Example sentences of "[art] few hundred [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The few hundred Australians on Timor had also contributed to the Japanese conviction that the island was to be re-occupied by the Allies , and the enemy reinforced his garrison with men of the 48 Division in the autumn of 1942 when these forces might have been employed to better effect against the Allies on New Guinea and elsewhere .
2 As the young boy sped off to reassure his worried employer , the two constables walked the few hundred yards from the police house to the Chequers .
3 They walked the few hundred yards to Rivington 's studio in companionable silence .
4 In mid-afternoon , he hove to , dropped anchor and took Mary the few hundred yards to the sports field , basking a little in their ceremonious passage — the work and self-forgetfulness of the day brought out every best quality in her and yet , paradoxically , although at the pitch of her beauty , she herself was more unaware of it than at any other time .
5 Some way past the hotel , still on the few hundred yards of concrete ‘ promenade ’ , I saw a very tall elderly man standing and bending in the middle of the road , apparently looking for something .
6 She smiled and waved , then took her grandfather 's arm to walk the few hundred yards to the church .
7 For some of the people who live here this recent trade boom has meant new found wealth … and young people enjoy the fruits of industry like any of their European counterparts … on the few hundred yards of coastline yet to be swallowed up by industry .
8 Extra staff have been drafted in to take patients the few hundred yards from the hutted wards of Ormskirk Hospital which were originally built to house Canadian forces during World War II .
9 It should be remembered , however , that among the few hundred pulsars detected only a few are binary pulsars ; binary black holes may therefore form a comparably small proportion of all black holes .
10 Try placing the unit under load ( a current of a few hundred mA would be useful ) and see if the voltage drop across R13 increases .
11 Consequently , the surface is peppered with impact craters , many of which date back to within a few hundred Ma of the Moon 's formation .
12 During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less .
13 For files of more than a few hundred records , ½N can be ignored .
14 But anyway , the whole problem we face now is how to do more samples because we 're only looking at intercourse in the cores of , say , a thousand or two thousand year spacing , we 've got to get down to a few hundred year spacing to really see some of the changes in climate that we know have gone on .
15 A large symphony orchestra is even more instructive , since for some works there may be a few hundred musicians on stage playing together .
16 For bond stretches involving heavy atoms , where hω e is of the order of a few hundred cm -1 , hχ e may be of the order of 1 cm -1 or less .
17 A sample of a few hundred census records is often just as useful as a database of several thousands .
18 The company will supply a few hundred grams at a time .
19 Now the USSR catches only a few hundred belugas each year , not only because of enforced catch limits , but because these impressive creatures just are no longer there to be caught in such numbers .
20 In 1979 he published a paper showing that the perception evoked by stimulating the skin or the neural pathway between the skin and the cortex was reported by the subject as occurring a few hundred milliseconds before the cortical ERP was sufficiently complete to generate that perception .
21 A group of Czech teenagers allegedly made a few hundred copies of locally-produced computer software packages and sold them for $10 a piece , after advertising them via direct mail-shots .
22 Treatment can cost anything from a few hundred pounds to up to £15,000 in exceptional circumstances .
23 Just a pump worth a few hundred pounds . ’
24 They begged Rytasha for reimbursement , but none was forthcoming , and for the want of a few hundred pounds the village lost its crop for the year .
25 Yet all houses , even new ones , have defects — some cosmetic , costing a few hundred pounds to make good , others more serious and costly .
26 The alterations may cost a few hundred pounds , but make sure the right pump is used and the wiring done by a professional .
27 The good news is that the most common infestation , by the woodworm — or anobium punctatum or furniture beetle , call it what you will — can be treated , so long as it has not gone too far into the timbers , at a cost of a few hundred pounds .
28 ‘ Before that , they had just sent them into a studio with a few hundred pounds and the records were almost souvenirs of the live side .
29 Even fewer succeed and the average level of compensation in those cases is just a few hundred pounds .
30 For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year .
  Next page