly lit and summery. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A jacked-up French roll with what felt like two hundred bobby pins that started itching as soon as she left the chair. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z The fair occupied over one square mile and filled more than two hundred buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They were married ten days later in the small Chinese city of Yixing, in front of over two hundred people. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I knew he’d punch me in the head and shoulder area about two hundred times. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Over two hundred years later and still remembered. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “For your information, I’ll be fishing all two hundred traps,” I go, bragging on my own idea. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “The alchemist is two hundred years old,” the Englishman had told him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And once we knocked down that first two hundred meters, I was ready to talk. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Dickens would not say anything in two words if he could substitute two hundred. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z During one ten-month period she gave 123 concerts in fifteen different countries, performing a repertoire that included over two hundred songs and arias in German, Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, and other languages. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Papa and more than two hundred other men were imprisoned in the stockade, some for as long as nine months, without a hearing or trial. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “There’s no hope of escaping from Endovier. Your father made sure that each of Endovier’s sentries could shoot a squirrel from two hundred paces away. To attempt to flee is suicide.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "The first in two hundred years. And I'll bring it back to us." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The nearly two hundred sixth graders poured into the library, and the teachers shouted out directions: “Blue group sits here.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z That first day, Kaztauskis walked to the entrance of one of the meatpacking plants, joining a crowd of about two hundred hungry-looking men standing outside for the morning “shape-up.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Whiteman, who was part Indian, was fascinated by Indian lore and had been following the archaeological excitement in Folsom, two hundred miles to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It won’t be enough to cover your payment, two hundred and fifty dollars.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The final count was two hundred fourteen slain, three times as many burned or wounded. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His textbook was first printed in 1472 and went through more than two hundred editions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Bigwig, crouched close to Blackberry in the straw of the cattle shed, leaped to flight at the sound of the shot two hundred yards up the lane. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "You were only going to give me a hundred pounds, weren't you, Robert? But I made him give me two hundred. He's really very generous. Aren't you, Robert?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Two days later the girl found the two hundred and thirty-two dollars that Fay kept in her dresser drawer, and disappeared with the money. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Bringing in a scalp made them two hundred shillings. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “Here’s two hundred rupees, for you to buy something for yourself.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “He is the strongest knight in the King’s bodyguard, and Elfred the Dane is his finest bowman. Elfred can shoot out the eyes of an owl at two hundred paces.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Of course, she says, Á bu, and to come here with her carvings to sell she must walk all the way, more than two hundred kilometers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We sought to attract the widest possible sponsorship and invited some two hundred organizations — white, black, Indian, and Coloured — to send representatives to a planning conference at Tongaat, near Durban, in March of 1954. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Berg was ascending, now at least two hundred feet off the ground, and moving forward, heading for the trees. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z They served two hundred people Christian Brothers Brandy out of an E & J bottle, and E & J Brandy out of a Christian Brothers bottle. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z One day, I was walking up Main Street, caught up in my own little contest of tossing a hedge apple into the air and catching it, hoping to count to two hundred catches without dropping. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z For, although the distance between them was something less than two hundred miles, the train meandered to points far out of the way and stopped for long hours at certain stations during the night. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He opened it, then took out two hundred and seventy dollars, which he gave to X-Ray, along with his sandwich. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Father was wrong about the two or two hundred years I would live, but I’m not bitter. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z After two hundred years without being permitted to own the land they had opened and worked, the tenant farmers rebelled. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Fiona told me that over two hundred journalists from around the world had come to the hospital to see me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Malcolm has never even been in a fight before, even though many paint him to be a violent young man because he’s six feet tall, black, and close to two hundred pounds. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The ornithologist David Sibley says that in Cape May, New Jersey, he once spotted a bird in flight from two hundred yards away and knew, instantly, that it was a ruff, a rare sandpiper. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z And there, parked on the corner maybe two hundred yards away from the house, was a black car with tinted windows. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Over the course of a year, he rode one hundred and fifty to two hundred mounts, compared with as many as one thousand for other top riders. