one hundred years ago;  a hundred year previously
 Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
 the hundredth year;  out of luck;  (at the) end of one's rope;  rare chance;  unusually good fortune
 permanent national policy
 100th birthday anniversary
 waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear;  waiting in vain for an unlikely event;  waiting for pigs to fly;  when the sky falls, we shall catch larks
 a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband;  a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband
 century of humiliation (in Chinese history)