bleedingcool: 100 Bullets Omnibus Vol 2 Misses Out Brother Lono 8 Issues
Well, now that was a fast Rich Twitch. Earlier today, Bleeding Cool reported that copies of the 100 Bullets Omnibus Vol 2 were coming in hot to comic book stores, missing eight promised issues. DC ...
And the usage always seems to involve a number between 100 and 200: "a buck fifty" and so forth (the term seems to be wedded to the indefinite article: "a buck something ").
That's how it reads on Amazon and on Lunar Distribution as well. 100 Bullets was published by DC Comics Vertigo between 1999 and 2019, and then had a revival eight-issue mini-series in 2013, Brother ...
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 ...
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:
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.