cien
hundred ; hundred ; one hundred.
There seems little point in hundreds of cataloguers in separate locations wading through cataloguing codes and classification schemes in order to create a variety of catalogue records for the same work.
There seems little point in hundreds of cataloguers in separate locations wading through cataloguing codes and classification schemes in order to create a variety of catalogue records for the same work.
It features elements of many of the trends in classification theory and practice over the past one hundred years.
a cientos
by the hundreds
Around its shrouded summit the regal birds wheeled by the hundreds, their plangent wails and cackles echoing off the black volcanic slopes.
cien por cien
one hundred percent
Even if a runner does recover after pulling a muscle they will never be one hundred percent healed.
cientos
oodles
scores
This way I do not litter my desk with oodles of photocopies and I can search for key words or phrases electronically within any scanned document.
A killer bacteria resistant to antibiotics is sowing panic across Israel as it sweeps through hospitals leaving scores dead.
cientos de
hundreds of
yards of
There are now a number of degrees of integration: 'SSI' Small Scale Integration (tens of transistors on a single chip); 'MSI' Medium Scale Integration (hundreds of transistors); 'LSI' Large Scale Integration (thousands of transistors); and 'VSLI' (hundreds of thousands of transistors).
Profiles in newspapers and magazines, autograph-signing appearances in bookshops - any device at all that reveals the person behind the book - does far more for an author's readership than yards of reviews or pages of expensive advertisements.
cientos de miles
hundreds of thousands
tens of thousands
Note the automatic telephone exchange, which has hundreds of thousands of such contacts, and yet is reliable.
Tens of thousands of records per week can be handled in this way.
cientos de millones
hundred million
A spider web of metal, sealed in a thin glass container, a wire heated to brilliant glow, in short, the thermionic tube of radio sets is made by the hundred million, tossed about in packages, plugged into sockets - and it works!.
cien veces
hundred-fold
During the same period output increased about a hundred-fold, while prices went down by factors of about ten.
dar cien mil vueltas
beat + Nombre + hands down
win + hands down
There is no contest in the head-to-head battle for information services supremacy and Google, with its information 'now' and 'fast', beats others hands down.
Candy, soda, pizza and other snacks compete with nutritious meals everyday with the junk food variety winning hands down every time.
darle cien mil vueltas a Alguien
knock + spots off + Nombre
They have the potential to knock spots off the private sector and it is about time people in the country realised that.
de menos del -10 por ciento
single digit
single figure
The year saw single digit percentage increases over 1996 prices for monographs and double digit increases for serials.
In the non-fiction categories only one class, that of 'education', reached double figures, and all others were in single figures, so that it is difficult to say what is really important in people's non-fiction reading.
en tanto por ciento
percentage-wise
'What did we increase it by this time, percentage-wise?,' he asked.
más del -10 por ciento
double digit
double figure
The year saw single digit percentage increases over 1996 prices for monographs and double digit increases for serials.
In the non-fiction categories only one class, that of 'education', reached double figures, and all others were in single figures, so that it is difficult to say what is really important in people's non-fiction reading.
más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Going by the idiom 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush' is not likely to be a successful strategy in an increasingly competitive environment.
Número + por ciento
by + factor of + Número
Número + percentage points
During the same period output increased about a hundred-fold, while prices went down by factors of about ten.
The amount of rebate is three percentage points per year for the first five years of the loan.
por ciento
per cent [percent] (%)
It was agreed to withhold supplies from booksellers who offered new books at a discount greater than the 10 per cent usually allowed for cash.
por cientos
by the hundreds
Around its shrouded summit the regal birds wheeled by the hundreds, their plangent wails and cackles echoing off the black volcanic slopes.
por debajo del -10 por ciento
single digit
single figure
The year saw single digit percentage increases over 1996 prices for monographs and double digit increases for serials.
In the non-fiction categories only one class, that of 'education', reached double figures, and all others were in single figures, so that it is difficult to say what is really important in people's non-fiction reading.
por encima del -10 por ciento
double digit
The year saw single digit percentage increases over 1996 prices for monographs and double digit increases for serials.
tanto por ciento
percentage
But those institutions, and I am referring particularly to public libraries, serve a very large percentage of the nation's library users.
tienda de todo a cien
dollar store
She went to the dollar store and bought a whole bunch of stickers and junk (hair bobbles etc) to send to her grandkids.
veinte por ciento
two-tenths
For the above example, the cost per abstract impression has been near two-tenths of a cent.
