Example sentences of "[prep] hundred [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is n't such an irrelevant statement as it may sound — it is a fact that almost all the volcanoes in the world are within a couple of hundred kilometres of the sea . |
| 2 | Our hotel , the Atlantico , overlooked the harbour , and that evening we watched a local single-engined plane repeatedly flying over the harbour as low as a couple of hundred feet above the cranes . |
| 3 | And , because you 'd made a loss , you could , out of your taxed pension , introduce a couple of hundred pounds into the business as a capital in introduction , to keep the business running , and it would n't affect the profit figures at all . |
| 4 | We took in another couple of wraps on the genoa , came round into 30–40ft ( 9–12m ) of water , and wallowed our way slowly southwards once again , a scant couple of hundred yards off the reef . |
| 5 | Lying almost at the outer edge of the village , a couple of hundred yards off the highway , Guruji 's domain is isolated from the rest of the village and has an aura of self-sufficiency . |
| 6 | The bath-house is a couple of hundred yards up the beach . |
| 7 | He took his cue from her and they half ran and half walked the couple of hundred yards to the station , and she led and he followed . |
| 8 | MICHAEL HESELTINE yesterday eclipsed the conference with a sideshow at the Grand Theatre , a couple of hundred yards down the road from where the full conference was taking place . |
| 9 | The stretchers had been brought the couple of hundred yards from the hospital . |
| 10 | Although the little hut at Trebyan was only a couple of hundred yards from the house and the pottery it was over the slope of the hill and hemmed in by gorse and hawthorn : a single large room with a verandah , built of lap boarding , raised on a brick base and set in the side of the hill . |
| 11 | I spent a couple of hundred years on the bottom of a lake once . ’ |
| 12 | In this , a couple of hundred homes in the New York suburb of Ridegewood , New jersey , are receiving viewdata . |
| 13 | But nothing has been decided and there will have to be a successful ceasefire before anything positive can be done … although there are hopes to bring out to hundred children in the next two weeks . |