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
The graph is something I showed you on the first day of class, that over the last hundred years in particular, but what's shown on this slide is over the last 300 years.
第一节课我就给你们展示过这幅图,该图特别地关注了近一百年的情况,但它涵盖了过去三百多年的历史
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
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