Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [art] [adj] hundred " in BNC.
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1 | We had run for only a few hundred yards . |
2 | Blue whales are no longer hunted , but their numbers were depleted to such an extent in the past that present populations ( perhaps of only a few hundred individuals ) may be too small to recover . |
3 | But mistaken loan decisions or pricing policies swiftly come home to roost in an organisation with a balance sheet of only a few hundred million . |
4 | Today , the kestrel , if not endangered , is certainly one of the world 's rarest birds of prey , with a population of only a few hundred . |
5 | Its bases around the Bay were staffed by a total of only a few hundred men . |
6 | Although the finding of typical , oval , thin-shelled strongyle eggs on faecal examination may be a useful aid to diagnosis , it is important to remember that substantial worm burdens may be associated with faecal egg counts of only a few hundred epg , due either to low fecundity of adult worms or to the presence of many immature parasites . |
7 | Then , with only a few hundred yards separating them now from their foes , they set off seawards . |
8 | And with the Arc such an established part of the racing scene , Paris will be bursting with Britons this weekend , with just a few hundred going on a punting pilgrimage to Dublin . |
9 | When the weather is showery , there is always a grave risk of the cloud base lowering to only a few hundred feet , and this can happen within minutes of the rain starting to fall . |
10 | Management can argue that the plant has been losing money : the unions can point to their ( not always peaceable ) acceptance of previous cost-cutting , which has reduced manning to just a few hundred from the thousands once employed there . |
11 | Cos , probably you do n't realize that , even a cigarette light , if you drew a cigarette , like that , and er and made it glow , it 's visible for quite a few hundred yards in the darkness . |
12 | Er Mr Major pretends it 's his but Mr Patten , if I understand Mr Patten rightly , says the country ca n't afford it , so here again if they ca n't afford it , I certainly ca n't county , county must afford er at least the six hundred and thirty five thousand which is in our proposals er that will be nine , sixty five in a full year , to find nine hundred and twenty extra places . |
13 | Although , in terms of volume or profitability , such discoveries can not hope to make up for the fading glory of the state 's North Slope field , daily Alaskan production might fall by only a few hundred thousand barrels over the next decade , rather than dwindling away , as some had suggested . |