Example sentences of "[adv] [art] few hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So we 're having to have shutters with a central hinge and we 're fortunate again in York we 've got a wonderful erm prototype , only a few hundred yards away in the Minster . |
| 32 | 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 : |
| 33 | But only a few hundred yards away from homes targetted for eviction … other RAF quarters stand empty . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Sometimes , even on the strictest of diets , allowing only a few hundred calories per day , it seems impossible to shift even a small amount of weight per week . |
| 36 | Now that religious observance was officially discouraged only a few hundred worshippers were present . |
| 37 | Then , around 1700 BC , the Minoans developed from the hieroglyphic script a new syllabic form , today called Linear A. When the Mycenaeans invaded Crete they adapted Linear A to produce a revised form , Linear B. Both scripts have been preserved on clay tablets , most of which are inventories ; however , only a few hundred examples of Linear A exist , whereas there are some thousands of surviving tablets bearing Linear B. |
| 38 | Only a few hundred fires remain and the looting seems to have abated . |
| 39 | Its bases around the Bay were staffed by a total of only a few hundred men . |
| 40 | The whole complex is only a few hundred years old . |
| 41 | We had heard from Werner Meyer that the Toraja custom of burying their dead in high vaults began only a few hundred years ago when Bugis raiding parties from the lowlands began pillaging their burial sites for the booty interred with the corpses , and as recently as 1964 an army general stationed on the island had led his army on similar raids . |
| 42 | Iraq is after all only a few hundred miles from the Soviet Union 's own ( Muslim-dominated ) southern border . |
| 43 | They say they aim to liberate Kuwait — starting with the bombing of civilians in Baghdad and Basra , whilst , only a few hundred miles away , Palestinian people continue to suffer while Israel rejects a three-man UN observer mission ! |
| 44 | Even if you were only a few hundred miles away instead of a few thousand I could not leave her . |
| 45 | On the other hand there are those whose speaking vocabulary contains only a few hundred words of not more than three syllables and their reading vocabulary not many more . |
| 46 | Currently available speech recognition systems typically impose a number of constraints on the user , such as a limited vocabulary ( possibly only a few hundred words ) , speaker dependence ( new users require individual training ) and the use of disconnected speech ( rather than the more natural continuous speech ) . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Ian Charlesworth and Arthur Goddard live just a few hundred metres from the busy M40 in the village of Fencot . |
| 49 | Even fewer succeed and the average level of compensation in those cases is just a few hundred pounds . |
| 50 | Just a few hundred votes in the right places could swing it , and I hear there are some very nice properties available in Bristol West , for instance . |
| 51 | JUST a few hundred yards from the palace area of Castle Hill stands the Matthias Church . |
| 52 | When you get back to the Club Zorna Hotel , the action is still going on , whilst at the International Nightclub just a few hundred yards away , the night 's just beginning — and I went to Yugoslavia thinking it would be restful ! |
| 53 | One British couple living just a few hundred yards away were amazed by the news . |
| 54 | But most were happy to travel just a few hundred yards . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | Just a few hundred yards away and at first , oblivious to the crash , were dozens of visitors to the farms lambing open day . |
| 57 | Just a few hundred yards away and at first , oblivious to the crash , were dozens of visitors to the farms lambing open day . |
| 58 | Just a few hundred yards away , at the site of the former Blackfriars friary , hundreds of skeletons were found under a car park which was being dug up . |
| 59 | He became interested as a boy of six when he discovered a set living just a few hundred yards away from the wooden bungalow in which the family then lived . |
| 60 | 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 . |