Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] few hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The total size of the claims resulting from such an incident might well be enormous , even though the computer program itself may have only cost a few hundred pounds . |
2 | Erm and there are loads of other ones some only come every few hundred years . |
3 | £50000 does not go very far in TV , except on one or two small regional stations ; it is quite difficult , as the cigarette companies find , to spend £1 million plus on a brand without using TV at all : if you only have a few hundred pounds to spend there are few press media in which you can consider full pages or even moderately large sizes . |
4 | However , since the grant only purchased a few hundred books , these tended to " disappear once distributed around the shelves . |
5 | This argument , that the Scottish party should elect its own leader , raise its own funds , hire and fire its own staff and sit in a Westminster coalition with the English and Welsh Labour Party , is something which acutely interests a few hundred activists , but not many MPs , and one guesses , precious few voters . |
6 | If he did , he would have to abandon the Volvo , always parked a few hundred yards away , and escape on foot . |
7 | The novel he was supposed to be working on hardly progressed a few hundred words in a week . |
8 | American helicopters hovered near the Panamanian Defence Forces headquarters , and US soldiers in combat gear took up positions a few hundred yards away to block a road leading to the canal . |
9 | Aye , and lassies who could n't walk a few hundred yards without getting themselves lost . |
10 | A group of Czech teenagers allegedly made a few hundred copies of locally-produced computer software packages and sold them for $10 a piece , after advertising them via direct mail-shots . |