Example sentences of "few hundred [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time we meet Odd-Knut coming back to find us we are only a few hundred metres from the camp . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He has just bought a neo-classical villa in Hamburg , a few hundred metres from the house where he was born . |
| 4 | The ship , large and grey , sat only a few hundred metres from the assault force . |
| 5 | Only a few hundred metres from them lay Fakrid . |
| 6 | Ian Charlesworth and Arthur Goddard live just a few hundred metres from the busy M40 in the village of Fencot . |
| 7 | The first chain starts off right down in the Antarctic , a few hundred kilometres from the South Pole . |
| 8 | Iraq is after all only a few hundred miles from the Soviet Union 's own ( Muslim-dominated ) southern border . |
| 9 | As he had been invited to dine with Members afterwards , his secretary had booked him into The Howard Hotel , a few hundred yards from Parliament Square on the Victoria Embankment , overlooking the Tower of London to the east and the Houses of Parliament to the west . |
| 10 | The Valley of the Shadow of Death was the steep lane that dropped between darkly overhanging hedgerows a few hundred yards from his home , a stony track where one walked at night whistling . |
| 11 | A cousin of my granny 's lived only a few hundred yards from us . |
| 12 | JUST a few hundred yards from the palace area of Castle Hill stands the Matthias Church . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Conservative insiders gathered in Green 's restaurant in Westminster , a few hundred yards from Conservative Central Office , for dinner and an election session on television sets placed strategically around the room . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Even though the plight of those two climbers should have released me from my fear of calling for help on behalf of others , I 'm still wary unless I come across someone whose legs are a few hundred yards from their body . |
| 16 | He was in the buying department at Schering , the chemical company based a few hundred yards from the sector border in the district of Wedding . |
| 17 | But the Sperrbrecher , unidentified before the raid although moored a few hundred yards from the east jetty ( see diagram p. 41 ) was a strong ship . |
| 18 | The farmers threatened to sue IBM and one , Jack Briscoe , whose farm was only a few hundred yards from the mine entrance , claimed to have lost 40 animals in the past ten years from toxic lead fallout from the mine 's operations . |
| 19 | By the following Tuesday , Geraldine Hogan , whose family lived a few hundred yards from the lake , was spitting up blood . |
| 20 | ‘ I can see I do n't need to explain how this parcel of land is only a few hundred yards from the newly designated railway lines . |
| 21 | The victim , who 's in her twenties , was grabbed as she walked through woodland a few hundred yards from the crowds in Park . |
| 22 | Meanwhile in the supermarket car park only a few hundred yards from the scene of the rape , women expressed their shock at what had happened : |
| 23 | Just a few hundred yards from West Mercia police HQ in Worcester and the first of what 's thought to be 28,000 drivers in this area with no tax disc , is pulled in . |
| 24 | She was on her way home from a party … walking back through the city to her lodgings at Somerville college a few hundred yards from the Memorial . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 27 | The building is only a few hundred yards from Blackfriars head office and many Sainsbury 's staff have become quite attached to the distinctive former cold store . |
| 28 | Oil was once one of Burma 's major industries , producing 800,000 gallons of petroleum a day , now daily production is a few hundred gallons from the old hand-dug wells . |
| 29 | Everyone goes everywhere by car these days , and perhaps in a few hundred years from now our great-great-great grandchildren will be born with hardly any legs at all because they wo n't have any use for them . |