Example sentences of "a few hundred [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Consequently , the surface is peppered with impact craters , many of which date back to within a few hundred Ma of the Moon 's formation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For files of more than a few hundred records , ½N can be ignored . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A large symphony orchestra is even more instructive , since for some works there may be a few hundred musicians on stage playing together . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A sample of a few hundred census records is often just as useful as a database of several thousands . |
| 9 | The company will supply a few hundred grams at a time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Treatment can cost anything from a few hundred pounds to up to £15,000 in exceptional circumstances . |
| 14 | Just a pump worth a few hundred pounds . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yet all houses , even new ones , have defects — some cosmetic , costing a few hundred pounds to make good , others more serious and costly . |
| 17 | The alterations may cost a few hundred pounds , but make sure the right pump is used and the wiring done by a professional . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | Even fewer succeed and the average level of compensation in those cases is just a few hundred pounds . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The British Institute of Recorded Sound conceived the idea at a conference just after the war , and the record companies EMI and Decca backed the scheme with a few hundred pounds . |
| 23 | After receiving the evidence , the insurance company offered Susan a few hundred pounds compensation . |
| 24 | Some were contract ‘ hits ’ for a few hundred pounds each but others were murdered ‘ just for fun ’ . |
| 25 | Premiums start at a few hundred pounds for an indemnity limit of £100,000 and rise to tens of thousands for larger international charities . |
| 26 | There are a number of practical things they can do , however : for a few hundred pounds , they can act as facilitators , helping their employees sort out their child-care problems . ’ |
| 27 | Credit union Savings and loan clubs of people with common bond ( for example , tenants ' association , factory employees ) , cash loaned for particular purpose , not usually more than a few hundred pounds ( but could be £4,000 ) ; usually fixed weekly repayments ; interest paid on what is still owed at rate fixed at start . |
| 28 | Laterally , that is across the grain , they separate or crush quite easily , so that the lateral tensile and compressive strengths are very low , only a few hundred pounds per square inch . |
| 29 | Take a few hundred pounds in local currency and your credit cards which can also be used to draw cash . |
| 30 | BETTING shop manager Sian Collier was stabbed to death after being robbed of a few hundred pounds by a regular punter . |