A HUNDRED TIMES

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does a hundred times mean? 

• A HUNDRED TIMES (adverb)
  The adverb A HUNDRED TIMES has 1 sense:

1. by a factor of one hundred

  Familiarity information: A HUNDRED TIMES used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• A HUNDRED TIMES (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By a factor of one hundred

Synonyms:

a hundred times; hundredfold

Context example:

they money increased a hundredfold

 Context examples 

It was a hundred times more difficult than getting up.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were a hundred times more terrible in the grim silence which held them than even when they howled.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"I'll pay you back, Gertrude, a hundred times over," he gulped out, his throat painfully contracted and in his eyes a swift hint of moisture.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In other words, these planets might look as big and bulky as Jupiter, but are roughly a hundred times lighter in terms of mass.

('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)

So do I. If she was a hundred times my child, I couldn't love her more.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That is, I know you must have seen her a hundred times—but are you acquainted?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

By the by, though I have thought of it a hundred times, I have always forgot to ask you what is your favourite complexion in a man.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Yet I have been with good people; far better than you: a hundred times better people; possessed of ideas and views you never entertained in your life: quite more refined and exalted.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He said, if we were governed by our own consent, in the persons of our representatives, he could not imagine of whom we were afraid, or against whom we were to fight; and would hear my opinion, whether a private man’s house might not be better defended by himself, his children, and family, than by half-a-dozen rascals, picked up at a venture in the streets for small wages, who might get a hundred times more by cutting their throats?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

See to the skin tint: it is not to be replaced, for paint as you will, it is not once in a hundred times that it is not either burned too brown in the furnace or else the color will not hold, and you get but a sickly white.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)