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “That will drown about two hundred thousand people,” Kissinger replied. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There were more than two hundred people in the street, some in cars and some on foot. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A waterfall plunged down it, falling two hundred feet to the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z They were separated from our island by but two hundred yards of water—a channel scarcely sufficient to splash through as refreshment on a summer’s day. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z When the voice announced his draft number—it was two hundred and ninety, he would never go to war—I burst into his room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A tall wooden shack housed the cage elevator, which carried miners one to two hundred feet underground, where they would disperse into various dugouts called rooms, each supported by a single wooden pillar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z This was N. A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility, known as Chad, home to some two hundred and thirty males ages eighteen to twenty-five. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “I don’t know exactly. Around two hundred and fifty dollars, I think.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z We heard that almost two hundred hard-core segregationist students protested our presence by being absent from school on the day of that rally. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Auk XX zipped up the launch pole, accelerating a hundred feet in an instant, climbing to two hundred feet, three hundred feet, hurtling vigorously toward the blue spring sky. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Though precisely the same situation obtained for Jefferson, as well—he owned about two hundred slaves and ten thousand acres, a goodly portion inherited from his father-in-law—Adams never confronted him so directly. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I will have lost two hundred fathoms of good Catalan cardel and the hooks and leaders. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, it was enough to keep everyone in a seat as they pondered what Vogel told them. "... and then mission would conclude with Earth intercept two hundred and eleven days later," he finished up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Ryan and Roamer are there, and about two hundred other kids from school. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z End of two weeks all two hundred traps are fishing and I’m pulling twenty-five a day by hand. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Cheskin set up a blind taste test with two hundred brandy drinkers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He come to the field, pull two ears of corn, let the birds and weevil eat two hundred. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was one of Philadelphia’s top detectives and had been a member of the force for twenty years, during which time he had investigated some two hundred killings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I have a life expectancy between two and two hundred years. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z In the time he will spend in Arles—444 days—he’ll make two hundred paintings and one hundred drawings, a huge number for an artist. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Finally, the monsters turned and fled—about twenty left alive out of two hundred. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Tats 2: “So, two hundred percent into you, fifty percent nerdy, I guess that equals one hundred and fifty percent worthy.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Where more than ten thousand men once worked, there are two hundred. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z "Three thousand, two hundred, and thirty-five kilometers to be exact," Venkat said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The two hundred just wasn't the...main event. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z So four hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters, and so on. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He was in front of about two hundred kids in stadium-style seats. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z About fifteen hundred people were lined up at the foot of the building’s white marble steps, hoping to get one of fewer than two hundred seats available to the public. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There are only about two hundred kouroi in existence, and most have been recovered badly damaged or in fragments from grave sites or archeological digs. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The letter explained that Charles Parker had made arrangements for his cousin to be taken to the state insane asylum two hundred miles away. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “It’s an auditorium. It’s pretty big, seats about two hundred, maybe. They’re all down at the bottom watching some guy on the stage.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Ah, somewhat less than two hundred and fifty, sir, as of yesterday. Countin’ the officers.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All right, after labor and what we put into fertilizer maybe you’ve got two hundred worth of berries? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It feels like two comets have just collided headfirst into each other, and the aftershock of two hundred earthquakes rolls through my chest. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She hears secondhand snippets about his projects from Pilar, and knows he’s trying to develop a super carburetor, one that will get two hundred miles to the gallon. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a woman who invented white crane boxing only two hundred years ago. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z What about the two hundred million dollars, the heirs wanted to know. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Carl to collect two hundred and fifty dollars every six months, June 30 and December 31, with six and a half percent interest figured annually. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Turtles had survived on earth more than two hundred million years—longer than snakes or crocodiles, even. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Did you know that bovines have a typical gestation period of approximately two hundred and eighty-three days?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Back on the line, now, the two hundred. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z A sphere two hundred light-years in radius contains 200,000 suns and perhaps a comparable number of worlds suitable for colonization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As the streetcar made its way along the avenue, the group of strikers chasing the car and throwing stones snowballed to a mob of nearly two hundred. