Well,experts say the expression appears to have been first used in the United States more than one hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

In his first one hundred days in office, President Roosevelt worked with Congress to pass a series of measures.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

He is the first person to be tried on piracy charges in the United States in more than one hundred years.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

It was the first time so many men one hundred thousand had fought against each other in the western world.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

One hundred eighty thousand copies of "Main Street" were sold in the first six months after it was published.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

In his first observations from Mount Wilson, Hubble used a telescope with a mirror one hundred fifty-two centimeters across.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

A recent story in a local agricultural newspaper said the first robot cost one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Fewer than one hundred thousand American troops are in Iraq for the first time since the invasion seven years ago next week.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

The first park to charge a visitor fee was Mount Rainier in the northwestern state of Washington in nineteen hundred and eight.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

In eighteen forty-eight, three hundred women and men gathered in Seneca Falls for the first Women's Rights Convention.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

National Woman's Day was first celebrated in the United States on February twenty eighth, nineteen hundred and nine.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

It was the first in the world. Since then, about one hundred nations have followed that example.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

But he never lived there. John and Abigail Adams became the building's first family in eighteen hundred.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

Last month,Mrs.Obama welcomed almost one hundred local students to the first event in the South Lawn Series.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

She was the first female golfer to score lower than three hundred in a seventy-two hole tournament.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Mattel sold three hundred thousand Barbie dolls in the first year at a price of three dollars.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Breathing in two hundred parts per million of carbon monoxide will cause the first signs of poisoning.

VOA: special.2011.01.25

About two thousand five hundred years ago the first houses appeared on the flat tops of mesas in what is now northern New Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

In its first week it went to sixth on Billboard magazine's top two hundred albums chart.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

On July thirty-first, the ship traveled six hundred and one kilometers in only twenty-four hours.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

The work was first performed in Germany in two thousand to mark two hundred fifty years since the death of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

This week we look at President Obama's first one hundred days in office.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

"In our first concert, we made eleven hundred dollars, which was fantastic.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

About a little over five hundred thousand in sales the first...

VOA: special.2010.04.12