Example sentences of "[verb] hundreds of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The houses around them , built hundreds of years ago , now derelict and unkempt , huddled close together , blocking out the summer sky .
2 What clouds the issue is that I have caught hundreds of bream , of all sizes , and from a variety of waters , when the surface of the water has not been broken once by a fish .
3 High-end drawing packages ( which cost hundreds of pounds ) are worth the expense if you work regularly with images and need to create complex or technical drawings .
4 Her surprise stemmed from the fact she had walked out on him two years earlier , sworn her friends to secrecy and moved hundreds of miles to make a new life for herself .
5 In the eight years she 's been showing the plants she 's won hundreds of awards .
6 These models , some of which involve hundreds of equations , are then used to simulate the effects of different policies .
7 Officers from the RSPCA say hundreds of animals suffered at the hands of a callous and inept man .
8 And despite a price tag of over £26,000 , Rover say hundreds of orders have already been placed .
9 By now it contains hundreds of names from all over the world .
10 The enormous necropolis is adjacent and contains hundreds of tombs cut down into the tufa over a distance of two miles .
11 The T.V. contains hundreds of parts which all belong to the same set .
12 The scalding flood swamped hundreds of homes and many people were plucked to safety by helicopter .
13 Tony was the last tragic victim of the disaster which caught hundreds of soccer fans behind fences during the game between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool .
14 Steven , of Borehamwood , Herts , beat hundreds of children to win the award , launched by the Patients Aid Association to mark the Queen 's 40th anniversary .
15 ‘ Almost everyone I met had lost at least one relative , some had lost several , and families had been scattered hundreds of miles apart , ’ said Mr Thomas .
16 HOW do you cope with training when your staff are scattered hundreds of miles apart across 140 different locations ?
17 Emptying hundreds of bins and walking about 20 miles .
18 Afterwards , a huge black cloud of acrid smoke rose hundreds of feet above the town .
19 Through this mini trespass the RA are hoping to encourage hundreds of members to stage a mass trespass on the moor on September 29 , as part of Forbidden Britain Day — an annual event with nationwide protest walks calling for greater access to the countryside .
20 It has hundreds of drawings , engravings and photographs .
21 First published in 1962 and now in its 4th edition ( 1980 ) , this fulfils a role as a reference text rather better than a student text , in that it has hundreds of references but no problems .
22 As Sunday Life revealed two weeks ago , McGlinchey worked for over a year as a sales representative for Cornhill , which has hundreds of RUC men as clients .
23 The company now intends shipping production code for the first time this week , saying it has hundreds of orders .
24 It intends shipping production code for the first time this week , saying it has hundreds of orders .
25 In hard rock the edge soon became dull , and the drilling of one sufficient hole could require the use of quite a few of these drills which had to be carried by the miner to his place of work , even though that might entail climbing hundreds of feet of pit ladder .
26 Employing hundreds of people , it was at the centre of the textile trade in the Stroud valleys .
27 And we expect hundreds of people queueing today in person . ’
28 It floats in salt water and can be carried hundreds of miles by strong currents .
29 The water converged on Heymouth , having dropped hundreds of feet in its half-mile race to the sea , at a velocity of over twenty miles per hour .
30 Mr Crowley has already spent his allotted time in Hartlepool where he was amazed to find hundreds of yachts moored in the marina .
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