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1  That wasn't made less than a hundred years ago.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
2  You can see that the numbers on this dial run up to a hundred.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
3  Parsons boasted that Victory Mansions alone would display four hundred metres of bunting.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
4  One fell on a crowded film theatre in Stepney, burying several hundred victims among the ruins.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
5  A Floating Fortress, for example, has locked up in it the labour that would build several hundred cargo-ships.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
6  At twelve hundred it was unexpectedly announced that all workers in the Ministry were free till tomorrow morning.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
7  I tell you that the Brotherhood exists, but I cannot tell you whether it numbers a hundred members, or ten million.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
8  Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
9  All this he seemed to see in the large eyes of his mother and his sister, looking up at him through the green water, hundreds of fathoms down and still sinking.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
10  He remembered how once he had been walking down a crowded street when a tremendous shout of hundreds of voices women's voices--had burst from a side-street a little way ahead.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
11  At this moment O'Brien glanced at his wrist-watch, saw that it was nearly eleven hundred, and evidently decided to stay in the Records Department until the Two Minutes Hate was over.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
12  One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
13  Very occasionally some person whom you had believed dead long since would make a ghostly reappearance at some public trial where he would implicate hundreds of others by his testimony before vanishing, this time for ever.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
14  It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the Records Department, where Winston worked, they were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the centre of the hall opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for the Two Minutes Hate.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
15  When he woke, seldom before eleven hundred, with gummed-up eyelids and fiery mouth and a back that seemed to be broken, it would have been impossible even to rise from the horizontal if it had not been for the bottle and teacup placed beside the bed overnight.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
16  If Oceania were to conquer the areas that used once to be known as France and Germany, it would be necessary either to exterminate the inhabitants, a task of great physical difficulty, or to assimilate a population of about a hundred million people, who, so far as technical development goes, are roughly on the Oceanic level.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
17  The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering--a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons--a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting--three hundred million people all with the same face.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
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