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It is astonishing that this has happened in less than two hundred years and most of it in the last fifty. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Say! This is for two hundred,” he said in stagey surprise. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dad, do you need to take two hundred pictures?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “I mean, there you are, you gotta weigh two hundred pounds, and you got a rifle, and you’re against a squirrel that weighs maybe two or three pounds, and he ain’t got nothing.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Sixty percent of the two hundred young men who were recruited with him as guards were also the sons of intelligence officers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In the course of a week, he might be given between one hundred and two hundred songs by new artists, and every weekend he sits at home, listening to them one after another. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “The moral of the story is that things are a mess in here. We effectively ‘lost’ almost two hundred thousand books when Tolem burned the Larkin ledgers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was six foot two, maybe two hundred and fifty pounds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You’d never know it living here, but Jackson, Mississippi, be filled with two hundred thousand peoples. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Five thousand two hundred and seventy-four,” Rose answered. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z That she had done something, nearly two years ago, when she had freed almost two hundred slaves from the Pirate Lord. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He had ordered out two hundred men, more than half the garrison of Castle Black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She walks heavy, like she weighs two hundred pounds. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, huge. My sister’s friend had had her sweet sixteen at the same place last year. There were like two hundred people there, so I mean it’s a huge place.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z It was three days ago that Harvey had won two hundred francs from me shaking poker dice in the New York Bar. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Cause I know just about everbody on my side a the bridge and plenty a white families too, and that sure don’t add up to be no two hundred thousand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z My ancestors had lived there for generations; in fact, for more than two hundred years. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z More than 1,000 people were arrested and an estimated two hundred were executed. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The indictment charged eleven of us with complicity in over two hundred acts of sabotage aimed at facilitating violent revolution and an armed invasion of the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But then, two hundred years ago, the caravans stopped coming. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “You will both receive Special Awards for Services to the School and — let me see — yes, I think two hundred points apiece for Gryffindor.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z They found the tiger about two hundred yards from the river. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A single bullet is surprisingly heavy: hauling around two hundred is like carrying a small child on one’s back. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were, he thought, no more than two hundred feet away. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z The amounts are for one hundred and one dollars, two hundred and one dollars, occasionally three hundred and one dollars, as Bengalis consider it inauspicious to give round figures. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Spider Kelly taught all his young gentlemen to box like featherweights, no matter whether they weighed one hundred and five or two hundred and five pounds. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The sun beat down, and the humidity was about two hundred percent, even stickier than in Houston. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks—already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Most contained something like two hundred times the levels of lead that would normally be expected to occur. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z X-Ray sold four more tickets to a couple of high school students from Westlake, and just like that, Armpit had another two hundred and seventy dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z He made her take the two hundred and put it back in the secret place. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Over the course of several days, more than two hundred banners were destroyed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Six years later, the tally of geoglyphs in Acre alone had grown to more than two hundred. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The first of a batch of two hundred and fifty embryonic rocket-plane engineers was just passing the eleven hundred metre mark on Rack 3. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z At one end is the bustle of Westchester Avenue, the neighborhood’s main commercial strip, and from there, the block runs about two hundred yards, flanked by trees and twin rows of parked cars. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The men’s locker room—I’ve never seen the women’s—is itself nearly abandoned; though it’s stuffed with a hodgepodge of some two hundred lockers of inmate manufacture, fewer than twenty are actively used. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the same time, the master quarryman was sent to supervise fifty apprentice stone cutters and two hundred and fifty laborers who would work in the Somme valley, an area known for its limestone. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Fury herself would center the first line of battle, flanked by the Lord Steffon and the Stag of the Sea, each of two hundred oars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five. Got that?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z For two full days we worked to make more than two hundred suckers. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z For example; supposing Herbert’s debts to be one hundred and sixty-four pounds four-and-twopence, I would say, “Leave a margin, and put them down at two hundred.