Example sentences of "[adv] [art] few hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I went down a few hundred yards again . |
| 2 | How big is the search space ? perhaps a few hundred states |
| 3 | Although large-scale protest against the visit had been expected , only a few hundred demonstrators gathered outside the hotel , led by the Rev. Ian Paisley , the Democratic Unionist Party MP . |
| 4 | By the time we meet Odd-Knut coming back to find us we are only a few hundred metres from the camp . |
| 5 | During the space of a few hours , a one-metre thickness of ash accumulated in some parts of the town which were only a few hundred metres away from the active vent and many house roofs collapsed under the weight . |
| 6 | For example , the sedimentary rocks that form the top geological layer in much of southern Britain may be only a few hundred metres thick in a few isolated sites . |
| 7 | The ship , large and grey , sat only a few hundred metres from the assault force . |
| 8 | Only a few hundred metres away , the ship was now just a bubbling silver pool . |
| 9 | Only a few hundred metres from them lay Fakrid . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was an amazing frosty morning , with a strange , silent mist hanging only a few hundred feet high . |
| 12 | The CEA 's official reports on the Itteville dump claimed radioactivity levels reached only a few hundred becquerels per cubic metre . |
| 13 | Fujitsu Ltd is preparing to plunge into the massively parallel processing market with a machine that it claims delivers 300 GFLOPS peak using ‘ only a few hundred processors ’ : on current plans , it will be the first major computer manufacturer to enter the market with its own machine rather than one bought in . |
| 14 | Now the USSR catches only a few hundred belugas each year , not only because of enforced catch limits , but because these impressive creatures just are no longer there to be caught in such numbers . |
| 15 | For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Even if it were only a few hundred pounds , five hundred , six , I would n't be standing here sick with worry … |
| 18 | In the afternoon we arrived at the truly beautiful island of Mayero which has no boutiques or roads and only a few hundred inhabitants . |
| 19 | She left the Tube at Chalk Farm and walked — it was only a few hundred yards . |
| 20 | Only a few hundred yards to the north-west of Thiepval is the Ulster Tower , commemorating the soldiers of the 36th ( Ulster ) Division and across the road is the Connaught Cemetery . |
| 21 | A cousin of my granny 's lived only a few hundred yards from us . |
| 22 | Wilkins ' response was to set up another mill only a few hundred yards away , this time using steam power . |
| 23 | He had only a few hundred yards to go as the house he was planning to visit was also in the Vomero but he did not wish to arrive with perspiration on his forehead or dust on his shoes . |
| 24 | We had run for only a few hundred yards . |
| 25 | Then , with only a few hundred yards separating them now from their foes , they set off seawards . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Their dark waters , in places only a few hundred yards across , were met by vertically plunging forest , wreathed in mist , and for the most part deathly quiet . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | On the following night Dougal and Lorton decided against taking the car ; the distance from Lorton 's house to the Newleys ' was only a few hundred yards . |
| 30 | Bishopsgate is locked only a few hundred yards form the Bury Street Office and the explosion blew in a skylight , narrowly missing Jon Staniforth . |