Example sentences of "[prep] a few hundred [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Phanerozoic time ( the time which has elapsed since the beginning of the Cambrian ) there have been three such ice ages , separated by intervals of a few hundred million years when the world enjoyed a more equable climate and lacked extensive polar ice caps . |
| 2 | In its way , it was as funny and arresting as anything from television , but it lacks the scale and presence of a few hundred thousand pounds ' worth of television commercial . |
| 3 | The non-exclusive deal , for a few hundred thousand dollars , gives Convex design rights to Dolphin 's three year old chip-independent SCI technology . |
| 4 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 5 | The future fate of the Universe is not one of humanity 's more pressing problems : on this scale nothing drastic is likely to happen for a few hundred billion years yet . |
| 6 | If the seismically peculiar D ’ layer at the base of the mantle is the source of plumes , as some geophysicists now suspect ( for example , ref. 10 ) , its volume is such that the present plume flux would exhaust it in a few hundred million years , implying that proto-plume material is quickly cycled through the layer . |