Example sentences of "few hundred [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In late spring , snow surfaces within a few hundred metres of the coast often show a flush of colour , usually pink , green or brownish-yellow , caused by patches of unicellular or colonial algae . |
| 2 | These observations of distance and speed can be coupled with general knowledge of the way a small probe behaves in the gravitational fields of bodies in the Solar System to determine the spacecraft 's position with astonishing accuracy , typically to a few hundred metres at a range of hundreds of millions of kilometres . |
| 3 | The regime of the vine and olive is restricted to a zone varying in width from a few hundred metres under Velebit to 30 km ( 18 miles ) near Zadar . |
| 4 | By the time we meet Odd-Knut coming back to find us we are only a few hundred metres from the camp . |
| 5 | The Platoon Sergeant loads the necessary extinguishers and fire-fighting equipment into the back of a vehicle and they speed off The accident has occurred a few hundred metres from the Turkish depot in which ammunition is stored for the Force . |
| 6 | He has just bought a neo-classical villa in Hamburg , a few hundred metres from the house where he was born . |
| 7 | The ship , large and grey , sat only a few hundred metres from the assault force . |
| 8 | Only a few hundred metres from them lay Fakrid . |
| 9 | Ian Charlesworth and Arthur Goddard live just a few hundred metres from the busy M40 in the village of Fencot . |
| 10 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 11 | A large symphony orchestra is even more instructive , since for some works there may be a few hundred musicians on stage playing together . |
| 12 | Most of the other stars that are visible to the naked eye lie within a few hundred light-years of us . |
| 13 | The company will supply a few hundred grams at a time . |
| 14 | London and Liverpool continued to build flats and from 1933 ( when the Act became widely operative ) many cities built a few hundred flats in large estates : by 1939 Newcastle had built 500 , Leeds nearly 1,000 , Liverpool over 5,000 and Manchester 9,000 ( Ravetz , 1974a ) . |
| 15 | The fish farming industry has grown from a few hundred tonnes of fish in 1980 to 33,000 tonnes per annum in 1990 . |
| 16 | However , the furore which surrounded the release of a few hundred tonnes of intervention beef in England — an amount equivalent to less than a tenth of one per cent of the mountain — suggests the idea of simply selling beef cheaply to the European consumers who paid for it would be a difficult option . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Premiums start at a few hundred pounds for an indemnity limit of £100,000 and rise to tens of thousands for larger international charities . |
| 19 | And so you can really consider that your first year 's cost is not just the cost of the computer but it 's also this extra few hundred pounds for your maintenance contract . |
| 20 | Manufacturers , knowing that an extra few hundred pounds on the price will not be any deterrent , load their cars with all manner of profitable goodies from ten-speaker hi-fi systems to turbo engine-chargers . |
| 21 | He said unionists had voted to send representatives to events in Hong Kong and France , but refused to spend a few hundred pounds on the bilingualism conference in Gweedore . |
| 22 | Treatment can cost anything from a few hundred pounds to up to £15,000 in exceptional circumstances . |
| 23 | It also excluded the cost of elections , for these were a financial problem for the candidate , not for the local association ; in a large county division an election could cost as much as £2,000 , and even an unopposed return in a borough would cost a few hundred pounds to the lucky winner . |
| 24 | Flatbed plotters range in price from a few hundred pounds to several thousand pounds . |
| 25 | But Bouncer , a rare white German Shepherd dog , has been stolen , probably to order and probably worth a few hundred pounds to an unscrupulous dealer . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | BETTING shop manager Sian Collier was stabbed to death after being robbed of a few hundred pounds by a regular punter . |
| 28 | Another dealer owed a few hundred pounds by the director of a firm he had just left , drove one night with some friends to his house , where they flung bricks through every window . |
| 29 | Take a few hundred pounds in local currency and your credit cards which can also be used to draw cash . |
| 30 | Most groups managed to raise a few hundred pounds in funds . |