Ironically, though, the doyen of Roman cookery teachers is English writer Diane Seed, author of The Top One Hundred Pasta Sauces.

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College football (American football) is one of the most popular forms of sporting competition in the USA. There are hundreds of college teams, but the top one hundred or so are organised into autonomous conferences under the broad leadership of the NCAA (think UEFA).

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PeerReach also checked its list of what it considers the top one hundred most influential media Twitterers and found that 22% were likely included in the compromised accounts, including the main accounts for the New York Times, CNN, NPR, Reuters, the BBC, and the Guardian.

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Accountants' assertions that recent consolidation has been client-driven were put into question when Britain's One Hundred Group of top-company finance directors expressed concern about it.

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That said, no one pays a few hundred dollars for a set-top box that does not record video.

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One hundred and thirty-seven complaints were originally received about the Top Gear episode.

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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.

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The highlight of another one-sided game was an excellent 87 by Matt Prior, who unselfishly gave away the opportunity to score his first hundred in one-day internationals, but who has now made his mark at the top of the order at the second time of asking.

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