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- "Un siècle fait cent années."
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http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/an-annee-jour-journee-matin-matinee-soir-soiree.htm Here's a good explanation.
Roody-Roo
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Maybe it was marked wrong because you omitted a word, as you did in this post.
(You need an article or number before "hundred years" --a hundred or one hundred, or even 100.)
Use "années" when you wish to emphasize the duration of those 100 years, rather than simply how many there are. I don't think we have this concept in English. The following is a great explanation of this and similar duration words:
https://www.thoughtco.com/an-annee-jour-journee-matin-matinee-1371085