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z "It just seemed like two hundred," I said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The quota system has worked for over two hundred years, and although it fluctuates region to region, it makes it crystal clear what each scythe’s responsibility to the world is. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “I told the guy they were no longer for sale, and he offered two hundred a ticket.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Bull reflected on whether dress whites that had been tailored for a one-hundred-ninety-pound man would permit the entry of the same man who now weighed two hundred and twenty pounds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z About two hundred yards ahead of her, her son Lionel was sitting in the stern seat of his father’s dinghy. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit’s ribs filled out—he had put on two hundred pounds in the three months since he had joined Smith—and his manners had improved. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, of the two hundred fifty workers Schindler hired in 1940, only seven were Jews; the rest were Polish gentiles. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The noise was like a wave that kept getting bigger: two hundred seventh graders, all looking for someplace they belonged. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The largest black newspaper, the World, with a circulation of over two hundred thousand, was shut down, its journalists and editor, Percy Qoboza, detained. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought maybe two hundred years later, scientists would find two boy skeletons stuck in the top of that tree. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Golf was a novelty, bringing the cream of society together around a tiny ball that was struck with a stick, just as the Indians had done two hundred years before in these same, places. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Shasta thought they took a long time going past, for though he had been talking and thinking about "two hundred horse" all day, he had not realized how many they really were. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z And as we rounded into the final two hundred meters, I had to dig deep and step it up. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “The other thing is this bag, which contains a representative sample of two hundred years of Rusty-era visual culture. Priceless and irreplaceable artifacts. So which do you want?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Almost two hundred of them, Your Grace. And more than eighty mammoths.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Each scythe must perform a quota of two hundred sixty gleanings per year,” Scythe Faraday told them, “which averages to five per week.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “We have twenty-two universities and colleges with over two hundred thousand students in Dalian,” he explained. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z It had been there two hundred years almost, and its detachment marked it out from the rest of the land, and it belonged to her more than to anyone else. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Pashtun kings ruled this country for almost two hundred and fifty years, Laila, and Tajiks for all of nine months, back in 1929. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Nobody told her not to, so she went out in her purple coat and took a full two hundred and fifty steps away from the house, then sat in a cool patch of grass. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Anthony gave her first public speech to two hundred people at a Daughters of Temperance meeting on March 2, 1849. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z On the two hundred and ninety-seventh day of Edward’s ordeal, a storm came. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z They owed around two hundred dollars that had to be paid right away. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Over two hundred feet from one bank to another, and arching more than sixty feet at its peak, Stonebridge had more stories and legends surrounding it than any other University landmark. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Plus he’s driving me two hundred miles back home. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Well, two hundred came from your old bosses at Essential Baking, Claire and Thomas. And didn’t you work with an old guy, Giancarlo?” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z If I bring ’em out three at a time I can be fishing all two hundred traps in a couple of weeks. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Domishmen are notoriously stubborn, Your Grace. Prince Quentyn’s forebears fought your own for die better part of two hundred years. He will not go without you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The maitre d’ was a small, elegant man who looked up toward a massive, red-faced man who stood six feet four inches tall and weighed over two hundred and twenty pounds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They were now two hundred miles north of their next destination, Mexico City. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn't hang, and two hundred meters into the lap, she rigged and fell back, as if her legs locked up on her and she had to pull up or something. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z There could be two hundred and fifty Woodstock Festivals of viruses sitting on that period—the combined populations of Great Britain and France— and you would never know it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “But he’s got about two hundred people following him on it, so I don’t feel bad outing him.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z In preparation for the fair, he ordered two hundred barrels of whiskey, to be used by his office in the entertainment of dignitaries. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Some jockeys took two hundred or more falls in their careers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We’ve got two hundred and fifty miles of hard traveling to get done. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Estimates vary according to the anticipated price for each freed slave, which ranges between one hundred and two hundred dollars. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Turtle read that again: two hundred million dollars. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z When Mrs. Walton and I get to the register, our items ring up but don’t even hit the full two hundred. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Last I heard, no one’s been deaf for two hundred years. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z |
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