Example sentences of "a [det] hundred metres [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few hundred metres off-shore we congregate so that Tor can explain the best way of going ashore . |
| 2 | The spray from the falls is so dense that you can not peer into it and you must rely on logic to believe that it is the same water that makes the river that snakes along the gorge a few hundred metres away . |
| 3 | My cousin Ibrahim lived in a two-storey house a few hundred metres away , just beyond the Tel Aviv–Jaffa port railway line . |
| 4 | During the space of a few hours , a one-metre thickness of ash accumulated in some parts of the town which were only a few hundred metres away from the active vent and many house roofs collapsed under the weight . |
| 5 | Only a few hundred metres away , the ship was now just a bubbling silver pool . |
| 6 | An inverted siphon , a few hundred metres across , will be built to carry the sea water under the gorge of the Nahal Besor water course . |