• Elsewhere, in state ratifying conventions, the Constitution passed by the narrowest of margins: eighty-nine to seventy-nine in Virginia, thirty to twenty-seven in New York, a hundred and eighty-seven to a hundred and sixty-eight in Massachusetts.

    NEWYORKER: The Commandments

  • It seems like I was just here, but it's been a hundred and seven, eight, nine days or something like that.

    WHITEHOUSE: THE WHITE HOUSE

  • By mid-afternoon, the temperature is a hundred and seven.

    NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

  • In 2009, there were a hundred and seven.

    NEWYORKER: Silver or Lead

  • We had a good seven hundred entrants (including all of you who submitted nature photos -- huh?) but we finally have a massive gallery set up with our top 120 picks.

    ENGADGET: photo contest gallery!

  • So the F-22 had to be stopped at a hundred and eighty-seven airplanes when it was supposed to have seven hundred.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • One study cited by federal health officials estimates that, in 2008, obesity cost the U.S. a hundred and forty-seven billion dollars in health-care charges and resulted in about three hundred thousand deaths.

    NEWYORKER: Snacks for a Fat Planet

  • Such is the demand for natural gas around Fort McMurray that a consortium of companies, including Shell Canada and Imperial Oil, has proposed building a seven-hundred-and-fifty-mile pipeline from the Arctic Ocean through the largely undisturbed wilderness of the Mackenzie River Valley and down into northern Alberta.

    NEWYORKER: Unconventional Crude

  • It seems to have struck a chord with over seven hundred backers calling for it in a wave of excitement since last night.

    FORBES: Maia's Rush For The Finishing Line - Kickstarter And Social Capital

  • By the summer of 2008, Clarium had assets of more than seven billion dollars, a seven-hundred-fold increase in six years.

    NEWYORKER: No Death, No Taxes

  • Although they account for only an estimated three to five per cent of the market, their sales increased a hundred and seventy-seven per cent in 2009, and it was projected that they would eventually account for between twenty-five and fifty per cent of all books sold.

    NEWYORKER: Publish or Perish

  • Suppose you have a roll of the dice that will get you a hundred-dollar bill if you land a seven and nothing otherwise.

    FORBES: Rational Expectations

  • Today, in my hospital, a hundred and fifty-five of our almost seven hundred patients are, as I write this, in intensive care.

    NEWYORKER: The Checklist

  • "The result is that a hundred physical servers turns into seven, " says Steve Kaplan, chief executive of the IT consultancy AccessFlow.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Both counties have a population of roughly seven hundred thousand, similar public-health statistics, and similar percentages of non-English speakers, illegal immigrants, and the unemployed.

    NEWYORKER: The Cost Conundrum

  • And this year they're going to underspend by about three-quarters of a billion pounds, seven hundred million pounds, because the system can't take the extra money.

    BBC: News | BREAKFAST WITH FROST | Conservative Leader, Iain Duncan Smith MP

  • The decision was pragmatic: he was so popular that he handily raised more money than John McCain, ultimately spending a record-breaking seven hundred and forty-five million dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Schmooze or Lose

  • At this time the minimum loan repayment amount was seven hundred dollars a month.

    FORBES: America's Existential Peril: 29 Years Old, In Debt, and Disheartened

  • Since the drag on a human body is approximately seven hundred and eighty times as great in water as in air, swimmers wearing the suits were able to post faster times.

    NEWYORKER: Glory Days

  • Since my current loans involve me repaying seven hundred dollars a month as a minimum for the next fifteen years with only 12 months of forbearance, I have come to the conclusion that I must make at least a wage of twenty dollars an hour simply to cover my basic living expenses in order to simply survive.

    FORBES: America's Existential Peril: 29 Years Old, In Debt, and Disheartened

  • Down the road a hundred meters or so, Six-Seven's vehicle commander and air guards had dismounted and were standing around in the ditch.

    NPR: 'Operation Homecoming': The Writings of War

  • The price of petit sale (a kind of New England boiled dinner), one pear, and a half bottle of Bordeaux is seven hundred francs.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'World War II Writings'

  • When people started posting pictures of the flyer on Reddit.com, the social-news Web site, that number jumped to seven hundred calls and a thousand text messages daily.

    NEWYORKER: The Disconnect

  • Mounted on a thick steel axle, they formed a barbell that weighed three hundred and sixty-seven pounds.

    NEWYORKER: The Strongest Man in the World

  • These are the patients who are in the top one per cent of costs because they were in a car crash that resulted in a hundred thousand dollars in surgery and intensive-care expenses, or had a cancer requiring seven thousand dollars a week for chemo and radiation.

    NEWYORKER: The Hot Spotters

  • The result was a long, shallow aluminum case, measured to fit between the axles and jam-packed with seven hundred and twenty-eight rectangular cells, topped with a fibreglass case.

    NEWYORKER: Green Giant

  • It has eight hundred physicians, seven hundred nurses, and two thousand other medical personnel to care for a population with the lowest median income of any city in the country.

    NEWYORKER: The Checklist

  • Virender Sehwag was dismissed early by Muttiah Muralitharan for 293, seven short of a record third Test hundred.

    BBC: Dhoni leads India to record score

  • Within three years, Facebook grew from a hundred and thirty employees to twenty-five hundred, and from seventy million worldwide users to nearly seven hundred million.

    NEWYORKER: A Woman��s Place

  • When the Bush Administration wanted to bail out Wall Street, it sent up to Capitol Hill a three-page letter saying it needed seven hundred billion dollars and would figure out the details later.

    NEWYORKER: Replay

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