Example sentences of "hundreds of [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Renshaw 's , in making non-marzipan , has washed hundreds of tonnes of laetrile down the drain . |
| 2 | It was reported on March 25 that seven government officials from the Taegu environment office had been charged with negligence or forgery after the Doosan Electro-Materials Corp. had released hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste into the Naktog River , the source of drinking water for millions of people . |
| 3 | Every day , trains bring hundreds of tonnes of rubbish to Calvert . |
| 4 | We were sent hundreds of letters of thanks like this one from an eminent diplomat , Sir Ashley Clarke : |
| 5 | The deaths of Becky and Emma , at the age of 17 and the subsequent court case , produced hundreds of letters of sympathy to their parents from across the country . |
| 6 | The Bill , which has now received Royal Assent , will review all the Nature Conservancy Council 's previous work in setting up hundreds of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Scotland . |
| 7 | All too often professional pride or point-scoring results in the production of highly polished papers and presentations , often costing hundreds of pounds of lost chargeable-time , when a simpler approach would have been more than adequate . |
| 8 | DETECTIVES were yesterday investigating a blaze which caused hundreds of pounds of damage to a building firm 's storage base . |
| 9 | WIMBLEDON reserves , the club 's second-string Crazy Gang , were booted out by Southampton after allegedly causing hundreds of pounds of damage to changing rooms . |
| 10 | He went through hundreds of pounds of his mother 's money in a spending spree , buying friends extravagant gifts like computer games and going to amusement arcades . |
| 11 | Meanwhile unrest in Franch has spread to Paris ’ main wholesale food market , where more than 800 French fishermen went on the rampage , smashing stalls and weighing scales and leaving hundreds of pounds of fish strews over the ground before clashing with riot police today . |
| 12 | The fishermen , mostly from Brittany , smashed stalls and weighing scales , crushed shells underfoot and left hundreds of pounds of fish strewn on the ground . |
| 13 | QUALITY control checker Kerrie Ratcliffe would like to say a big thank you to employees at Tuscan who donated hundreds of tins of dog food for a Stoke-on — trent dogs home . |
| 14 | The ‘ island site ’ , located within the manufacturing area of Shires sanitaryware ( formerly a Johnson Brothers unit ) , processes some 600 tins of raw materials a week and delivers hundreds of tins of essential ingredients , ranging from ground flint to felspar , earthenware slip to sanitaryware body , to several factors — Eagle , Mason 's , Barlaston , Johnson Brothers and the adjacent Shires . |
| 15 | Such an expectation would be unreasonable with container ships or with general cargo vessels , where hundreds of bills of lading may have to be issued , and the issuance of final documentation is often possible only after the vessel has departed from the place of shipment . |
| 16 | Some twentieth century innovations are allowed but hundreds of members of the American Civil War Society gathered at Eastnor Castle for a weekend steeped in history , right down to the accommodation . |
| 17 | Hundreds of members of the 100,000-strong party backed Mr Alton and threatened to sever their links with the party . |
| 18 | Hundreds of members of the Women 's Institute have been lobbying MPs at Westminster today over their fears about food irradiation . |
| 19 | She conjured wonderful colourful pictures for a boy to see with his mind 's eye , her voice pure and confident , her memory pouring out hundreds of lines of poetry in a faultless , almost hypnotic flow . |
| 20 | Hundreds of crates of beer were stacked against three of the whitewashed walls but the fourth , and longest , wall was hidden behind rows of wooden racks lined with bottles of both local and imported wines . |
| 21 | ‘ Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths ? ’ |
| 22 | The area was crawling with caterpillars , upon which vast flocks of birds — including the beautiful straw-necked ibises — descended , and , in their wake , hundreds of hawks of three or four different species hovered , attracted by the sudden abundance of prey . |
| 23 | They piled hundreds of lengths of Brasilian mahogany outside the gates . |
| 24 | He turned from the fire to regard her , and Grainne saw the leaping flames reflected in his eyes , hundreds of pinpoints of light . |
| 25 | All I get supplied are empty bottles and hundreds of boxes of bandages . ’ |
| 26 | It will be difficult to find the exact one as we have confiscated so many ; , but this soldier who is accompanying you will take you to a warehouse where you will find hundreds of bicycles of all descriptions . |
| 27 | City engineers have leaked to the press their previously private warnings to the city of hundreds of signs of hazardous corrosion on four big bridges that span the East river : the Brooklyn , Manhattan , Queensboro and Williamsburg bridges . |
| 28 | There are hundreds of instances of this kind of pose created by many different choreographers . |
| 29 | This range , although covered by many hundreds of metres of water for most of its length , breaks surface in a few places to form the chain of apparently unconnected volcanic islands . |
| 30 | The researchers concede , though , that none of these explanations seems adequate to account for setts containing hundreds of metres of tunnels and dozens of chambers , which are ‘ amongst the largest and most enduring artefacts constructed by any non-human mammal species . ’ |