Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [art] few hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 :
2 Wilkins ' response was to set up another mill only a few hundred yards away , this time using steam power .
3 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 .
4 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 !
5 I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years .
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