Sandra Villegas has made probably more than 100 dresses for Our Lady of Guadalupe Fiesta Dancers over about 25 years. The Topeka-based dance group, the longest-performing group at Fiesta Topeka, has ...
Elite Daily: From Beach Weddings To Brunch, These Pretty Under $100 Dresses Are Perfect For Summer
From Beach Weddings To Brunch, These Pretty Under $100 Dresses Are Perfect For Summer
The Times of Northwest Indiana: Book looks back at '100 Unforgettable Dresses'
"It's not called the '100 Most Beautiful Dresses' or '100 Most Fashionable Dresses.' Three-quarters of these have been stuck in my head my whole life. I didn't need to find the 100 dresses, 75 of them ...
As you note, "percent" means "for every hundred," so there is nothing at all wrong with percent values greater than 100 when discussing proportions, e.g. profits increased by 120%. Like fractions, however, percent values are longer to express than multiples, so for values much greater than 100 you may hear them less frequently:
The flow rate increases 100-fold (one hundred-fold) Would be a more idiomatic way of saying this, however, the questioner asks specifically about the original phrasing. The above Ngram search would suggest that a one hundred has always been less frequently used in written language and as such should probably be avoided. Your other suggestion of by one hundred times is definitely better than a ...
relating to 100 years : marking or beginning a century, with the example "the centurial years 1600 and 1700". But there is a word that is widely used to indicate the range of years or centuries covered by an article or book: history.